Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump trial: ‘He challenged me to spank his ass’

Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who allegedly had intimate relations with Donald Trump, former US president and current candidate, is testifying in New York at the former White House leader’s trial and recounted in detail how the meeting unfolded with Trump since 2006.

Trump is accused of trying to hide the payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing the fact that she had sex with him.

Trump made this payment shortly before the 2016 presidential election in an attempt to prevent this information from appearing in the media.

Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, previously revealed that Trump asked him to pay the actress the sum of money so that she would not reveal anything about the sexual relations.

Daniels says Trump had her “over dinner” in satin pajamas

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, began her testimony by talking about her early years in the adult film industry, saying she never had “any problem with nudity or filmed sex.”

She says she first met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, a brief encounter in which Trump “noticed” her and asked her if she also directed movies. that evening, Daniels says a Trump bodyguard told her the billionaire wanted to take her to dinner.

Although she initially declined, Daniels said she saved her number in her phone. She was then persuaded by her press representative to go to the dinner. She says she expected the meeting to be a simple dinner, but Trump received her in his hotel room dressed only in satin pajamas.

“I asked him, ‘Does Hugh Hefner know you stole his pajamas?'” she continued, adding that she asked Trump to change and he accepted.

“He challenged me to spank his ass”

The conversation between the two reportedly began with standard politeness, but Trump quickly changed the subject, asking her about the porn industry.

She says she was impressed by this because “typically people only want to talk about ‘sexual details.’ The two would also have discussed “similarities between porn stars and wrestlers”.

The porn actress then said that eventually Trump’s “arrogance” bored her and she angrily asked him: “Are you always so rude? Are you always so arrogant and conceited?”. After this question, Trump allegedly challenged her to “slap his ass.”

“He was much more polite after that,” she continued. Daniels says that Trump offered to do business together, a proposal to which she responded positively, seeing it as an opportunity.

When she went to the toilet, she said she found gold tweezers and other manicure items in the billionaire’s bathroom, which she found “weird and funny”. Among Trump’s toiletries would also have been Old Spice perfume, she said.

When she returned to the room, Daniels says Trump was in bed in only his underwear.

“At first I was just scared. I felt the blood drain from my hands and feet. How much did I misinterpret the situation to get here?” she said.

“I woke up lying on the bed, naked and barefoot”

Daniels says Trump then stood in front of the door, but not in a threatening way. “I thought you were serious. This is the only way for you to get rid of the menial work”, and the billionaire said.

Daniels says that after this moment she “passed out”, clarifying, however, that she was neither drunk nor drugged, but that she knew that Trump’s bodyguard was at the door.

“There was definitely a power imbalance, he was bigger than me and blocking the door, but I wasn’t threatened verbally or physically.” However, the former actress says she didn’t object to Trump or tell him she didn’t want to have sex with him. “I said absolutely nothing.”

“Immediately after, I found myself lying on the bed, undressed and barefoot. I feel like I still had my bra on. I was in the missionary position … I was looking at the ceiling and I didn’t know how I got there, I was trying to think about anything but what was going on,” Daniels continued, describing the relationship with Trump. Daniels said the billionaire wasn’t wearing a condom but she didn’t say anything.

“I left as fast as I could. That was all. He told me that we should meet again, that we are a fantastic match. I told a small number of people that I had sex with Trump.”

Trump has always denied having sex with Daniels.

The next night, Daniels says she met Trump at a nightclub, where he introduced her to American football player Ben Roethlisberger and introduced her as “my little friend, Stormy.”

After all that, Daniels says he tried to sell the story to more news outlets, but to no avail. She says she didn’t want to do it for the money, but because she wanted her story to go public. Things changed after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, in which Trump could be heard making outrageous claims about women.

She says she has not contacted Trump or his lawyers to ask them to remain silent. When the $130,000 offer was made to her, she feared for a while that Trump might waive the payment if he won the election but did not negotiate because she “didn’t care about the amount.”

“If the payment hadn’t been made before the election, it would never have happened again, because he would have gotten what he wanted.”

Editor: Adrian Dumitru