In July 2006, the paths of Donald Trump, then a reality TV star, and a porn movie diva crossed during a golf tournament near Lake Tahoe in the western United States.
At the age of 60, the tycoon who would become US president years later, who had just had a child with his wife Melania, posed in a yellow polo shirt and a red cap next to the stunning Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford and who at the time I was 27 years old.
What followed the meeting is a matter of debate
.
The energetic blonde assures that they spent the night together, while Trump denies having sexual relations with the actress whom he accuses of being a "con artist".
Whatever happened in Nevada, the former stripper
was later paid $130,000 to keep quiet
, just days before the 2016 presidential election.
Donald Trump, this Monday, arriving in New York for the court hearing.
Photo: REUTERS
The imputation of the former president
And this payment led to Trump being criminally indicted, something never seen with a former president of the United States.
The New York court suspects that he violated the laws on the financing of electoral campaigns.
A few days ago, when the decision seemed imminent, Stormy Daniels resorted to irony and returned to using the nickname "tiny" with which she refers to Trump, after the Republican nicknamed her "face" on social media. of horse".
The tone between the two, according to the actress, was not always so sour.
Former President Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels have differed on the night they met.
Photo: AFP
To seduce her, in 2006, Trump told her that she was "special" and offered her an appearance on his show "The Apprentice", which did not materialize despite the fact that, according to her, they kept in touch.
In 2011, Stormy Daniels first tried to make the details of the encounter public when
she tried to sell her testimony
to entertainment magazine In Touch for $15,000.
The magazine, however, stopped publishing the interview after being
threatened with a lawsuit
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 was silent, but only until the real estate mogul won the 2016 Republican primary, at which point she resumed contact with the media to try to monetize her story.
Michael Cohen, nicknamed Trump's "pit bull", tried again to buy his silence, as he had already done with playmate Karen McDougal in a similar matter.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, reportedly paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 not to speak.
Photo: AFP
Following negotiations,
the lawyer paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of 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 the
Wall Street Journal
revealed the transaction in January 2018.
At first, Cohen covered for the president and assured that he was never reimbursed.
Meanwhile Stormy Daniels appeared on television limiting herself to smiling.
However, the porn star asked the court since March to annul the confidentiality agreement and began to go to the media and nudist clubs on a tour called "Make America Horny Again" ("Let's make the United States horny again"), alluding to to Trump's own campaign slogan: "Make America Great Again."
In October, Daniels published an autobiography titled "Full Disclosure," in which she says her night with Trump was "the least impressive" of her life and describes her sex uncomplimentarily.
The judicial front for Donald Trump
Beyond the damage to his image, and the coldness that Melania seems to show him, the situation worsened on the judicial level for Trump.
Investigated for fraud in different cases, the lawyer Cohen agreed to cooperate with the authorities.
In August 2018, he admitted to making the payment to the porn actress "at the request" of Trump.
Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined the Republican mogul's legal team, spoke too much by admitting live on Fox that the Trump organization did reimburse Cohen for the money.
Trump was forced to admit it, but maintained on Twitter that he did not use "campaign money."
In four years of the process, the former president has not agreed to testify before New York prosecutors and accused them of having "incriminated a completely innocent person."
Source: AFP
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