He was wearing silk or satin pajamas that I immediately
made fun of him for and said,
does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?
What did Mr. Trump do when you said that?
I told him to go change,
and he obliged, very politely.
Stormy Daniels is clearly one of the main characters in
this sensational case.
She's a porn star who claims that she had a
sexual encounter with Trump in
2006. Whether jurors believe Stormy Daniels could be critical to
the case because that event laid the groundwork for everything
that followed the Hush money payment in 2016,
the alleged falsification of business records the following year,
and the criminal trial in the first criminal case against
an American president.
Daniels proceeded to give hours of detailed,
intimate testimony about how she met Trump in 2006 and
what she claims happened in that hotel room.
What were you and others from Wicked Entertainment doing at
this golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July of
2006? We had a table in the gift room where
celebrities would come through.
And did you meet Donald Trump on the golf course?
Yes, I did. The story really escalates when Stormy Daniels
meets Donald Trump in his hotel suites.
When I came out of the bathroom,
I expected to exit, go around the bed and back
out to where we had been sitting and talking and
hopefully say,
OK, time to go. And when I opened the bathroom
door to come out,
Mr. Trump had come into the bedroom and was on
the bed basically between myself and the exit.
What was he wearing at the time?
His boxer shorts and T-shirt.
She did not have a filter.
She talked about the details of the sex that she
says she had with Donald Trump.
We even saw some jurors kind of cover their faces
or turn away.
At first I was just startled,
like jump scare. I wasn't expecting someone to be there,
especially minus a lot of clothing.
That's when I had that moment where I felt the
room spin in slow motion.
I felt the blood basically leave my hands and my
feet.
One of the most compelling things about Daniels's testimony was
how she described the imbalance of power that she felt
in that hotel room.
And she does not say that she objected to having
sex with Trump.
But she also made clear that she never affirmatively said
yes,
and that she felt quite regretful and full of anxiety
over what happened and what happened next.
Briefly, I just think I blacked out.
I was not drugged. I was not drunk.
I never said anything of that sort.
I just don't remember. Did you feel threatened by him?
No, not physically, although I did note there was a
bodyguard right outside the door.
There was an imbalance of power for sure.
Can you very briefly describe where you had sex with
him?
The next thing I know,
I was on the bed.
I had my clothes and shoes off.
I believe my bra, however,
was still on. We were in the missionary position.
Was he wearing a condom Now?
Was that concerning to you?
Yes. So while Daniels is giving this very unvarnished testimony
about what happened in that hotel room,
Donald Trump is growing increasingly agitated.
He is not looking at Daniels.
He's shaking his head. He even seems to mouth the
word bullshit under his breath at one point.
I understand that your client is upset at this point,
but he is cursing audibly and he is shaking his
head visually,
and that's contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the
witness,
and the jury can see that.
I will talk to him.
Trump obviously has serious trouble controlling his decorum in court,
to say the least. Daniels was subject to a very
aggressive cross examination.
The defense wants to make Daniels out as someone who's
motivated by money,
someone who is out to extort Donald Trump.
Trump, of course, has denied ever having any kind of
sexual encounter with Daniels.
They're painting her as essentially a liar.
You've been making money by claiming to have had sex
with President Trump for more than a decade,
right? I have been making money by telling my story
about what happened to me.
And that story, in essence,
is that you say you had sex with President Trump,
right? Yes. And that story has made you a lot
of money,
right? It has also cost me a lot of money.
Daniels insisted that she was never primarily motivated by money.
On the other hand, we can state the obvious that
she did sell her story in 2016 and agree to
keep quiet.