NEW YORK — In riveting testimony at Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial Tuesday, porn star Stormy Daniels explicitly detailed allegations of a disorienting one-night stand in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with a future U.S. president in silk pajamas and hush money she received to keep it secret.

Just feet away from a stone-faced Trump, Daniels, 45, provided an in-depth account of the alleged tryst the public has long known about — now in focus at the historic first criminal trial of a U.S. president — during almost five hours in the witness box. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, described feeling stopped in her tracks coming out of Trump’s master bathroom to find him splayed out half-dressed and later uncomfortable that he didn’t wear a condom.

“Mr. Trump had come into the bedroom and was on the bed, basically between myself and the exit,” Daniels testified, describing Trump as posing in nothing but boxers and a T-shirt and the room spinning in slow motion.

“The next thing I know, I was on the bed, somehow on the opposite side,” Daniels recalled, telling the court she felt the blood leave her hands and describing that she “blacked out,” but not as a result of being under the influence.

“I had my clothes and my shoes off. I believe my bra, however, was still on. We were in the missionary position,” Daniels said. “I was trying to think about anything other than what was happening there.”

Trump, 77, scowled and trained his eyes away from the witness stand through much of Daniels’ testimony Tuesday as the porn star recounted their sexual encounter nearly 20 years ago at a celebrity golf tournament.

At one point, State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan spotted the defendant “cursing audibly” at the defense table and shaking his head. At a sidebar, he warned his lawyers that he’d hold him in contempt for witness intimidation if he didn’t tone it down.

The tryst came after Daniels recounted a two-hour conversation she had with Trump after arriving at his room. She testified that Trump told her that he didn’t share a room with his then-wife of less than two years, Melania; that Daniels reminded him of his “smart and blond and beautiful” daughter; and asked her whether there were labor unions in the porn industry.

Daniels said she ended up at Trump’s hotel room after being invited to have dinner with him by his longtime former bodyguard, Keith Schiller. Identifying the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s presidential election as the man at the defense table in “a navy blue jacket,” Daniels told the jury they first met on the Lake Tahoe golf course in July 2006, when she was 27 and Trump was 60, noting he was “probably older than my father.”

Daniels said she accepted the dinner invitation at her agent’s urging.

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