NEW YORK — Porn star Stormy Daniels took the stand on Tuesday, offering bombshell testimony on her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament in July 2006. Testifying at Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, Daniels recounted the salacious details, at one point mimicking a sexy pose Trump allegedly struck while perched on the bed of his hotel room.

The former president and current GOP candidate is facing 35 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to Daniels to buy her silence about that evening in his hotel room.

At several points during her testimony, Trump seemed furious and disgusted.

Daniels will be back on the stand on Thursday, but for now, here are the top moments:

Why she met with Trump in the first place

Daniels testified that initially, she didn’t want to meet Trump for dinner.

“F--k no,” she said in response to the invitation, delivered by the then-future-president’s bodyguard.

Later on, though, she was convinced by her publicist.

“What could go wrong?” Daniels, wryly shrugging with a sad smile, remembered the publicist saying.

She ended up agreeing to meet him, thinking it could be a good business opportunity, as she wanted to get into film directing outside of porn.

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