NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president, fended off accusations she’d made up the story during hush mney trial testimony Thursday.

As the day’s witnesses wrapped up, Judge Juan Merchan denied a request from Trump’s defense team to scale back the gag order in the case so Trump could respond to Daniels’ allegations about the alleged episode – which Trump has denied.

“He needs an opportunity to respond to the American people,” Todd Blanche said.

ADA Chris Conroy argued that doing so would put witnesses and future witnesses in the case in danger — and said that Trump just wanted to attack Stormy Daniels. Merchan denied the defense’s request, telling Blanche he couldn’t take Trump’s word.

“Your client’s track record speaks for itself,” he said.

Daniels grilled over tryst account

Keying in on a central part of Daniels’ testimony about her encounter with Trump, defense lawyer Susan Necheles during hush money trial proceedings Thursday skeptically asked Daniels about having appeared in porn movies with “naked women and naked men” yet being startled by Trump on a bed in a t-shirt and boxers.

Daniels said that coming out of the bathroom to find a man twice her age “in his underwear, you’re not expecting to be there” was different.

“This was not the first time in your life someone had made a pass at you?” Necheles asked at one point.

“It is the first time they had a bodyguard standing outside the door … and were in their underwear and were twice my age,” Daniels shot back.

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