In a trial that is expected to last at least six weeks, eight hours of testimony would be a mere drop in an ocean of statements if it were not for the time that Stormy Daniels spoke in the Manhattan courtroom where she has … Bribery case against Donald Trump dropped. The former porn star intervened two days – Tuesday and Thursday – in the same courtroom that is judging the former president for falsifying documents, precisely, to hide the payment of $130,000 to the actress in exchange for her never saying anything about the sexual encounter they would have had. maintained in 2006. But he did not remain silent. Neither a few years ago, when she revealed the alleged ‘affair’ at the Lake Tahoe hotel, nor this week, with a double appearance where she spared no details. These are five of the most explosive confessions from the woman she declared as Stephanie Clifford, her real name.
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“Does Hugh Hefner know that you stole his pajamas?”
In her interventions Daniels was so graphic – which Judge Juan Merchan did not like – that it is not difficult to get the idea of the 59-year-old man she met, she was 27, when she arrived at the hotel room where the tycoon was waiting for her. . Trump, she said, answered the door wearing “silk or satin” pajamas. He didn’t remember the fabric well, but he did remember that the outfit was very similar to the one the founder of ‘Playboy’ magazine used to wear at the parties he organized at his popular mansion, where he coincidentally surrounded himself with girls who were a few decades older than him. . “Does Hugh Hefner know that you stole his pajamas?” The former porn actress said she snapped at him when she saw him that way. The former president did not take long to change his clothes.
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«When I came out of the bathroom I was in bed and without underwear»
The date began with some conversation in the room, which Daniels described as “seven times” bigger than her apartment, although the plan was to go down to dinner. After two bottles of water, she decided to go to the bathroom and upon leaving she realized that, at least Trump, she had changed her mind. “I was in bed and without underwear,” she explained. “If someone is in their underwear on the bed, the intention is pretty clear,” she insisted. And she doesn’t pass by the restaurant, precisely. At that moment, according to her story, the businessman cornered her and knocked her down. The former porn star’s statement begins at this point to escalate, with details such as that the former president did not use a condom and that she had sexual relations with him in the missionary position.
A moment from the trial, with Trump, on the left, and Daniels, on the right.
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“I never said ‘no’ because I never said anything”
The encounter with Trump has long haunted Daniels. Not only because of the weight of carrying that secret – until he revealed it and the scandal broke out – but also because of the “shame” that he, he admitted at trial, carries for not having avoided it. “I never said ‘no’ because I never said anything,” he admitted. The former actress stressed that she had not consumed alcohol or drugs, but when the magnate stood in front of her to prevent her from leaving, “she lost consciousness” and when she came to, “she was looking at the ceiling and didn’t know how she got there.” “I was trying to think about something other than what was happening,” she commented in the presence of the former president in the room, where it is common to see him half asleep. In these two sessions she kept her eyes wide open.
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“I spanked him on the butt with a magazine.”
Daniels stated that she decided to meet Trump convinced by her publicist, who saw it as an opportunity for her to participate in his television show ‘The Apprentice’ and boost her career as a screenwriter and director. In fact, the businessman seemed interested in her business beyond the “sexy stuff” of the porn industry, asking her questions… and also interrupting her when she tried to elaborate. “Are you always so arrogant and pompous?” she replied, tired of being cut off again and again. The Republican – who still had a few years left to step into the White House – then couldn’t think of anything other than to challenge her to “spank him on the butt with a magazine.” He was on the cover.
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“He told me that Melania and him didn’t even sleep in the same room”
The former president considered that Daniels, or at least that’s what he told him, was not a bit stupid. «You remind me of my daughter. “She is intelligent, blonde and pretty and people also underestimate her,” he compared in reference to Ivanka, one of her right-hand men. It was not the only detail about her family that he shared with the former adult film actress, to whom he even talked about her marital life. Then, as now, he was already married to Melania. “They didn’t even sleep in the same room,” he declared that Trump had confessed before that relationship that, almost two decades later, has led him to the dock.
