Stormy Daniels book summary: Adult film star gives Full Disclosure on alleged Trump affair

Stormy has our number, as head into chapter three:

Okay, so did you just skip to this chapter? Quick recap for those just joining us: my life is a lot more interesting than an encounter with Donald Trump. But I get it. Still, of all the people who I had sex with, why couldn't the word obsess over one of the hot ones?

And here he enters: Donald Trump. (Or a person called Donald Trump — the president of course denies much of what is about to follow.)

"Let's go back to July 13, 2006".........

It's a hot day in Lake Tahoe. Stormy's at a golf course. She's with some of her colleagues from the pornography studio. "Our job for the day was simple: Celebrities would come through, and we'd say hello and offer them water or a snack. They could take a photo if they wanted."

Trump arrives. He's wearing "a yellow polo that clung to his stomach where it tucked into his khakis. He had a red cap, a Trump crest as a placeholder for the MAGA slogan none of us could see coming".

Trump was obsessed with Stormy, in her telling. Other actors were there but he paid little interest, and kept returning to the idea that she was a director, too.

"And then his bodyguard came back. He was in his late forties, mostly bald except for a wisp of close-cropped light hair up top. 'Mr Trump wants to know if you can have dinner with him tonight,' he said."

That bodyguard was Keith Schiller, who you've met before in previous live reads.

She didn't want go out with him, she says — she was supposed to be meeting colleagues, anyway. And "what's funny is that sex never once entered my mind. Call me naïve, but he was one of the few straight guys — hell, any guy — who didn't immediately stare at my tits".

She heads to his hotel, expecting to meet him in the lobby. Instead, she's called up to his penthouse. His bodyguard is waiting, and ushers her in. She walks through, seeing if she can find him.

"And Trump came swooping in, wearing black silk pyjamas and slippers."

She calls him a "motherf***er", and says she was "so mad". She tells him to go and "put some f***ing clothes on". Which he did!

He comes back wearing a dark navy suit, and offers her a drink. They found they both don't drink, and that seems to stop her being quite so angry.

"We started talking, which meant he proceeded to go on and on without asking me anything about myself. It was one pretentious brag after another. I will spare you."

He tries to show off about having a magazine about himself, but it isn't working:

"'Really?' I snapped, looking up at him. 'Does this work for you normally?'

He looked perplexed. Like I'd asked a dog an algebra problem. Reader, I was hangry — the volatile mix of hunger and anger.

'Are you so insecure that you have to brag about yourself,' I continued, 'or are you just a fucking asshole? Which is it?'"

He was so stunned, he just stood there. I lowered my voice to growl, 'Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it.'

'You wouldn't,' he said in a quiet voice.

I held out my hand, palm up. 'Hand it over,' I said. When he didn't immediately give the magazine to me, I snatched it from him and rolled it up. 'Turn around and fucking drop 'em,' I said."

She says this was a "power moment, not at all sexual". She was angry and he was shocked, and neither of them would back down.

"'I'm serious,' I said. For a second I almost lost my nerve.

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But he turned, lowering his pants just enough for me to give him a couple of swaps. I got up and tossed the magazine on the side table with every intention of leaving. Because where do you go from that moment?

This is what stopped meme: he turned around and said, in a slow, appraising voice, 'I like you.' He fixed the belt of his pants and added, 'You remind me of my daughter.'"

Stormy leaps into say that this strange comparison with his daughter has been made to "sound sexual" by everyone, but that it was "not a creepy or sexual conversation".

"It was not some perverted, 'You remind me of my daughter. She's so hot.' No, it was, 'You remind me of my daughter.' And these were the exact words he added: 'You're smart, you're beautiful. You're just like her. You're a woman to be reckoned with.'"

He wanted to get her on The Apprentice, for some reason; she didn't watch it. "My friends have asked if I think he was just leading me on, but I honestly feel that it was a genuine conversation."

And onto the alleged infidelity:

"So, are you married," Donald asks Stormy.

"'No,' I said. 'I was, but I'm not now. But you're married. What would your wife think of you being here with me?'

'Oh, don't worry about that,' he said. 'It's not a big deal, and anyway, we have separate bedrooms.' I took that to mean that he no longer saw me as someone to sleep with.