New York: When Donald Trump met Stormy Daniels, their fling seemed fleeting: He was a 60-year-old married mogul at the peak of reality television fame, and she was 27, not half his age, a Louisiana native raised in poverty and headed to pornographic stardom.
But that chance encounter in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, some two decades ago set off a chain of events that has brought the nation the first criminal trial of an American president.
On Tuesday (New York time), Daniels took the stand at that trial, bringing the former president face to face with the porn actor at the centre of his case.
The charges stem from her story of sex with Trump during that 2006 celebrity golf tournament in …