Trump’s Stunning Come-On To Stormy Daniels To Coax Her Into Bed Triggered His Lawyers Hard — Read It Word-For-Word
According to Stormy Daniels’s testimony, then-businessman Donald Trump made a stunning statement to coax her into bed that has not been reported widely — and which triggered Trump’s lawyers hard.
Tuesday’s hush money-election interference trial featured hours of bombshell testimony from Daniels and a failed motion for a mistrial. The coverage was characterized by media figures alternately tittering and refusing to report details they deemed too “salacious” or “lurid” or otherwise just didn’t get into.
In a court transcript that Mediaite has obtained, one of those largely unreported details includes a vivid and nauseating exchange between Trump and Daniels after she emerged from the bathroom in Lake Tahoe and tried to leave:
Q. What happened when you came out of the bathroom, did he stay on the bed?
A. When I exited, he was just up on the bed like this
Q. What happened after that?
A. And I went to step around. I laughed nervously, and, you know, tried to make a joke out of it, and step around and leave. Even though I was moving like I was in a funhouse, like slow motion. I thought to myself; Great. I put myself in this bad situation, like what did I do, how did I misread everything.
He stood up between me and the door, not in a threatening manner. He didn’t come at me. He didn’t rush at me. He didn’t put his hands on me and nothing like that.
I said, I got to go.
He said, I thought we were getting somewhere, we were talking, and I thought you were serious about what you wanted. If you ever want to get out of that trailer park — basically, I was offended because I never lived in a trailer park.
THE COURT: Sustained. Move along.
THE WITNESS: I am sorry, Judge. I don’t understand.
THE COURT: The objection is sustained.
The judge sustained an objection — but the transcript does not note an objetion. Merchan later noted that “in fact, at one point the Court sua sponte objected because there was no objection coming from the defense.”
The defense found the testimony so damaging, they argued for a mistrial. Attorney Todd Blanche cited the trailer park crack and a list of other details, and told Judge Merchan “all of this has nothing to do with this case. And it’s extraordinarily prejudicial and it’s something that is — the only reason why the Government asked those questions, aside from pure embarrassment, is to — is to inflame this jury to not — to not look at the evidence that matters, but to just hear from this witness.”
Merchan denied the motion for a mistrial.
