The last several days have finally seen bombshell testimony from the infamous Stormy Daniels in Donald Trump’s ongoing Manhattan Hush Money criminal case.
Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, allegedly engaged in an extramarital, sexual affair with Donald Trump in a hotel room back in 2006, a decade before the then-New York real estate mogul and reality TV star would go on to run for and ultimately secure the United States presidency.
Fast forward to 2016, when Trump was in the throes of his first presidential campaign, and Donald’s then-personal attorney and self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen cut Daniels a check to the tune of $130,000 to buy her silence about the alleged Trump affair in an effort to protect Donald’s attempts to grab hold of the highest office in the country.
This scheme eventually caught up to the now-disgraced ex-president, who is now charged with 34 state felony charges related to falsifying business documents in an effort to cover up the payments made to Daniels — all of which Donald has, of course, denied and formally pleaded not guilty to.
Daniels finally took to the witness stand in a Manhattan criminal court, where she testified: “It was really hard to get my shoes because my hands were shaking so hard. He said: ‘Oh, it was great. Let’s get together again, honeybunch.'”
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As expected, there has been a lot to unpack throughout Daniels’ damning testimony. However, it was that particular “Honeybunch” pet name that caught the attention of the former president’s estranged niece, Mary Trump.
Donald’s niece, psychologist Mary Trump, found this term of endearment, allegedly used by her uncle for his mistress, especially jarring, and she didn’t hold back when it came to dishing on the reason why.
Just mere hours after Stormy testified to this detail of her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump, Mary issued a lengthy and fiery public response in her Substack newsletter, “The Good In Us.”
I can reveal this to you now,” Mary Trump wrote. “‘Honeybunch’ is my family’s preferred term of endearment.”
“Can’t believe he called her this.”
In her newsletter, Mary goes on to sink her teeth into Daniels’ disturbing revelation that Donald compared her, a literal porn star, to his eldest daughter Ivanka.
On the witness stand, Daniels testified that Trump told her, “You remind me of my daughter,” in what was allegedly supposed to be a compliment to her intelligence. Stormy also told the court that the then-real estate mogul would repeatedly cut her off when she attempted to speak, prompting her to ask, “Are you always this rude? Are you always this arrogant and pompous?”
In her newsletter earlier this week, Mary wrote, “No one knows how Donald came to be who he is better than his own family. And unfortunately, most of them remain silent out of loyalty or fear. I’m not hindered by either of those.”
The psychologist and Trump family member went on to point to Donald’s alleged sibling rivalry with his older brother, Mary’s father Freddy, which forced her uncle Donald to “become his own cheerleader” in his neverending efforts to earn the family patriarch’s approval.
“He began to believe his own hype,” she wrote, “even as he paradoxically suspected on a very deep level that nobody else did.”
Among the hype that only exists in Donald’s head, according to Mary, is the notion that Donald ever actually earned the respect of his own father.
“Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my grandfather started that Donald is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary,” Mary writes. “Because facing the truth — that he is none of those things — is too terrifying for him to contemplate.”
She goes on to note that she finds Daniels’ testimony to be extremely credible, due to the small details, like the “Honeybunch” pet name that that is so popular among the Trump family.
“My biggest takeaway from her testimony is that Stormy Daniels appeared credible,” she wrote. “Based on some of what she shared under questioning by the prosecutor, I suspect much of it was incredibly humiliating for Donald as Daniels shared some intimate details.”
“Every lie that is exposed reveals Donald to be the small, insecure man he always has been,” Mary Trump concluded.
“The truth about Donald must be told, and I am the only Trump willing to tell it.”
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