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Chris McGreal in New York

Stormy Daniels testimony was lurid and powerful – but Trump voters don’t care

Donald Trump watches as Stormy Daniels is questioned by defense attorney Susan Necheles
Donald Trump watches as Stormy Daniels is questioned by defense attorney Susan Necheles in court in New York on Thursday. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Stormy Daniels may have regarded sex with Donald Trump as brief, unimaginative and regrettable but the porn star gripped the nation with a salacious and lengthy retelling of the encounter to a New York court this week.

Daniels’s humiliating testimony in Trump’s fraud trial infuriated the former president who glowered from a few feet away. But her account only confirmed what most Americans already knew about a man widely regarded as a sexual predator and appeared unlikely to change many votes in November’s presidential election.

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