Stormy Daniels says sexual encounter with Donald Trump left her ‘shaking’

Mr Trump, who has continually attacked Ms Daniels – who he has referred to as “horseface” – on social media, was seen shaking his head, whispering and prodding his lawyers as Ms Daniels testified.

At one point Mr Trump, dressed in a navy suit and gold tie with his son Eric Trump sitting directly behind him, mouthed “bull—-” as Ms Daniels claimed she had spanked him with a rolled-up financial magazine with his face on it.

Ms Daniels added that the pair had a “very brief” discussion about Melania Trump, who had recently given birth to their son Barron.

She told Mr Trump his wife was “very beautiful”, to which Mr Trump replied: “We don’t even sleep in the same room”.

After spending hours chatting, Ms Daniels said she went to the lavatory, which was accessed through the bedroom and when she came Mr Trump was posing on the bed.

Attempting to mimic his stance, Ms Daniels leaned back on the witness stand, put one hand on her hip and the other behind her head as though she was lying on a beach.

“I just thought to myself ‘Great, I put myself in this bad situation, what do I do?’,” Ms Daniels told the courtroom, as she held onto the side of her neck.

“There was an imbalance of power for sure, he was bigger and blocking the way… but I was not threatened verbally or physically”, Ms Daniels said.

When asking about details of the sexual act, Ms Hoffinger asked Ms Daniels if she touched Mr Trump’s skin – before defense lawyer Susan Necheles objected.

Ms Daniels said she struggled to get dressed following the encounter because “my hands were shaking so hard”.

Confidential encounter

While she had “just wanted to leave” as quickly as possible, Mr Trump told her: “‘It was great, let’s get together again honeybunch, it was great’.”

The former porn star said Mr Trump did not ask her to keep their encounter confidential and did not show any concern about his wife finding out.

But she still only “told very few people that we had actually had sex because I felt ashamed that I didn’t stop it,” she said.

The former porn star detailed several other meetings she had with Mr Trump in 2007, including at a Trump Vodka launch where she met Playboy model Karen McDougal, before the pair lost contact the following year.

Speaking about the $130,000 payment she received for her story about Mr Trump, Ms Daniels said she was not interested in the sum of cash.

Ms Daniels said the figure didn’t matter because she was “motivated out of fear, not money” after a man had threatened her in a car park to keep quiet about their alleged tryst after she gave an interview to In Touch magazine in 2011.

Mr Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

He also denies ever having a sexual encounter with Ms Daniels.

The trial continues.