Trump is on trial after pleading not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, allegedly in a plot to conceal a $130,000 “hush money” payment to Ms Daniels ahead of the 2016 Presidential election.
Ms Daniels alleges she was threatened in a Las Vegas car park to stay silent when it was first thought the encounter would become public, and she says “my motivation wasn't money” when she later agreed to a payout.
"It wasn't to get the story out”, she said. “It was motivated by fear, not money."
During her testimony, Ms Daniels also claimed she felt an imbalance of power during the alleged sexual encounter as well, with Trump’s “bigger” bodyguard outside “blocking the way”.
“It was really hard to get my shoes because my hands were shaking so hard”, she said, describing the moments after they had “brief” sex. “He said ‘Oh, it was great. Let's get together again, honeybunch’.”
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