Stormy Daniels's testimony paints a dark picture of Trump's view of sex and power | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump told her that she reminded him of his daughter.
52% : They met one more time, a year later, in a hotel room where Trump was watching Shark Week.
47% : And I just heard the voice in my head, 'Well, you put yourself in a bad situation and bad things happen, so you deserve this.'
45% : When Trump summoned Daniels to his hotel room in Lake Tahoe, he suggested that she might come on his television show, Celebrity Apprentice.
42% : At the time that the deal at issue in the case was finalized, in October of 2016, the Access Hollywood tape had been released, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women by their genitals.
41% : But we need not litigate a definition of Daniels's encounter, or place it into a different category than she does, to say that what Trump did to her in that encounter was marked by a profound sense of sexual entitlement, and by false promises and gestures toward bribery that make it clear he knew that Daniels did not desire him.
39% : For a while after that, Trump kept calling Daniels, asking to see her again.
36% : "I realized exactly what I'd gotten myself into," she told Cooper of coming out of the bathroom to find Trump lying on his bed, in his underwear.
35% : But the focus on technicalities can obscure the gendered nature of the arrangement: at the center of the allegations is an elaborate, multi-party scheme to prevent women from speaking in public about their experiences with Trump - to stop what they know from becoming what the voters know, and to keep their stories of Trump's conduct toward them hidden.
29% : That's what Stormy Daniels - the former porn star whose account of a sexual encounter with Donald Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006 is at the center of his criminal hush-money trial - told Anderson Cooper in 2018.
28% : The hush-money trial that has been proceeding chaotically in New York over the past four weeks is broadly considered to be the weakest of the four criminal cases proceeding against Trump - and, perhaps not incidentally, it is also the only one that will be tried before he again stands for election this November.
27% : But Trump has long had a casual relationship to the law.
24% : Daniels has said repeatedly that she did not refuse the sex with Trump, and that she does not consider herself a victim.
24% : She has always described the encounter as distasteful and unwanted; she has spoken of being afraid of Trump in the aftermath.

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