He promised her dinner … however they didn’t have dinner. He instructed her she reminded him of his daughter … then stripped right down to his boxers and a T-shirt whereas she was within the toilet. He mentioned he may assist her profession with a spot on his TV present … then scolded her, “I believed you had been critical,” when she tried to go away.
To be clear, Stormy Daniels has by no means accused Donald Trump of something however a payoff. She has maintained that the intercourse she says they’d in his Lake Tahoe lodge suite in 2006 was consensual, albeit unenjoyable. However as I sat within the packed overflow room within the felony courthouse the place Trump is being tried and listened to Daniels testify concerning the sexual encounter she has typically joked about, the entire thing sounded lot darker, and murkier, than it had earlier than.
Daniels took the stand on Tuesday and spoke confidently. She gestured along with her palms, at instances joking, and at different instances she spoke so shortly that the decide needed to ask her to decelerate. However regardless of an settlement by the prosecution to not current “salacious” particulars concerning the sexual encounter itself, issues took a bleak flip when Daniels described what got here instantly earlier than and after it.
Trump was not threatening throughout the sexual encounter, she testified, although he was standing between her and the door. She didn’t say no to intercourse with him, however she additionally didn’t consent to him not utilizing a condom. She saved involved with him after, she mentioned — even going to a different lodge room with him one other time — as a result of she wished to broaden her profession, and he was dangling a possibility to seem on “The Apprentice.”
And but at instances, the phrases Daniels used to explain the encounter with Trump had been harking back to so most of the different tales of girls who’ve come ahead to accuse him of sexual assault: She mentioned she “blacked out,” then lay bare, staring up on the ceiling. She “felt just like the room spun in gradual movement,” and that the blood left her palms and toes. When it was over, she mentioned, she fumbled along with her sneakers — gold strappy heels she had hassle fastening as a result of her palms had been shaking so arduous.
Finally she blamed herself: “I simply thought, ‘Oh my God, what did I misinterpret to get right here?’”
