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Naomi Fry, a staff writer and co-host of the New Yorker podcast Critics at Large, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her impressions of Stormy Daniels’s testimony in the hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump. Having spent weeks doing a deep dive on the adult-film star’s life, Fry explains her understanding of Daniels’s motivations in accepting the hush money and what the sordid tale says about American culture today.
This week’s reading:

Stormy Daniels’s American Dream, by Naomi Fry
Can You Believe What Michael Cohen Just Said at the Trump Trial?, by Eric Lach

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Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet

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