Combs' Steel: You say he made you take d**** against you will at Burning Man - but you post about it?
Mia: Right.
Steel: You posted a picture with him, a man terrorizing you?
Mia: Uh, yes.
Steel: And this video depicting Mr. Combs as doctor delivering your baby?

Mia: It was a funny video, I was proud to be in it.
Combs' Steel: Mr. Combs' birthday is significant to you too - you did two shots with him, right?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: Alcohol overcame you, right?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: You believe you were d***ged?
Mia: I didn't say that

Combs' Steel: A person you really don't know put his mouth on your mouth without your permission, right?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: His hands up your dress & onto your person, remember that? It was paralyzing?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: You wake up in a chair, you told the jury that?

Mia: I did.
Combs' Steel: But this message... and this one, another same day posting - the anniversary of you being sexually assaulted by Sean Combs according to your testimony?
Mia: I don't celebrated it as the anniversary of that, but his birthday.

Combs' Steel: What did you write?
Mia: Thank you for giving me an extended family for life. You're f*cking funny. I love you
Steel: You're in a tutu, next to Mr. Combs, right?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: He's holding his private part in his hand?
Mia: I guess so

Combs' Steel: You were proud of Mr. Sean Combs?
Mia: Of course you'd post the great times.
Steel: You wrote, extended family for life, you are forever one of my great fans - this about the man who traumatized you?
Mia: I wrote that.

While this is unbecoming and personally nasty TO ME (cause just from a human POV it is kind of wicked to show me all this love, then years later say I grape'd you and get 10Ms out of me, that's nasty), humans are simply complex creatures.

Steele's doing the best job anyone can do when both hands are tied behind your back and you're tasked with defending evil in human flesh

The problem that the defense will consistently run into is that grape and assault victims are still humans and humans are complex creatures capable of compartmentalizing to extradorinaiy extents. I can still love the person that grape'd me. I can still have empathy for the person who assaulted me.

It happens ALL the time. So unless you can somehow taint her to the point where she isn't believable you're cooked. Pointing out that she still showed / shows love for her abuser is very much typical behavior.

But maybe the jury still has an archaic view of how abuse victims are 'supposed to' respond

Combs' Steel: Who is your mentor and brother you are writing about?
Mia: Puff.
Steel: You did a collage, a lot of them are you and Mr. Combs, you picked out the thumbnails, right?
Mia: Right.
Steel: What did you write?
Mia: "Who let me have my hair like that?"

Combs' Steel: You are with Mr. Combs, right?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: Here you say, Look ma I'm in a billboard in Times Square, right?
Mia: It's a play on, My name is in lights.
Steel: And this photo?
Mia: Me and Cass, going to Istanbul

More context and details:

When asked, Mia testified she made positive posts about Diddy because social media was about showing how great your life was even if it wasn’t true.

She also said Diddy’s fans followed her and she didn’t want her family to know what she was going through, referring to the various forms of abuse she said she experienced.

Combs' Steel: Did Mr. Combs have to approve both of you going on that trip?
Mia: Absolutely.
Steel: This photo?
Mia: We are in the sprinter van on the way to Cass' club appearance.
Steel: Where are you in this one?
Mia: The W Hotel in Istanbul

Combs' Steel: What did you write here?
Mia: About Muhammad Ali's birthday, with Puff. I took the photo
Steel: You took one photo?
Mia: I'm sure I took multiple - but this was the best one
Steel: This is November 4, five years after you were sexually assaulted?
Mia: Yes

Combs' Steel: What did you write?
Mia: Thank you for being my friend, Hashtag Happy Birthday Diddy Hashtag I'm so hot I'm throwing panties at myself
Steel: And you have Mr. Combs shirtless in two of the pictures
Mia: He's always shirtless.

Combs' Steel: Mia, you have said you were sexually assaulted so many time you can't remember
AUSA: Objection, misstates the testimony
Judge: Sustained.
Steel: Have you meet with the prosecutors?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: More than 27 times?
Mia: I don't know the number

Combs' Steel: Do you remember telling, you don't remember how many times you were sexually assaulted?
Mia: I don't know if I phrased it that way.
Steel: This has ruined you, right? You are broken, yes?
Mia: The sexual abuse was part of the way he ruined me, yes

Combs' Steel: You wrote, Thank you for being the good kind of crazy, inspiring me every day?
Mia: I don't think people wrote bad stuff about their life on Instagram back then
Steel: Why'd you promote it?
Mia: It was my job to promote. It was a cycle of ups & downs

Mia: When he was calling me his best friend, I wasn't afraid of him.
Combs' Steel: You weren't afraid of the man who stole your innocence?
AUSA: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
Steel: You have family?
Mia: Parents, a sister.
Steel: And friends?
AUSA: Time frame?

Steele's coming with it ngl

Combs' Steel: When you posted this you still had friend?
Mia: I had no sounding board. I had to get permission to go to my grandfather's funeral.
Steel: The jury was an email with D-Roc, you could express yourself, right?
Mia: I reached out to him.

Combs' Steel: What's this?
Mia: My friends at Funny or Die, I'm in the video.
Steel: What did you write?
Mia: You know you are a celebrity when you are spraying champagne at Funny or Die
Steel: What is this?
Mia: My birthday post for Justin, Puff's son

More context and details:

Diddy's former assistant Mia said that she had friends outside of her job — but she didn’t get to see them or speak to them.

“I did not have an external sounding board,” she said.

Defense attorney Brian Steel suggested that she could have reached out to them if she wanted to.

“No, there was absolutely no time, and I had to get permission to leave or do things,” she responded. “I had to beg to go to my grandma’s funeral.”

Mia said she was fearful for her own safety when Diddy was unhappy.

“I was in fear any time Puff was not happy, because I wanted to make sure that he was, because then I was safe,” she testified.

Combs' Steel: And this one?
Mia: Ciroc promo, hashtag hashtag.
Steel: You are in it with Mr. Combs?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: Do you ever say anything that Mr. Combs violated you?
Mia: Never
Steel: Here?
Mia: Puff and Jimmy Iovine, legends-
Steel: He's traumatized you?
Yes

Combs' Steel: You wrote?
Mia: Watch Puff tonight on Fuse today. I convinced him to make a door on his TV set and call it the Diddy door
Steel: You post a picture of the person who has ruined your life?
Mia: And my boss.
Steel: Who made you post this?
Mia: No one

Combs' Steel: How do you forget about waking up with a man on top, having his way with you?
Mia: I was in fear of upsetting him, the moments other then when we were best friends
Steel: How are you best friends with a man you say raped you?
Mia: Ask my therapist

Combs' Steel: What did you write?
Mia: F*ck off Patron, with a photo of Puff dancing with his tequila.
Steel: And in this photo, Mr. Combs is close to you?
Mia: Yes.
Steel: You are producing the show?
Mia: Funny or Die did it. But I was getting producer credits