The case began with a golf tournament among celebrities in July 2006 in Nevada, where Donald Trump took an inglorious 62nd place. There he met the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
In an idyllic landscape on the shores of Lake Tahoe, the 27-year-old actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and the businessman Known for his reality television show, 60, They have a fleeting adventure, according to her.
The striking nicknames that started the conflict between Donald Trump and porn actress Stormy Daniels
Nothing suggests that, once he became presidenthe will call her “horse face” and will deny having had an intimate relationship with her. The actress is not left behind and He gives her the nickname “little thing”in reference to his virile member.
At the time the tycoon real estate, which He had just had a son with his wife Melania.he cultivated a playboy image and let rumors spread about the “hunting board” of his adventures, real or fantasy.
In the following months, TTrump promised Daniels a role on his show “The Apprentice.” Contact between them was broken when this project failed, according to the actress. The context changed radically in 2011, when trumpencouraged by favorable surveys, considered the idea of running for the Republican nomination for the 2012 elections against the then president, the Democrat Barack Obama.
The moment where the scandal broke out
Aware of the interest in her story and that, according to her, it would come to light in any case with or without her consent, Daniels agreed to reveal it for $15,000 to In Touch magazine.
He newspaper even subjected her to a lie detector test so that his story was credible but the millionaire’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, He threatened to sue her and she decided not to publish the interview. According to the actressa stranger approached her in a Las Vegas parking lot to intimidate her in the presence of her two-year-old daughter and order her to “forget about Trump.”
In the end, Trump did not run in the presidential racebut the issue resurfaced in 2016 when he won several Republican primaries and then the party’s nomination.
The new interest of the media in the scandal between the model and Donald Trump
The media They became interested again in the history of Stephanie Clifford. Cohen again bought her silence, as he did before with former Playboy magazine model Karen McDougal. trumpweakened by the diffusion of a old recording audio in which he boasts of power “grab” women “by the pussy”wants to avoid another scandal.
After negotiation, the lawyer paid $130,000 out of pocket to Daniels as part of a confidentiality agreement (NDA) signed on October 28 under the pseudonyms “Peggy Peterson” and “David Dennison.”
The statements of porn actress Stormy Daniels
The matter could have ended there if the The Wall Street Journal would not have disclosed the transaction in January 2018, less than a year after Trump took office as president. Initially, Cohen covered for the president and claimed that he had never been reimbursed.
After a few weeks, in March 2018, Daniels asked the courts to cancel the confidentiality agreement. He made statements to the media and embarked on a strip club tour titled “Make America Horny Again,” inspired by the Trump movement’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”
In October he published his autobiography, in which Describes his night with Trump as “the least impressive” of his life and describes her sex in an unflattering way. Cohen, the target of several fraud investigations, agrees to cooperate with investigators and turns against his client.
In August 2018 acknowledges having made the payment “at Trump’s request”.
The criminal process that Donald Trump is going through
Meanwhile the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined the then president’s team of lawyers, let loose when he acknowledged, live on the Fox channel, that lThe Trump Organization did reimburse Cohen. The tycoon was thus forced to acknowledge the payment but assured that he did not use “campaign money.”
Neither the extramarital relationship nor this payment poses a judicial problem, but it is a crime of having tried to hide the refund from his lawyerwhich made Trump is the first former US president to be criminally prosecuted.
Source: Ambito
