Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial heard on Tuesday that porn star Stormy Daniels testified that she once spanked the former president with a magazine during racy and graphic testimony in a Manhattan courtroom. I struggled to maintain my composure.
But jurors were visibly unresponsive when Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, went on to say that she had sex with Trump, 77, in “missionary position” in a hotel bed in 2006.
Daniels, 45, who is fidgety and speaks quickly, said the sexual encounter was “brief” and that she was concerned that Trump wasn’t wearing a condom at the time.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchand supported Mr. Trump’s lawyers’ objections to Mr. Clifford’s graphic testimony, calling the “level of detail” “unnecessary.”
Wearing what appeared to be a black kimono over a tight black shirt, Ms. Daniels spoke quickly and gestured with her hands as she recalled her night with President Trump, during which she said, “I’m tired of the arrogance,” he said, “someone needs to spank me, flat out.” You too. ”
The adult film actress drew laughs from several jurors when she testified that she was referring to a magazine with President Trump’s face on the cover, then rolled it up and “smacked” it.
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She also said that earlier that night, Trump showed Daniels some photos, to which Daniels responded, “Oh, what about your wife?” –President Trump mentioned his wife, Melania, whom he married a year ago.
“He said, ‘Don’t worry about that. We’re not even sleeping in the same room,'” Daniels testified, her nose scrunched up, as Trump sat in the defense seat. I shook my head.
Trump sat hunched over during his testimony and motioned to his defense attorney, Susan Necheres. Susan Necheres filed several objections, which the judge supported.
Daniels, who appears to have occasionally glimpsed Trump, said she met the real estate mogul at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006, when she was 27.
The two joked around and eventually started dating, she said.
Daniels recalled that her publicist advised her to skip a work event she didn’t want to attend and that it would be a “better conversation” to meet with Trump instead.
The meeting came after Daniels met with Trump security guard Keith Schiller earlier in the day.
When she went to her luxury hotel suite, Trump told her to change into a pair of Hugh Hefner-style “silk or satin” pajamas.
Daniels explained that she didn’t tell her then-boyfriend and former publicist because she was “embarrassed” about sleeping with the would-be Republican presidential nominee.
The former president is accused of having his former lawyer Michael Cohen pay Daniels $130,000 in the run-up to the 2016 election to keep him from going public with her claims about her relationship at the time of their marriage. .
It is suspected that he then tried to cover up the “hush money” payments by writing them off as legal expenses.
President Trump has denied the charges and attacked the incident as a politically motivated witch hunt.
