Stormy Daniels remains locked in a heated battle with President Donald Trump’s legal team over her account of an affair that she said took place in 2006. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Stormy Daniels: ‘There was no sleeping’ during alleged affair with Trump

Stormy Daniels spoke out about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, framing the reported romp with the former star of “The Apprentice” as a sleepless night.

Daniels took to Twitter to rebuff a critic who argued that “no one cares” about her claiming to have slept with the president more than a decade ago.


“Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago,” Daniels fired back. “There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star.”

The tweet marked some of Daniels’ most direct public remarks on the affair since The Wall Street Journal reported that two weeks before Trump was elected, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence on the matter.

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Daniels’ comments come just days before her highly anticipated interview with Anderson Cooper is scheduled to air on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford but goes by her stage name, remains locked in a heated battle with Trump’s legal team over her account of an affair that she said took place in 2006.

Earlier this month, Daniels filed a suit seeking to nullify the so-called “hush agreement,” alleging that Trump never signed the document.

Trump’s legal team returned serve by accusing Daniels of violating her nondisclosure agreement 20 times, a breach of contract that Cohen says could hand her a $20 million fine.

On Tuesday, it was reported that a lie detector test conducted during an interview with Daniels by “Life and Style” Magazine in 2011 found her to be telling the truth when she discussed her sexual relationship with Trump.

The test showed Daniels responding affirmatively to two separate questions about her encounters with him in 2006.

