In July 2006, then-reality star Donald Trump and a porn diva crossed paths during a golf tournament near Lake Tahoe in the western United States. At the age of 60, the future US president, who had just had a son 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 was 27 years old 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 sexual relations with the actress whom accused of being a “swindler”. Whatever happened in Nevada, the former stripper she later received $130,000 to keep quieta few days before the 2016 presidential elections. And this payment got Trump criminally indicted, something never seen with a former president. 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 used the nickname of “tiny” with which he refers to Trump, after the Republican nicknamed him on social networks “horse face”. The tone between the two, according to the actress, was not always so sour.
To seduce her, in 2006, Trump told him he was “special” and offered him an appearance on his program “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 by trying 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 shortly after her in a Las Vegas parking lot to intimidate her and order her to “forget about Trump.”
Daniels was silent, but only until the real estate mogul won the 2016 Republican primary, moment in which she resumed contact with the media to try to monetize her story. Michael Cohen, nicknamed Trump’s “pit bull”, tried again to buy her silence, as he had already done with playmate Karen McDougal in a similar matter. Following negotiations, the attorney paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of her 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, claiming he was never reimbursed. While Stormy Daniels appeared on television limiting himself to smiling.
However, the porn star asked the court since March to annul the confidentiality agreement and began going to the media and strip clubs on a tour called “Make America Horny Again” (“Let’s get America excited again”), alluding to Trump’s own campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again” (“Let’s 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. Beyond the damage to her image, and the coldness that Melania seems to show her, the situation worsened on the judicial level for Trump. Investigated for fraud in different cases, attorney Cohen agreed to cooperate with authorities. In August 2018, he admitted to having made the payment to the porn actress “at the request” of Trump.
Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined the Republican tycoon’s legal team, spoke of more when he admitted live on Fox that the Trump organization did reimburse Cohen for the money.
Trump he 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.”
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