How Donald Trump must have dreaded this day.
On Tuesday, Stormy Daniels stepped into the witness stand at the former president’s criminal trial (he faces 34 charges of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to women, including Daniels, with whom he is accused of having adulterous sex in order to hide his behaviour from voters in the run-up to the 2016 election). She was there to attest to their alleged encounter in his hotel room in 2006.
It was, as you might expect from the woman who gave us such an accomplished pen portrait of Trump’s penis in her 2018 book – “smaller than average… but not freakishly small…A huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool” – her testimony was resplendent with vivid detail. So much so that Trump’s defence lawyer Susan Necheles called for a mistrial due to the “unduly and inappropriately prejudicial” account. The request was denied. The judge conceded that Daniels had occasionally strayed from the central facts of the case, but not to any trial-endangering degree.
So her description of the sight of Trump stripped to his boxers and T-shirt........