Necheles seizes on more inconsistencies: isn't this is a totally different story from the one you told in 2011? I believe this is about the InTouch magazine phone interview.

This has been a constant strategy in the cross—pinpoint each time Daniels' story changed, and exploit it.

'Please allow the witness to answer,' Merchan cuts in, as Necheles peppers Daniels with question after question, each picking a different nit in her seemingly conflicting stories.

Two differences: in 2011, Daniels said Trump personally invited her and she said yes, but later, she said it was his bodyguard and said 'fuck no.'

It was a frivolous interview, an entertaining retelling of events, Daniels says, and Necheles sees an opening: So you were lying?

Now to another inconsistency: dinner vs no dinner.

Necheles reads Daniels' statement on Kimmel, in which she said 'I'm very food motivated,' and Daniels just giggles to herself and her food-driven actions.

But Necheles says that Daniels said she had eaten at the hotel in 2011.

Apparently in 2011, Daniels had said 'during dinner' which she now says meant 'during dinner time,' though much to her chagrin, dinner was never served.

I would like to object to this line of questioning, because I am now getting hungry.

Even 18 years later, Daniels still seems genuinely annoyed that she never got to eat dinner that night.

We had 'dinner time' in the room but not 'dinner,' Daniels says.

Your words don't mean what you said, Necheles says bitingly.

Objection—sustained.

Back in time again, to Daniels' method of transportation to the hotel suite: first on foot (in heels), then car, but in 2011 Daniels said only on foot.

Another seeming inconsistency, but I wonder how this is playing with the jury. Memories can be fuzzy for traumatic events.

Necheles goes back to her dinner vs. no dinner line of attack, and Daniels repeats the same answer, this time more exhaustedly.

The defense strategy seems clear: Daniels is an unreliable witness at best—and a vindictive, money-motivated liar at worst.

Necheles' sole reliance right now on the 2011 InTouch interview seems to suggest that it's the outlier, while Daniels' retelling of that night ever since has remained consistent.

Tyler McBrien 2021 Cohen podcast @ 45:47: 'Q: You ended up eating dinner in the room? A: No fuck that, he still owes me dinner, I sat there for 3 and 1/2 hours and didn't even get a snack.'