That’s it: Donald Trump will be formally charged this afternoon as part of an investigation into a $130,000 payment to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence in 2016. Back to the saga involving the ex-president and the porn star.
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The sexual relationship
Stephanie Clifford, better known by her former porn actress name Stormy Daniels, claims she met Donald Trump during a charity golf tournament on Lake Tahoe, which straddles the states of California and Nevada, in July 2006.
In his book Full Disclosure, published in 2018, she says that Donald Trump’s bodyguard would have invited her to dinner, but that it was in fact an invitation to join the billionaire in his apartment. The encounter ended in consensual sex. The former president would also have promised him participation in his reality show The Apprenticea promise he would not have kept.
The book published by the former porn actress cites several juicy details of the sexual relationship. In it, she describes the Trump penis as “smaller than average” but “not monstrously small.”
“He has a huge mushroom head. Like a toad… I lay there, annoyed to be fucked by a guy with Yeti hair and a tail like the character of the mushroom in Mario Kart…”, writes the 27-year-old woman during his meeting with Trump.
“It may have been the least impressive sex I’ve ever had, but obviously he didn’t share that opinion,” she also says in the book.
The payment of $130,000
In 2016, when Donald Trump was approaching the American presidency, lawyer Michael Cohen wanted to make sure that the case would not harm his client’s election. In October 2016, two weeks before the election, he would have paid $ 130,000 to Stephanie Clifford to sign a confidentiality agreement preventing her from disclosing the slightest detail of her affair with the Republican candidate.
Stephanie Clifford says she agreed to sign the contract because she feared for her family’s safety.
Almost two years later, on January 12, 2018, an investigation by the wall street journal released details surrounding the $130,000 payment. Michael Cohen later confessed to making the payment to the former actress.
Shortly after this admission, Stéphanie Clifford sued Donald Trump and Cohen to invalidate the confidentiality agreement she had signed during the 2016 presidential election.
The threats
The first time Stephanie Clifford spoke publicly about her affair with Donald Trump was during an interview with American gossip magazine In Touch Weeklyin 2011. The magazine, however, did not publish the story until 2018, because Michael Cohen allegedly threatened him with legal action.
Stormy Daniels also said she was the victim of threats around the same time, when a man approached her and her daughter in a Las Vegas parking lot. He allegedly told her to “leave Trump alone.”
“She’s a beautiful little girl. It would be a shame if something happened to his mother,” the man allegedly told him.
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When the story was then revealed in 2018, the ex-porn actress was asked to testify in a report aired on the show 60 minutes of the American channel CBS. She claims that just before the episode aired, a company linked to Mr. Cohen tried to dissuade her from speaking out further by threatening her with a $20 million lawsuit.
Stormy Daniels still testified during the report.