The members of the jury declared guilty of all positions to the former president Donald Trump, in a historic trial that took place in New York, USA, for falsify business documents to cover up a payment of money in exchange for silence to the porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 elections.
Trump, 77 years old, he is the first former president in US history to receive a criminal conviction. Throughout the process, the mogul has pleaded not guilty and denies having had the alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Daniels.
The guilty plea could upend the 2024 presidential race, in which Trump, the Republican candidate, aspires to take the White House to Democratic President Joe Biden in an election that will be held on November 5. In any case, the conviction will not prevent him from competing for the presidency.
Donald Trump was convicted by a jury in the US and could receive up to four years in prison
He faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison, although others convicted of that crime usually receive shorter sentences, fines or probation. Imprisonment would not prevent him from campaigning, nor from taking office if he won.
Judge Juan Merchan set the sentencing for July 11, three days before the start of the Republican National Convention in which Trump’s formal nomination for the presidency is expected.
Merchan thanked the jurors for their service. “No one can force you to do anything you don’t want to do. The choice is yours,” Merchan said.
The 45th president of the United States (2017-2021) was found guilty of 34 charges, accused of falsifying accounting documents for his empire, the Trump Organization, to hide a payment of $130,000 to the former actress to avoid a sexual scandal at the end of his 2016 presidential campaign.
Donald Trump’s history with porn actress Stormy Daniels, at the center of the conflict
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 years old, They have a fleeting adventure, according to her.
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.
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 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.”
Source: Ambito
