Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s hush money trial

Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s hush money trial
Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s hush money trial

Stormy Daniels is still on the stand and has spoken for about an hour.

Here’s what to know about her testimony so far:

She refused Trump’s dinner offer: When Trump’s bodyguard, Keith Schiller, asked Stormy Daniels if she would have dinner with Trump, she refused, she testified. “F no,” Daniels said she replied. (Daniels, in court, said the letter F, not an expletive.)

Contact info shared: After declining Trump’s dinner invitation, his bodyguard gave Daniels his contact information, she said. Schiller took her cell phone number and messaged her — the jury saw a photo of the contact saved in Daniels’ phone as “Keith Trump.” Daniels said she didn’t know Schiller’s last name at the time.

Her publicist encouraged her to go to dinner with Trump. “What could possibly go wrong,” Daniels said her publicist told her, giggling as she spoke on the stand.

Trump wore satin pajamas: Daniels took an elevator to the penthouse floor and met Schiller, who was waiting outside the door, she said. The door was cracked open, so she went in.

Schiller told her they’d met at the hotel and they could go downstairs, as there were a lot of restaurants in the area. But Trump was wearing satin pajamas when she arrived at the suite, she said.

“Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?” Daniels said, confirming that she was referring to Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.

She told Trump to change, so he returned wearing a dress shirt and dress pants.

What they discussed: Daniels said Trump asked her to chat with him so they could get to know each other, as it was a bit early for dinner. “I told him where I grew up. He asked about my family, do I have brothers and sisters? I don’t,” Daniels said. She added that she told him about the conditions she grew up in as a child.

Questions from Trump: Trump had a lot of questions about how Daniels got involved in the adult entertainment business, she said, including asking her how she moved from being a porn star to writing and directing. Her sexual health came up and Daniels volunteered that she had not tested positive for STDs.

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