“Stormy Daniels, whose account of a tryst with Donald Trump after a golf tournament in 2006 led to the first criminal trial of an American president, took the stand Tuesday and described for jurors explicit details of what she said happened inside a Lake Tahoe hotel suite,” the New York Times reports.
“Ms. Daniels, the porn star who received $130,000 from Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer on the eve of the 2016 election in return for her silence, described a sexual encounter that she said left her shaking and bewildered, but that Mr. Trump has for years denied ever happened.”
“In her testimony, Ms. Daniels described how Mr. Trump dangled an appearance on The Apprentice in front of her, and that she told him that he was ‘pompous’ and ‘arrogant’ — and also asked him if he was married. Mr. Trump, sitting just a few feet from the witness stand, wore a sour expression throughout, and at one point appeared to mouth an expletive.”
Washington Post: “Trump’s defense lawyers were clearly upset that Daniels kept offering details and opinions about the encounter far beyond the claim of the two having a sexual encounter — particularly since the testimony about that sex came after the judge had explicitly urged the prosecutor not to go into a lot of details in front of the jury.”
