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Why UT-Austin and Texas A&M students demand their schools divest from Israel
Protesting students and staff want to draw attention to public university investments in companies supporting Israel, even if divestment is unlikely in Texas.
Feds investigate another Texas school district for its gender identity mandate
Katy ISD’s board voted this past fall to require staff to notify parents if their child wants to use a different pronoun or identifies as a different gender.
California Gov Gavin Newsom roasted over video promoting state’s ‘record’ tourism: ‘Smoke and mirrors’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has his head in the clouds – at least that’s the case with a new video he posted to tout what he says are “record-breaking tourism numbers” in the state. In the video, Newsom appears to be suspended high in the air above the Golden Gate Bridge, leading some online to speculate if Newsom is, in fact, Spider-Man. While others were quick to point out the many issues plaguing California, like crime, homelessness and sky-high prices. Newsom began the video with, “So, I’m up here on the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. A testament to America’s greatness … California’s greatness and we couldn’t be more proud.” He continued, “Over $150 billion of tourism spent, unprecedented in our state’s history. If you haven’t had the chance to see the magnificence, the beauty of our great state, it’s time to visit California.” NEWSOM’S ‘FAILURE’ TO ‘DO ANYTHING’ TO STOP UNIVERSITY VIOLENCE SLAMMED BY LAWMAKERS Critics quickly took to X to share their reaction to the governor’s video. “Is the @CAgovernor also Spider-Man?” one person asked. “You are calling the millions of illegals invading California tourists?” one user wrote. “Weird way to celebrate inflation, but do you bud,” another user wrote. “Meanwhile, CA residency just hit an all time low. People can’t leave CA fast enough,” another comment read. “Having illegals cross your border by the thousands doesn’t count as ‘Tourism’….,” another user commented. CALIFORNIA’S POPULATION HAS GROWN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2019, ACCORDING TO GOVERNOR’S REPORT On Sunday, Newsom’s office released new data that showed California continues to have the largest market share of tourism in the nation, with travel spending in the state reaching an all-time record high of $150.4 billion last year, which surpassed the previous record $144.9 billion spent in 2019. “From our world-renowned coastline, to the world’s tallest trees, to our iconic cities and theme parks, California is the nation’s coming attraction. Visitors from all over the world are coming here to experience the wonder of the Golden State, boosting our economy and creating good-paying jobs for years to come,” Newsom said. California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones disagreed with Newsom’s math. “Newsom touts a record-breaking $150.4 billion in tourism spending for 2023, supposedly surpassing the pre-pandemic figure of $144.9 billion in 2019. However, when adjusted for inflation, tourism spending would have to be a staggering $173 billion to beat the 2019 number,” Jones told Fox News Digital. Jones said everything costs more in California thanks to “Gavinomics.” “It’s more smoke and mirrors as usual with this governor. Rather than chasing headlines with deceiving statistics, he should spend some time actually fixing California and our multiple crises like homelessness, affordability and crime,” Jones said. California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher shared a similar sentiment. “These numbers are as phony as Gavin’s baseball career – when you factor in inflation (like normal people have to), tourism is down 14% on his watch. Crime and homelessness have become the California brand, and no amount of spin from Newsom will change that,” Gallagher told Fox News Digital in a statement. In the state’s new data, Visit California CEO Caroline Beteta said California tourism is back where it belongs and is setting records and providing for the workers, business owners and all Californians who depend on the travel industry as a cornerstone of the state’s economy. “The industry has once again proved its ability to recover from any challenge, whether it be economic or environmental. California continues to be the largest, most diverse and most resilient tourism economy in the United States,” Beteta said. SI MODEL LEAVING CA FOR TN DUE TO HOMELESSNESS, ‘DIRTY’ STREETS, TAXES AND MORE According to Visit California, the new travel spending record generated $12.7 billion in state and local tax revenue by visitors in 2023, marking a 3% increase over 2019. However, tourists spent $37.7 billion in the Bay Area in 2023, down slightly from $39 billion spent in 2019. “It would be great if the governor put as much energy into improving California as he does into taking unearned victory laps with misleading statistics. Maybe then we’d actually break a record,” Gallagher added. CALIFORNIA GOP LEADERS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER STATE CAN’T ACCOUNT FOR $24B SPENT ON HOMELESS CRISIS The state statistics also showed that tourism created 64,900 new jobs in 2023, bringing total industry employment to 1,155,000. In addition to visiting the state, more people are moving to California, according to Newsom, who also said the state’s population is increasing for the first time since the pandemic. Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office for comment but has not yet heard back.
‘How much black money have they received?’: PM Modi questions Rahul Gandhi’s ‘sudden silence’ on Adani, Ambani
Further, in a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi and his Congress colleague and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said one ‘R’ is looting Telangana and passing on the loot to another ‘R’ in Delhi.
Republicans keep pressure on NPR and controversial CEO amid political bias scandal
Congressional Republicans are applying pressure to both National Public Broadcasting (NPR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) amid NPR’s bias scandal. A series of letters to both entities have been sent from both House and Senate Republicans, requesting action to ensure NPR’s integrity and address the allegations of ideological bias made by senior editor Uri Berliner, who has since left the organization. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce requested NPR CEO Katherine Maher to appear Wednesday for an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the allegations. “The Committee has concerns about the direction in which NPR may be headed under past and present leadership,” Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., wrote. FLIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITHOUT IDS TARGETED IN FAA BILL AS DEADLINE LOOMS However, a spokesperson for NPR told Fox News Digital in a statement that Maher would not be joining the subcommittee to testify. She is willing to testify on a different date, the spokesperson added. “NPR respects the committee and its request and has offered to testify on a date in the near future that works for the committee and Maher,” the spokesperson said. “NPR has a previously scheduled and publicly posted all-day meeting of its board of directors on that date, Maher’s first such meeting since she joined NPR just six weeks ago. These meetings are scheduled more than a year in advance. WHITE HOUSE LOOKS TO CONVINCE AMERICANS OF ‘BIDENOMICS’ WITH KAMALA HARRIS TOUR “Maher is therefore unable to attend this week’s hearing and has communicated that to the committee and proposed alternate dates. Maher will provide written testimony in her absence,” the spokesperson continued. A spokesperson for the House Energy and Commerce committee told Fox News Digital Maher’s choice not to testify on Wednesday “speaks volumes.” WHITE HOUSE LOOKS TO CONVINCE AMERICANS OF ‘BIDENOMICS’ WITH KAMALA HARRIS TOUR “The chair looks forward to reviewing her thorough and transparent responses to the committee’s letter,” the spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairwoman Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., did not say whether she is concerned by the allegations made against NPR or if she would invite Maher to testify in the Senate. “The chair is focused on getting a five-year reauthorization passed,” the spokesperson said, referencing the FAA re-authorization bill that has a deadline of May 10. CPB has also been the recipient of letters scrutinizing its grant funding to NPR amid the scandal. Both Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., have sent such letters. ERNST LEADS SENATE GOP DEMANDING BIDEN ‘CEASE PLANNING’ GAZA REFUGEE ACCEPTANCE Asked by Fox News Digital for comment on the letters and any concerns the corporation might have over the revelations at NPR, CPB simply replied on Tuesday it “has confirmed receipt of Senator Cruz’s letter and will reply in a timely manner.” The allegations of ideological bias in NPR’s newsroom have also led to bills being discussed in both chambers and introduced in the House to cut the organization’s funding. One such attempt by House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., would stop NPR from receiving federal funding, while also preventing public radio stations with federal grants from using them to buy content from or pay dues to NPR. Berliner’s scathing essay addressing his concerns with his employer was published roughly one month ago, on April 9. Among other revelations, Berliner discovered that the NPR Washington, D.C., newsroom held zero Republicans, compared to 87 Democrats.
Top 5 moments of Trump trial after ‘salacious’ Stormy Daniels testimony
The unprecedented criminal trial of former President Trump reached a fever pitch Tuesday with highly anticipated and salacious testimony from adult film actress Stormy Daniels that prompted a motion for a mistrial and a scolding from the judge. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges stem from a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The charges are related to alleged payments made ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence Daniels about an alleged 2006 extramarital affair with Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg must convince the jury that not only did Trump falsify the business records related to alleged hush money payments, but that he did so in furtherance of another crime: conspiracy to promote or prevent election, which is a felony. NY V TRUMP: JUDGE DENIES MOTION FOR MISTRIAL AMID STORMY DANIELS TESTIMONY On their own, falsifying business records and conspiracy to promote or prevent election are misdemeanor charges. Here are the top five moments from Tuesday’s day in court. Attorneys for Trump objected to prosecutors’ plans to go through the “full details” of the alleged sexual encounter between the pornography actress and Trump. Trump’s team argued there was no need for the details and further argued that there is an issue with Daniels’ credibility by pointing to her initial denial of any alleged encounter in 2018. Prosecutors told Judge Juan Merchan that they would “not go into details of genitalia.” Merchan sided with prosecutors, and Daniels promptly took the stand. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, told prosecutors she prefers to be referred to as Stormy Daniels. She said she grew up in a low-income family in Louisiana and was raised by her mother after her parents divorced. Daniels testified that at age 17 she began erotic dancing for money, and at age 21, she began nude modeling for magazines. She said she then traveled to California to be an extra in an adult film and was offered an adult film contract at age 23. The adult film actress testified that she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in July 2006 in Lake Tahoe. She said that at the time she was under contract at Wicked Pictures, which was a sponsor and had a table at the tournament. “It was a very brief encounter … players came though … introduced to every player who came through … very brief encounter,” Daniels said on the witness stand. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked what Daniels discussed with Trump. Daniels said it wasn’t very much; she was introduced as a director and said Trump told her that “you must be the smart one.” BRAGG PROSECUTOR LEADING STORMY DANIELS QUESTIONING IN TRUMP TRIAL DONATED TO JOE BIDEN, DEMOCRATS Daniels said she knew about Trump’s then-reality show “The Apprentice” and that he did cameos and commercials. She was 27 at the time and knew Trump was “probably as old or as old as my father,” who was 60 at the time. She said she saw Trump in the gift room and made sure Trump got a copy of a movie called “Three Wishes” and chatted briefly. She said someone came back and asked her if she wanted to have dinner with Trump. Daniels said that she discussed the invitation to dinner with her then-publicist, recalling that her publicist joked, “I think you should go … what could possibly go wrong?” The publicist implied it would be good for Daniels’ career, the performer said. She then testified in detail about the alleged sexual encounter with Trump in a hotel room. After a brief morning break and a pause in Daniels’ testimony, Merchan told prosecutors that they were going into too much detail during their questioning of her. “The degree of detail we’re going into is unnecessary,” the judge told Manhattan prosecutor Hoffinger and asked her to move things along. Prior to the break, the prosecution asked Daniels to recount an alleged meeting with Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel room. Daniels said Trump asked her to dinner after meeting her earlier at the tournament. Daniels has alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and that in 2016 she was paid $130,000 by Trump’s ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to keep that story from the media. Trump has denied the affair. Daniels initially denied the affair before changing her story in 2018. After lunch, Trump’s defense attorneys moved for a mistrial amid Daniels’ testimony. Defense attorney Todd Blanche, after the court’s lunch break, told Merchan that Daniels’ testimony Tuesday morning was prejudicial. Merchan said a mistrial was not warranted and that he was doing everything he could to control the witness, including once objecting to Daniels’ testimony himself. “I agree that it would have been better if some of these things had been left unsaid,” Merchan said. Blanche said the prosecution is trying to inflame the jury with Daniels’ testimony, including with evidence that he said does not matter. Blanche said it is prejudicial testimony and evidence, saying Daniels has been trying to sell her story about an alleged consensual sexual encounter since 2016. The defense attorney said Daniels’ testimony on Tuesday was about “consent and danger” and that was “not the story that she was selling in 2016.” He also said Daniels was testifying about consent, and that kind of testimony “makes it impossible to come back from.” Blanche said the defense “objected as best we could, but she was able to say what she said.” He also questioned how the defense could “come back from this” in a way that could be “fair” to Trump. NY V TRUMP TO RESUME AFTER FORMER PRESIDENT THREATENED WITH JAIL, TOLD TRIAL TO LAST AT LEAST 2 MORE WEEKS “We believe there should be a mistrial,” he said, “or that this witness’ testimony is excluded and extremely limited.” Blanche said Daniels’ lurid and explosive testimony “has nothing to do with this case” and is “totally irrelevant.” He also noted that what Daniels said was
‘Shameful’: GOP lawmaker shreds ‘AWOL’ Biden for throwing Jews ‘under the bus’ amid anti-Israel protests
A Republican lawmaker from New Jersey praised Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to visit Columbia University in response to the anti-Israel protests on campus and blasted President Biden’s leadership on the issue that has spread to campuses nationwide. “October 7th should have been the absolute wake-up call as to what Hamas and company are all about, Iran too, so Speaker Johnson did a magnificent job,”Smith told Fox News Digital this week about Speaker Johnson’s visit to Columbia’s campus contrasted with President Biden’s leadership on the issue. “Not so with the president. The president has been nowhere to be found. He’s been AWOL. He’s been enabling. He’s so worried about losing Dearborn, Michigan votes that he has thrown Jews and the Israeli people under the bus and I think it’s shameful. Shameful. And he needs to get his voice and speak out boldly. Zero tolerance for antisemitism.” Michigan is seen by many as a “must win” state for Biden this November after he narrowly won there by less than 3 points. In recent months, a growing number of Palestinians in Dearborn, Michigan and other places in the state have suggested they will drop their support of him if he continues to support Israel’s military operations in Gaza. ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS AT MIT TAKE DOWN BARRIER, RETAKE CAMPUS ENCAMPMENT AFTER POLICE CLEARED IT “We can hope but I think it’s hope that’s probably not going to happen,” Smith said when asked if he believes Biden should visit one of the many college campuses experiencing anti-Israel protests. Fox News Digital asked Smith what he hopes to see the Biden administration do going forward. “To speak out on behalf of the Israelis, to support the Israelis in their all-out effort to rid themselves of the Hamas cancer. Hamas, again, is committed to one thing, killing Jews. Even when you read the Hamas charter it says don’t enter into peace conferences. They want to kill. They want to commit genocide and that’s what they are in the process of doing. That’s what Iran is all about under its misguided leadership.” “I thought, here we go again,” Smith told Fox News Digital when asked about Columbia University’s recent decision to cancel its graduation due to the anti-Israel protests that led to violence, harassment, and arrests on its campus in recent weeks. “People who are committed, that is to say, the Students for Free Palestine and others, to Hamas, which is a terrorist organization and a organization that promotes genocide against Jews and Israel,” Smith said. “To think that they’ve now canceled the graduation exercises. The fact that they have, in my opinion, not just there, but throughout the country, including at Rutgers in my state, they’re spewing a creed of hatred and antisemitism that puts students at risk and raises the prospects of violence, to a very, very high level.” ISRAELI TROOPS GAIN OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF GAZAN SIDE OF RAFAH CROSSING, IDF SAYS Smith visited Rutgers University in his home state of New Jersey last week in response to an anti-Israel protest on that campus where students listed demands including the schools divestment from Israeli entities. “We just had a situation at Rutgers where there was another encampment like we’re seeing all over,” Smith explained. “It’s all organized. It’s nothing sporadic about this. It’s all organized. And they made ten demands. They called it requests of the administration and we’re told that eight of those requests have already been given and two of them are under serious consideration.” Smith said divestment is one of the demands being considered by Rutgers and he believes that BDS is simply an effort to “delegitimize Israel” and turn it into a “pauper state.” “It’s a terrible, terrible movement and yet Rutgers has said, well, let’s talk about it,” Smith continued. “They have agreed to set up this cultural center which I think will become potentially a haven for antisemitic hatred. The president is asked to apologize for the Israeli genocide. He ought to be asking Hamas and the students to apologize for supporting, beginning on October 7th but also before that and now after that, a genocidal regime.” Biden has been heavily criticized for his response to the anti-Israel protests across the country and many took issue with his decisions to wait 9 days before giving an on-camera comment and declining to send in the National Guard to restore order. “So let me be clear,” Biden said last week. “Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law. Vandalism. Trespassing. Breaking windows. Shutting down campuses. Forcing the cancelation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people. Intimidating people. Instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest. It’s against the law.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
Biden administration confirms paused shipment of bombs to Israel over opposition to operation in Rafah
The Biden administration has paused shipments of two types of precision bombs to Israel in response to U.S. opposition to Israeli forces’ operation in Rafah, according to a U.S. official. One shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs the administration says might be used in Rafah has been placed on hold. “The U.S. position has been that Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,” the U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We have been engaging in a dialogue with Israel in our Strategic Consultative Group format on how they will meet the humanitarian needs of civilians in Rafah, and how to operate differently against Hamas there than they have elsewhere in Gaza,” the official continued. “Those discussions are ongoing and have not fully addressed our concerns. As Israeli leaders seemed to approach a decision point on such an operation, we began to carefully review proposed transfers of particular weapons to Israel that might be used in Rafah. This began in April.” BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUTS HOLD ON US AMMUNITION SHIPMENT TO ISRAEL: REPORT Following this review, the U.S. decided last week to pause a shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, according to the official, who said the administration is “especially focused” on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs and “the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of Gaza.” A final determination has not yet been made on how to proceed with this shipment. “For certain other cases at the State Department, including Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, we are continuing the review,” the official said. None of these cases involve imminent transfers – they are about future transfers.” The official also emphasized that these shipments do not have anything to do with the Israel supplemental appropriations passed last month. WHITE HOUSE SAYS COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL ‘IRONCLAD,’ DESPITE REPORT OF SLOW-WALKING MILITARY AID “All are drawn from previously appropriated funds, some many years ago,” the official said. “We are committed to ensuring Israel gets every dollar appropriated in the supplemental. In fact, we just approved the latest tranche of Foreign Military Financing: $827 million worth of weapons and equipment for Israel.” The statement from the U.S. official comes after two Israeli officials told Axios that U.S.-manufactured ammunition to Israel was paused last week for the first time since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against the Jewish State. On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that it had gained operational control of the Gazan side of the Rafah Crossing after troops began a “precise counterterrorism operation” in eastern Rafah aimed at killing Hamas terrorists and dismantling “Hamas terrorist infrastructure within specific areas of eastern Rafah.” Fox News’ Liz Friden contributed to this report.
Stormy alleges one-night stand with Trump, agreed to lie for her $130,000 payoff
If Stormy Daniels succeeded yesterday in convincing a jury that she had a one-night sexual encounter with Donald Trump, it was by delving into the details. At the same time, she acknowledged that Trump did nothing to pressure her into having sex in 2006 and that she sought him out the following year. The porn star has never described their alleged one-nighter as anything other than consensual sex, though Trump insists it never happened. That may not matter in a trial that ultimately turns on an allegation of falsified business records, but this does: Daniels says that in exchange for a $130,000 payment – and there’s no factual dispute that Michael Cohen sent her the money – she signed a non-disclosure agreement that required her to lie. BIDEN TAKES ROLE AS BYSTANDER ON BORDER AND CAMPUS PROTESTS, SURRENDERS THE BULLY PULPIT “I could not tell my story, he could not tell his story. We had to pretend we didn’t know each other.” And that, of course, is a serious ding to her credibility. Even reporters in the Manhattan courthouse said it was hard to know how this was playing with the jurors. Stormy made jokes they didn’t laugh at, and spoke so quickly that she repeatedly had to be admonished to slow down, so the court reporter could keep up. Here’s what Daniels said happened that fateful night: They met briefly at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament; she was 27, making and directing X-rated films, and he was about 60. Daniels says she knew little about him and had never seen “Celebrity Apprentice.” She saw him again at the gift shop, as documented by a photo that the world has seen a billion times. Bodyguard Keith Schiller asked if she’d have dinner with Trump; she says she replied “F*** no.” But Schiller got her cell number (he’s in her contacts) and asked again by text. Daniels’ publicist urged her to go, in what I find the funniest line of the day: “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” When she was taken to the penthouse, Trump was in silk pajamas. She says she told him to change. NY JUDGE RESPONDS TO TRUMP ATTORNEYS BID FOR MISTRIAL AMID DANIELS’ TESTIMONY Daniels described the room in detail, beautiful heavy furniture, in an attempt to prove she was there. He asked about her family and how she got into adult movies. (Daniels testified earlier that “my mother was very neglectful, disappearing for days at a time.”) Were there STD tests? She said she told Trump she’d never tested positive. There was a very brief conversation about Melania: Trump said she was very beautiful, and added: “We don’t sleep in the same room.” Stormy testified she snapped at Trump when he showed her a business magazine with him as the cover boy: “Are you always this rude? Are you always this arrogant and pompous? You don’t even know how to have a conversation.” She looked at the magazine and said: “Someone should spank you with that.” He played the “Apprentice” card, saying she should come on his show. Stormy wasn’t buying it, saying NBC would never put on a porn star: “Even you don’t have that much power.” She recalled Trump saying: “You remind me of my daughter, smart blonde and beautiful, people always underestimate her.” ‘THE VIEW’ CO-HOSTS FANTASIZE OVER SENDING TRUMP TO PRISON Okay, enough small talk (there was two hours’ worth). Daniels crossed the bedroom to go to the bathroom, where she went through his toiletry bag. When Daniels came out, she testified, “he was on the bed, wearing boxers and a T-shirt.” Here’s where it got dramatic: “I felt the room spin and blood leave my hands.” How had she misread the situation? (Right, someone who is paid for sex had no idea?) Stormy says she “blacked out,” though she hadn’t been drugged. “There was an imbalance of power. He was bigger and blocking the way.” But, “I was not threatened verbally or physically.” Somehow she transitioned, after the blood leaving her hands, to saying “I had my clothes and my shoes off. I removed my bra.” They were in the “missionary position.” How does that square with her earlier freakout? Judge Juan Merchan sustained the first of several defense objections to her description of the position. Daniels also said the action was brief, that he didn’t use a condom, and that she didn’t enjoy it. More telling, in my view, is that the porn star stayed in touch with the man she says blocked her from leaving the room. She went to his launch of a vodka product the next spring, wanting to maintain a relationship because the possibility of an “Apprentice” appearance was still in the air. She saw him again that summer in L.A., went to his hotel bungalow with her boyfriend stationed outside. “He kept trying to make sexual advances,” putting his hand on her leg. She says she lied and claimed she was having her period. Not shockingly, Trump later called, said he’d been overruled and couldn’t get her on the show. A key moment, which Daniels has alleged before, is that an unknown man came up to her in a parking lot in 2011 and threatened her if she ever revealed the encounter with Trump. Of course, that makes the account impossible to fact-check. In the final stretch of the 2016 campaign, Daniels was approached about the $130,000 payment, told that this way her husband would not find out. She kept saying she wasn’t interested in money, but was more than happy to take the six-figure deal. When the Wall Street Journal exposed the hush money scheme in 2018, with no comment from Daniels, she says her life turned into “chaos” and she was “ostracized.” On cross-examination, the defense quickly scored points. Trump had called her “horseface.” Did she “hate” Trump? Yes. Does she want him to go to jail? If he’s convicted, “absolutely.” Daniels lost a defamation suit she filed against