Stormy Daniel has taunted Donald Trump about “actual males” taking the witness stand, only a few hours after she completed testifying towards the previous president in his Manhattan hush cash trial.

“Actual males reply to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in courtroom. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” she wrote on X.

Her feedback got here after Mr Trump blasted the decide within the case for refusing a request by his attorneys for a mistrial based mostly on Ms Daniels’ testimony.

The previous president’s legal professional Todd Blanche moved for a mistrial on Thursday, arguing that Ms Daniel had modified her story and been allowed to testify about issues that had been irrelevant to the case.

He additionally requested the decide to waive Mr Trump’s gag order to permit him to reply to her testimony publicly. Decide Juan Merchan denied each requests.

“My concern is not only with defending Ms Daniels or a witness who has already testified. My concern is defending the integrity of the proceedings as an entire,” Decide Merchan stated of the gag order request.

Mr Trump slammed the decide’s resolution on Thursday, calling it “a shame.”

“I’m harmless and I’m being held on this courtroom with a corrupt decide,” he advised reporters on the courthouse.

However Ms Daniels argued he ought to reply to her testimony by taking the stand. It’s at the moment unclear whether or not Mr Trump will testify as a part of his protection. If he had been to testify, he would open himself as much as cross-examination by prosecutors.

Throughout her testimony, Ms Daniels was grilled by Mr Trump’s legal professional Susan Necheles over the $130,000 nondisclosure settlement she signed with Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen close to the shut of the 2016 election.

The cost is on the centre of Mr Trump’s trial, wherein he’s accused of falsifying enterprise information in an alleged bid to cowl up the hush cash cost to Ms Daniels to make sure her silence over an extramarital affair she alleges they’d a decade earlier.

Mr Trump has denied the affair and all the fees towards him.

Ms Necheles tried to poke holes in Ms Daniels’ now-sworn statements about an alleged sexual encounter she claims she had with Mr Trump in a Lake Tahoe lodge room in 2006, together with her having stated in a 2011 interview that she and Mr Trump had dinner collectively – whereas she now maintains they by no means really ate.

“I had dinner within the room, however we by no means acquired any meals, and we by no means ate something,” Ms Daniels stated. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger famous on re-direct examination that the article with the 2011 interview stated the piece had been “calmly edited.”

Ms Necheles additionally sought to dispute Ms Daniels’ claims that she was scared when she noticed Mr Trump ready for her in mattress in a T-shirt and boxers after she acquired out of the toilet, suggesting that the looks of Mr Trump in his underwear asking for intercourse shouldn’t have shocked her as a result of she can be used to seeing bare males in her line of labor.

“You’ve acted and had intercourse in over 200 porn motion pictures, proper?” she stated. “And there are bare males and bare girls having intercourse in these motion pictures? … However based on you, seeing a person sitting on a mattress in a T-shirt and boxer shorts was so upsetting you grew to become light-headed and nearly fainted?”

“Whenever you’re not anticipating a person twice your age, sure,” Ms Daniels fired again.

In one other trade, Ms Necheles sought to discredit Ms Daniels’ testimony by suggesting that her story concerning the alleged sexual encounter was totally made up.

“This was your profession for over 20 years, writing, performing, and directing intercourse movies,” Ms Necheles requested. “You have got loads of expertise making phony tales about intercourse seem actual, proper?”

However Ms Daniels appeared unflappable within the face of the grilling, firing quips again at Ms Necheles.

“Wow,” Ms Daniel replied, pausing to snigger.

“That’s not how I’d put it,” she stated. “The intercourse in these movies may be very a lot actual – identical to in that lodge room.”

She added: “If that story had been unfaithful, I’d have written it to be rather a lot higher.”