'SNL Skit, Right?' MSNBC Analysts Add Paranormal Spin to Stormy Daniels' Trump Trial Testimony

Doug P. | 9:15 PM on May 09, 2024

Thursday's testimony from Stormy Daniels at the New York City trial of Donald Trump involving the most overblown charges for a financial recordkeeping dispute was followed by an MSNBC report that added a new wrinkle to the proceedings in regards to what the witness now does for a living:

Hold up. She "communicates with dead people?"
— Nick Carroll (@LibertyAndTech) May 9, 2024

The trial took a turn for the paranormal amid new info about Daniels (or new to us anyway), and the MSNBC legal team of what many have dubbed as a reboot of Simon and Garfunkel had a somewhat surreal segment describing the day's proceedings:

MSNBC: "This was very much what I call a 'nuts and sluts' defense. Stormy Daniels now claims that she is a medium and that she communicates with dead people."pic.twitter.com/KWNucSXcjo
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 9, 2024

"This was very much what I call a 'nuts and sluts' defense."

WATCH: @lawofruby breaks down the feeling inside the courtroom during the rest of Stormy Daniels' testimony and the strategy the defense chose to use against her. pic.twitter.com/YwI0JtSlw9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 9, 2024

Wow, that was certainly... something else.

LAWFARE: MSNBC is normalizing the paranormal powers Stormy Daniels claims to have. The porn star is a medium who is able to communicate with dead people. Her boyfriend was possessed by evil spirits she was able to extricate. pic.twitter.com/O5tqN2K7WR
— @amuse (@amuse) May 10, 2024