Stormy Spills Details On Her Encounters With Trump

Axios reports:

Daniels’ testimony brought her face-to-face with the former president, years after she alleged that Trump paid her to stay quiet about an alleged affair that he denies.

Daniels described to the jury the night she says she met Trump for dinner after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. She testified that when she arrived at his hotel for dinner, he was wearing pajamas.

Daniels said that she told Trump that he was “arrogant” and asked him about his wife. She testified that she recalled Trump saying that he and his wife, Melania Trump, did not sleep in the same room. Trump appeared to mouth an expletive at one point

The New York Times reports:



One of the undercurrents of this testimony is how mocking and derisive Stormy Daniels is of Trump. In her telling, she was experiencing him that same way in real time during that evening in 2006. She has described him as being arrogant, and interrupting her while she talked. Stormy Daniels says that Trump told her she reminded him of his daugher, presumably Ivanka. “She’s smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,” Daniels said Trump remarked.

Daniels now takes on the defense’s argument about her directly, saying that it was Trump himself who invited her to come on “The Apprentice,” not the other way around. This is fascinating, because we have seen many times the way that Trump accuses his adversaries of the same faults that he’s accused of. Here, Daniels is suggesting she wasn’t the one trying to use “The Apprentice” — he was, for sex.

Daniels says that during her dinner with Trump, she asked about his wife. He told her, she says, not to worry because the two did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump and Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter.

Trump is well known as a germophobe. Stormy Daniels has previously said that they had sex without a condom. This section of testimony — in which Daniels says she told Trump how frequently she was tested for sexually transmitted diseases — could help bolster the credibility of her story.