Porn film actress Stormy Daniels came face to face with former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday graphically telling jurors at his New York trial t
Porn film actress Stormy Daniels came face to face with former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, graphically telling jurors at his New York trial that she had an unwanted 2006 sexual encounter with him and then was paid $130,000 to stay quiet about it ahead of Trump’s successful run for the presidency in 2016.
Daniels testified for hours about how she met Trump at a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament in Nevada, how he invited her to dinner in his hotel suite, how she found him „rude and arrogant,“ how they discussed a possible appearance for her on his „Celebrity Apprentice“ reality show and then ended up in bed for a brief liaison that Trump denies ever occurred.
Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche sought a mistrial after her at times lurid testimony. But New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, while saying some of her account might have been better left unsaid, denied the request.
Her testimony was a pivotal point in New York prosecutors‘ 34-count indictment accusing Trump of falsifying business records at his Trump Organization real estate conglomerate to hide a $130,000 reimbursement to his erstwhile lawyer and political fixer Michael Cohen.
Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court, May 7, 2024, in New York.
Cohen paid Daniels to silence her claim of sex with Trump, which Trump allegedly sought to keep from voters just days ahead of the election eight years ago.
Daniels, dressed in a black outfit, took the witness stand a short distance from Trump, apparently their first encounter since 2007 when she visited him at his Trump Tower business office in New York and he introduced her to the people who happened to be there.
