American porn star Stormy Daniels gives in a documentary broadcast from Monday her version of an alleged sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006, an affair which will lead the ex-president to a criminal trial in New York in April.
The film “Stormy” on the Peacock streaming platform tells the story of Stephanie Clifford for almost two hours, thanks to the montage of interviews and archive images.
This former stripper and pornographic actress nicknamed Stormy Daniels became a celebrity due to the legal and political consequences of a brief affair with Donald Trump, which the latter denies.
“Sign a piece of paper to remain silent”
“When I met Trump (in 2006), he told me that he would never want to be president,” says Stephanie Clifford in excerpts from this documentary directed by Sarah Gibson and produced by Erin Lee Carr, already authors of a film about singer Britney Spears.
“But then Trump won the Republican Party nomination” for the 2016 presidential election and “that’s when the shit really started,” breathes this woman born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just 45 years ago.
“All I had to do was sign a piece of paper to remain silent,” she continues on an image of a document giving the transfer order of 130,000 dollars on October 27, 2016, just before the presidential election won by Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
After years of criminal investigation and the historic indictment in March 2023 of Donald Trump, a New York judge on Friday postponed his trial which was to begin on March 25 for this case of hidden payments until mid-April. .
The former President of the United States has pleaded not guilty to charges of disguising the accounts of his real estate empire, the Trump Organization, to hide the $130,000 paid to Ms. Clifford, via Donald Trump's former lawyer who became his enemy juror, Michael Cohen.
According to New York prosecutors and Stormy Daniels, she had to remain silent about the consensual sexual relationship she allegedly had in the summer of 2006 with the man who would be in the White House ten years later and who was already married to Melania Trump.
In this affair which broke out in 2018, Donald Trump is charged with 34 accounting frauds punishable by a maximum sentence of four years in prison in the most serious cases.