Story of Donald Trump’s Affair with Pornstar Stormy Daniels
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for the alleged "hush money" payment of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
In July 2006, Donald Trump, a real estate tycoon then, met an adult film actress Stormy Daniels during a golf tournament. Daniels was 27 at the time and Trump 60. His third wife, Melania Trump, had given birth to their son Barron about four months earlier. Not only Stormy Daniels, Trump had an affair with Karen McDougal, an actress and former Playboy model. McDougal had tried to contact a newspaper to publish her story but she was paid off and the story was suppressed. Inspired by Mcdougal, In 2011, Daniels did an interview regarding the same with Touch magazine for $15,000. Anyways, the interview did not get published. Also, Daniels never got paid. Instead, the law she was threatened to keep her mouth shut about Trump. In 19 July 2016, Trump secured the Republican Party's nomination for president. Trump’s attorney at that time, Michael Cohen. Cohen made the $130,000 payment to Daniels in October 2016. The payment was made from Cohel’s personal bank account. When Trump was president, he reimbursed Cohen with monthly $35,000 checks from his personal account and also gave him extra cash.
So Donald Trump becomes the president and nobody knows about his affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Then fast forward to 2018. Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen get arrested for financial fraud, tax evasion and campaign finance violations. He confessed to paying off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Cohen is sentenced to 3 years prison. Daniels recounts her encounter with Trump in her book "Full Disclosure", which was published in 2018. In her book, Daniels said one of Trump's bodyguards invited her to have dinner with Trump in his penthouse. They proceeded to have what "may have been the least impressive sex I'd ever had," she writes in an account that also includes an unflattering description of Trump's anatomy. Trump has denied they ever had sex and has accused Daniels of "extortion" and a "total con job."
Since 2018 the court case against Trumps financial fraud and the about the hush money is going on.
In March 2023 during the trial, Cohen testifies again for three hours. Stormy responded to the questions and has agreed to make herself available as a witness. Now Donald Trump has been criminally charged for directing hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Trump must now grapple with the charges even as he campaigns for a 2nd presidential term in next year's race. Trump denies wrongdoing in relation to every allegation against him. He has repeatedly decried investigations as political witch hunts. He denies an affair with Daniels but has admitted paying Cohen, claiming to be a victim of extortion. Trump will be arraigned, where he will enter a plea, and various dates for case proceedings will be set. His attorneys are all but guaranteed to fight the charges tooth-and-nail in the pre-trial stages, submitting motions in efforts to exclude evidence and testimony they believe will harm his defense.
