If it wasn't true she would not have stated it." Her attorney Michael Avenatti said, "Stormy stands behind her comments in the book. On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump touted his friendship with Roethlisberger during campaign rallies in Pennsylvania. The White House did not respond to questions about Daniels' account with Roethlisberger. Trump has never admitted there was a sexual encounter with Daniels, but his attorneys did admit to approving a $130,000 payment to Daniels to ensure her silence. Tollner has acknowledged he has received CNN's messages and would respond, but has not done so as of press time. CNN first published details of Daniels' account of meeting Roethlisberger from her book on Tuesday. I am rarely terrified," she writes.ĬNN has repeatedly reached out this week to Roethlisberger's agent Ryan Tollner for comment. 'I won't tell.'"ĭaniels said she was shaken by the experience. 'Come onnnn,' he repeated in a singsong voice. "Every now and again he'd knock, rapping his knuckles in a line low along the door. "'He stood outside, not leaving,'" Daniels said of Roethlisberger. ![]() She writes she suddenly increased the pressure enough to slam the door. "'Well, no, I am here with your friend,' I said, literally trying to play the Trump card. Did he know he was leaning on the door? Was he just steadying himself? As I got behind it, keeping my face out, I noticed he'd raised his hand to rest it on the door. He looked at the card until I put it in, and I didn't open the door all the way. "'I'm really tired,' I said, awkwardly holding the key card. ![]() "At my door, Ben said, 'Oh, can I see your room?' Do you mind?' he asked again."Īt the hotel room, Roethlisberger asked if he could enter, Daniels writes. "'Is it okay,' he asked, 'if I have Ben walk you to your room?. She agreed, but thought it was strange that instead of sending one of their bodyguards Trump offered Roethlisberger up to walk her to her room. At the end of the night, Daniels writes that Trump suggested it wasn't a good idea for Daniels to walk back to her hotel room alone. 'What did I tell you about this one?'"ĭaniels says she wondered what Trump had told Roethlisberger. "Trump grabbed Ben's shoulder and leaned in. 'I'm not gonna call you on your ho phone.' Trump and Ben both laughed, and Ben recited a second number. "'Is this your real number or your ho phone?' I asked as I typed. Roethlisberger eventually asked, "Do you come to Pittsburgh a lot?" Daniels wrote, before the two exchanged phone numbers. She mentioned the strip club where she'd performed, and Roethlisberger acknowledged that the club was "really nice." She says she sat next to Roethlisberger and chatted with him about winning the Super Bowl, telling him that she was in Detroit when his team won. He made a kissy face like an invitation, and I just nodded." "They were in mid-conversation, but Trump stopped and smiled at me. Shortly before his twenty-fourth birthday," she writes in previously unpublished excerpts. "Trump was sitting in a corner with Ben Roethlisberger. The next night, Daniels says, she went to a nightclub where she was ushered into the VIP section to a couch where Trump and Roethlisberger were talking, and Trump eventually suggested the quarterback walk Daniels back to her hotel room. ![]() ![]() Stormy Daniels, in her new tell-all book, says she was "terrified" by Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger after Donald Trump introduced the two at a nightclub in 2006.ĬNN has an exclusive copy of "Full Disclosure," the book where Daniels details what she says was a one-time sexual encounter with Trump.
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