Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday during Donald Trump’s criminal trial that she was eager to receive the $130,000 settlement. in exchange for silence about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006before the 2016 presidential election because he was worried the former president wouldn’t pay him if he won.

In highly anticipated testimony on the 13th day of her confidentiality trial, Daniels told jurors in New York that she had sex with Trump in 2006 but was determined to keep the incident a secret. he was threatened in a parking lot in 2011.

The woman said she changed her mind during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, when the Republican faced multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

“My motivation was not money, but the desire to get this story out,” he said.

Daniels, 45, detailed the meeting, which ultimately led to the first criminal trial of a former US president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges. falsify business records to conceal payment of money to Daniels be silent.

Trump, 77 years old, He didn’t react while listening to his testimony from the witness stand.

The former president denied having a sexual relationship with Daniels, and his legal team suggested she made up the story while seeking a spot on “The Apprentice,” the popular reality show then hosted by Trump, the New York real estate mogul.

Daniels confirmed that she hopes he will invite her to the show after they meet.

After a lunch break, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche asked for a mistrial, arguing that his testimony was irrelevant to the case based on financial documents and would only “inflame the jury.”

“How can we come out of this in a way that is fair to President Trump?” – asked Blanche.

Daniels said Trump began sexually harassing her after he invited her to his hotel room at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. She stated that he told her: ““This is the only way out of the trailer park.”

Daniels testified that she grew up the daughter of a low-income single mother.

The woman said she “blacked out,” despite not using drugs or alcohol, after Trump blocked her from leaving the room by blocking the door. He said he woke up in bed without clothes.

“I looked at the ceiling and didn’t know how I got there, I was trying to think about something other than what was going on there,” Daniels testified.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she did not ask Trump to stop. “I didn’t say anything at all,” he said, adding that he quickly left the hotel room.

The Republican politician, who was president from 2017 to 2021, says the lawsuit is an attempt to derail his campaign to return Democratic President Joe Biden, whom he faces in the Nov. 5 election, to the White House.

Dressed in a suit and black glasses, Daniels testified that she worked in strip clubs and dabbled in pornography after a childhood when her single mother was often absent for days at a time.

Daniels claimed that Trump met her in his hotel room wearing satin pajamas. He said he was bothered by Trump’s frequent interruptions and asked him: “Are you always this arrogant and pompous?”

Then, Trump dared Daniels to hit him with a magazine and she obeyed. “He became much more polite after that,” she said.

“This is nonsense,” Trump seemed to say as he watched from the defendant’s table.

The supposed meeting took place while Trump was married to his current wife Melania. Daniels said she told only a few people about the episode and saw Trump several times at public events in the following years, but then lost contact with him after he didn’t include her on the show.

Daniels said that in 2011, a man approached him in a Las Vegas parking lot and warned him not to talk about the encounter. “I was scared and didn’t want more of this story to get out,” he said.