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President Biden gave a speech on Holocaust remembrance. Former President Trump was in court with Stormy Daniels. The day captured the sometimes unreal reality of a presidential race like none before it.
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Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury about her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel room.
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 Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP via GettyStormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of Donald Trump's first criminal trial, spent five hours on the witness stand on Tuesday, detailing her sex romp with him and the payoff to buy her silence. Here are the highlights of her testimony.
Pajama PartyAfter meeting Trump at a 2006 golf tournament, Daniels testified, he invited her to dinner through his bodyguard. She said when she overcame her misgivings and showed up at his hotel suite, he was wearing "silk or satin" pajamas.
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 ReutersLong before Stormy Daniels was at the center of Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial in New York City, where she testified Tuesday, the porn star was leading a unique life in the spotlight.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is a 45-year-old Louisiana native who's 32 years the junior of Trump, who turns 78 next month. The two infamously had an alleged affair during a celebrity golf tournament on the shores of Lake Tahoe in 2006, a year into Trump's marriage with third wife Melania.
That alleged affair—and the hush-money the former president is accused of paying her to keep quiet—has turned Daniels into a household name in the United States. Here is a look at her life leading up to her testimony this week, including Hollywood acting and a (brief) foray into GOP politics.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen the porn star at the center of Donald Trump's New York case finally took the witness stand at the first ever criminal trial of a former American president on Tuesday, it sounded less like stodgy courtroom testimony and more like a chatty brunch to go over a horrible date.
Stormy Daniels raised her eyebrows suggestively when describing what it was like to suddenly find a business tycoon who wears his Brioni suit like a mandatory uniform suddenly appear in his hotel bed only clad in boxers and a T-shirt when she walked out of his bathroom.
She smiled as she threw herself back in the chair to imitate what it was like to see him lying down in bed, "like this," she said, raising her bare right leg above the wooden panels that line the witness box.
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Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump's hush money trial, testified about a sexual encounter she says she had with him.
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The adult-film actress provided the most significant counterpoint to date to Trump's consistent denials of a 2006 tryst. Will it matter?
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