‘Do you worry about STDs?’: Stormy Daniels’ testimony on Trump affair off to lurid start

The adult film star testifies in a hush-money trial that could land the ex-president and Republican frontrunner behind bars

Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

At 10.30am Tuesday in a New York City courtroom, five words changed the course of American history: “The people call Stormy Daniels.” 

Daniels, now a household name, is an adult film actor at the center of a hush-money criminal trial that could land Donald Trump, the former president and present Republican presidential frontrunner, behind bars.