Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump trial about alleged sexual encounter and

Daniels testified that her friend encouraged her to take Trump up on his dinner offer, telling her: “What could possibly go wrong?”

She said she agreed to go and went to meet Trump at the hotel where he was staying. 

“I arrived and went upstairs. Keith had given me very specific instructions to take a certain elevator up to the penthouse floor,” Daniels testified. She said the bodyguard told her that Trump was waiting for her inside. She entered and waited in a foyer with a “big, beautiful wooden table” with flowers. It was there where she encountered Trump, she said.

“He was wearing silk or satin pajamas, like two-piece pajamas, that I immediately made fun of him for, and said, ‘Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?'” Daniels remembered. “I told him to go change and he obliged very politely.”

Trump came back in a dress shirt and dress pants, she testified. The hotel suite was “three times the size of my apartment,” Daniels said, describing the room in detail.

Eventually they sat at the dining room table. 

“It wasn’t even dark outside just yet. [There] was still some light coming through the windows. And he said, ‘You know, it’s a little bit early, would you mind like just talking for a bit and get to know each other?'” she recalled, saying they talked about her childhood and “getting-to-know-you” topics.

They also discussed her work, according to Daniels: “He was very interested in how I would segue from being a porn star to writing and directing … He was interested in a lot of the business aspects of it, which I thought was very cool. He asked questions like, are there any unions? Do you get residuals? How are the people paid?”

Daniels also said they had a “very brief” discussion about his wife, Melania. “He said, ‘Don’t worry about it, we actually don’t even sleep in the same room,'” she told the court.

Throughout the conversation, Daniels remembered, Trump would “ask me questions and then not let me finish the answer. 

“He kept cutting me off. It was almost like he wanted to one-up me, to talk about himself.”

Eventually, she said she “had enough of his arrogance and cutting me off and not giving me my dinner.” She testified that she asked him, “Are you always this rude, arrogant and pompous?” and said, “Someone should spank you.”

Trump gave her a magazine, Daniels testified. “I don’t think he thought I would do it,” she said. “So, I took it from him and said, ‘Turn around,’ and I swatted him … right on the butt.”

The conversation turned to “The Apprentice,” Daniels remembered. Trump told her that she should be a contestant, to which she replied: “There’s no way that NBC would ever allow an adult actress on television.” 

“He said, ‘You remind me of my daughter because she’s smart and blond and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,'” Daniels said. She added that Trump offered to tell her what the show’s challenges were ahead of time: “I can’t have you win … but I can give you some advantage to make sure you at least make a good showing.”

Daniels said she and Trump spoke in the suite for “close to two hours.” 

With that, the court took a break. Trump did not look at Daniels as she testified.