Stormy Daniels will return to the stand today for a second day of testimony at Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial — where she’s expected to resume a testy grilling his lawyers.
During a combative cross-examination Tuesday afternoon, porn star Daniels, 45, shockingly admitted she hates Trump.
Attorney Susan Necheles then accused her of “extorting” the former president, 77, into paying her off before the 2016 election to bury her story about a sexual encounter she says she had with him years earlier.
“You are looking to extort money from President Trump right?” Necheles asked Daniels.
“False,” Daniels replied.
“Well, that’s what you did right?” Necheles then said, raising her voice.
“False!” Daniels yelled back.
Daniels testified her primary motivation for coming forward with her story about a 2006 tryst with a married Trump was not money but rather to “get the story out.”
She had previously sold the story of her encounter to gossip magazine In Touch for $15,000 in 2011, but they declined to print it at that time.
Daniels also testified in painstaking detail about her alleged sex encounter with Trump after he invited her to his hotel suite at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California.
She described to jurors how she spanked Trump with a rolled-up magazine with his face on the cover — drawing smiles from at least two of the panelists — and described him telling her not to worry about his wife Melania.
“He said, ‘Don’t worry about that, we don’t even sleep in the same room,’” she testified.
Daniels also testified her sex romp with Trump was “brief” and the then real estate mogul and reality TV host did not wear a condom, which concerned her.
It’s unclear to what degree Trump’s lawyers will grill Daniels about the alleged hookup, which Trump denies.
If they ask too much it could “open the door,” legally speaking, to prosecutors then being able to ask Daniels to share even more details about that night, according to legal analysts.
Trump is charged with having his personal lawyer Michael Cohen pay off Daniels in a bid to “corrupt” the 2016 election, and then trying to cover it up by fudging entries in his business records throughout 2017.
Trump has pleaded not guilty and blasted the case as politically motivated.
