Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s hush money case: Live updates

The contract included a list of eight names that Daniels provided. Those were the friends she told the story to.

She was concerned that the payment was late, not necessarily because of the money but because she was worried that if Trump won and “got what he wanted,” she would continue to feel unsafe with her story out there.

Judge Merchan excuses the jurors for lunch.

There was a four-day deadline to pay, says Daniels.

“I was afraid if it wasn’t done before the nominations and things that it wasn’t safe and he wouldn’t pay. … The election, is what I meant to say.”

Daniels says Rodriguez told her that Cohen and Trump were interested in buying her story, which she didn’t want to get out.

She didn’t negotiate the dollar figure as money wasn’t her concern.

Her life and career at the time were “good, very good,” but she was motivated out of “fear” to ensure the story would be buried.

We see Keith Davidson’s 11 October 2016 email to Cohen laying out the terms of the settlement.

Merchan has sustained several objections over Hoffinger’s line of questions that appear to lead the witness.

Hoffinger tried to ask what Rodriguez told her after Access Hollywood. “In a nutshell–” Objection.

In January 2011 in Las Vegas, while in a parking lot walking to a mommy-and-me workout class with her daughter, Daniels says a man approached her and “threatened me to not continue to tell my story.”

She didn’t tell the police “because he told me not to say anything and I was scared”.

Daniels didn’t tell her boyfriend because he “was struggling mentally with some postpartum stuff with our daughter and alcoholism. I had never told him I had sex with Trump and to tell him then now while the world was exploding would not have been good at all.”

Later that year, the story of her encounter appeared on the gossip website The Dirty.

Her manager Gina Rodriguez said she would get her attorney to take it down.

Years later, when Trump launched his campaign, Rodriguez suggested she try to sell her story again.

Daniels testifies that she was contacted by InTouch magazine in 2011, and agreed to do an interview because she’d “rather make the money than someone make money off me” and “could try to control the narrative”.

She was offered $15,000. She just had a daughter and was not working at the time. It was a 10-20 minute interview, and she didn’t divulge all the details from her 2006 encounter with Trump.

InTouch never ran the story.

Hoffinger asked to approach the judge. Counsel are chatting now.

Daniels is sitting with her glasses on top of her head, adjusting her hair, and folding her hands in her lap while glancing around the room.

Trump is leaning to his left as defence attorney Emil Bove speaks in his ear.

Daniels is asked, for the next three years — January 2008 through 2011 — what was life like?

She directed movies, got married, had her daughter, and “became a nationally ranked equestrian”.

Merchan: “I’ll allow it.”

They arrived at Trump’s “bungalow” where Schiller escorted her to Trump.

He was busy, on the phone, taking several phone calls, and watching television.

“He kept trying to make sexual advances” like touching her leg and “scooting closer” to her.

“I told him no I was on my period.”

They barely spoke about The Apprentice. It was the last time they met in person. Trump later called her to say that he could not get her on the show.

He called a couple more times and she didn’t answer.

Trump called another time to tell her that he didn’t know that adult film star Jenna Jameson would be on the show.

“He thought I was going to be mad. I didn’t care.”