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Judge warns prosecutors about ‘degree of detail’ during Stormy Daniels’ salacious testimony as jurors struggle to keep straight faces
By Kyle Schnitzer, Ben Kochman, Priscilla DeGregory,
12 days ago
The judge at Donald Trump’s hush money trial scolded prosecutors about the “degree of detail” Stormy Daniels went into as she delivered racy, animated testimony in Manhattan court Tuesday.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan sustained an objection by Trump’s lawyers to the graphic testimony from Daniels — born Stephanie Clifford — noting “the degree of detail” was “unnecessary.”
A fidgety, fast-talking Daniels, 45, said the sexual encounter was “brief” and noted it concerned her that Trump wasn’t wearing a condom at the time.
Daniels, wearing a black kimono-like garment over a tight black shirt, spoke quickly, gesturing with her hands as she recalled her night with Trump when she “pretty much had enough of his arrogance” and “snapped” telling him “someone should spank you with that.”
The adult film actress was referring to a magazine that Trump’s face was on the cover of and which she rolled up and “swatted him” with, she testified — drawing smirks from several of the jurors.
She also recounted that earlier in the night, Trump showed Daniels a few pictures, to which she responded, “Oh, what about your wife?” — referring to Melania whom Trump married a year earlier.
“He said, don’t worry about that, we don’t even sleep in the the same room,” Daniels testified as she scrunched her nose — prompting Trump to shake his head from his seat at the defense table.
Trump, hunched over as he sat during the testimony, motioned to his defense attorney Susan Necheles — who lodged several objections that were sustained by the judge.
Daniels — who at time appeared to glance over at Trump — said she met the real estate tycoon at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe when she was 27 in 2006.
The two exchanged banter, leading to their eventual hook up, she said.
Her publicist encouraged her to skip a work event she didn’t want to attend telling her it would “make a great story” to meet Trump instead, Daniels recalled.
The meeting happened only after Daniels met Trump’s security guard Keith Schiller earlier in the day.
She went to his luxurious hotel suite only to find Trump in Hugh Hefner- style “silk or satin” pajamas — which she told him to change out of.
Daniels explained that she didn’t tell her then-boyfriend and former publicist about sleeping with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee after because she felt “ashamed.”
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