In July 2006, the paths of Donald Trump, then a reality star, and a porn star diva crossed during a golf tournament near Lake Tahoe in the western United States.
At 60, the tycoon who years later would become president of the United States, who had just had a child with his wife Melania, posed in a yellow polo shirt and red cap next to the stunning Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford and who I was 27 at the time.
What followed the meeting is a matter of debate. The energetic blonde assures that they spent the night together, while Trump denies having had sex with the actress whom he accuses of being a “con artist”.
Whatever happened in Nevada, the former stripper he later received $130,000 to keep quieta few days before the 2016 presidential election.
The indictment of the former president
And this payment led to Trump being criminally indicted, something never seen with a former US president. A New York court suspects he violated campaign finance laws.
A few days ago, when the decision seemed imminent, Stormy Daniels resorted to irony and returned to using the “tiny” nickname with which she refers to Trump, after the Republican had nicknamed her “horse face” on social media “.
The tone between the two, according to the actress, was not always so harsh.
To seduce her, in 2006, Trump told her she was “special” and offered her an appearance on his show “The Apprentice,” which didn’t materialize despite, according to her, they kept in touch.
In 2011, Stormy Daniels first tried to make the details of the meeting public try to sell your testimony to celebrity magazine In Touch for $15,000.
The magazine, however, declined to publish the interview after being threatened to sue by one of Trump’s closest lawyers, Michael Cohen.
According to the actress, a stranger approached her a short time later in a Las Vegas parking lot to intimidate her and order her to “forget about Trump”.
pay for silence
Daniels remained silent, but only until the real estate mogul won the 2016 Republican primary, at which point she reconnected with the media to try to monetize her story.
Michael Cohen, nicknamed Trump’s “pit bull”, has once again tried to buy his silence, as he had already done with playmate Karen McDougal in a similar affair.
After the negotiations, the attorney paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket under a confidentiality agreement signed on October 28, under the pseudonyms “Peggy Peterson” and “David Dennison”.
Trump was elected and months passed without anything happening, until Wall Street Journal disclosed the transaction in January 2018.
Early on, Cohen covered for the president and assured that he would never be repaid. Meanwhile Stormy Daniels appeared on television just smiling.
However, the porn star has been asking the court since March to cancel the confidentiality agreement and has started going to the media and nudist clubs on a tour called “Make America Horny Again”. , alluding to Trump’s campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again.”
In October, Daniels released an autobiography titled “Full Disclosure,” in which she says her night with Trump was “the least impressive” of her life and describes her sex unflatteringly.
The judicial front for Donald Trump
Beyond the damage to his image, and the coldness that Melania seems to show him, the situation has worsened on a judicial level for Trump.
Under investigation for fraud in several cases, attorney Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the authorities. In August 2018, he admitted making the payment to the porn actress “at Trump’s request.”
Meanwhile, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined the Republican tycoon’s legal team, has been talking too much while admitting live on Fox that the Trump organization reimbursed Cohen for the money.
Trump was forced to admit it, but claimed on Twitter that he had not used “campaign money”. In a four-year trial, the former president refused to testify before New York prosecutors and accused them of having “indicted a completely innocent person”.
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