Nervous but talkative, the 45-year-old actress recounted the day when, on the sidelines of a golf competition, she met Donald Trump. After “a very brief encounter”, “a member of security told me: Mr. Trump would like to know if you would like to have dinner with him,” she said. Stormy Daniels describes a hotel suite “which was three times the size of my apartment”. Donald Trump welcomed her there “dressed in silk or satin pajamas”. The conversation is playful, the billionaire promises him an appearance on his famous reality TV show “The Apprentice”, she says. Then this moment when, she says, coming out of the bathroom, she finds Donald Trump undressed on the bed. “I felt the blood leave my hands, and my feet like when you get up too quickly”. If she did not feel threatened, she assures that the businessman’s intention “was quite clear” and the “unbalanced balance of power“. “I ended up having sex with him.”she adds, specifying, at the request of the prosecutor, that Donald Trump did not wear a condom. “I was ashamed of not having said no”she confides.
Stormy Daniels says she ran into Donald Trump a few times, then lost contact. According to his account, when the billionaire launched into the presidential election, his agent advised him to monetize his testimony. An American tabloid, whose boss was close to Trump, had already paid twice to buy exclusive rights to similar stories, never published. “I wasn’t interested in money.”she assures.
The $130,000 was paid to Stormy Daniels by the billionaire’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, via a shell company. He was reimbursed in 2017 by the Trump Organization holding company, expenses disguised according to the accusation as “legal fees” which are at the center of the proceedings.
Stormy Daniels, stretching out on the “chaos” who followed in his life when the payment was revealed by the Wall Street Journal in 2018, responded “Yes” when the lawyer asked her if she hated Donald Trump. She says she wants him to go to prison if he is convicted.
