STORM DANIELS. The porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump and accuses the former US president of having paid her to remain silent. What we know about the case.
[Updated March 31, 2023 at 12:43 p.m.] Stormy Daniels is now a household name in the United States, but she owes her fame less to her career as a phonograph film actress than to the affair that has pitted her against Donald Trump since five years. Stéphanie Clifford, her real name, is the woman whose silence on her extramarital relationship with the billionaire would have been bought by the former tenant of the White House. Thursday March 30, 2023, it was party time for Stormy Daniels who was delighted to learn of Donald Trump’s indictment. While the indictment must be formalized before a judge on Tuesday April 4, the porn star did not wait to celebrate the news on Twitter by mentioning his many messages of support: “Thank you all for your support and your love I have so many messages coming in that I can’t respond to…I don’t want to spill my champagne.”
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Clark Brewster, showed more measures reminding that the indictment of Donald Trump “is not cause for celebration” but is proof that “no one is above the law”. The standoff that publicly pits Stormy Daniels against Donald Trump has been going on since 2018, when the Wall Street Journal revealed the sexual relationship and the non-disclosure contract concluded between the actress and the then President of the United States. during the 2016 election campaign.
It’s a generous bribe that’s at the heart of the affair between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. A $130,000 payment to the porn actress and director from Donald Trump funds has been confirmed. If the check given to the actress in 2016, at the start of the presidential campaign, was signed by the billionaire’s former lawyer, Michaël Cohen, the tidy sum was indeed reimbursed by Donald Trump. But the billionaire allegedly illegally used campaign funds to cover this transaction.
It’s these disguised payments that prompted Donald Trump’s indictment. The reasons for the payment are also debatable but secondary on the judicial level: the billionaire would have bought the silence of Stormy Daniels concerning a sexual relationship that the two individuals would have had ten years before.
Stormy Daniels claims to have had an intimate relationship with Donald Trump between 2006 and 2007. This still hypothetical relationship is mentioned for the first time in March 2018 after a complaint from Stormy Daniels who sought to invalidate the confidentiality clause signed with the President of the United States. United. Donald Trump, for his part, has always denied having any relationship with the actress.
In an interview given to CBS on March 25, 2018, Stormy Daniels not only confirmed the existence of this relationship but also revealed details. She explained that she met Donald Trump 2006 at a golf tournament at a luxury resort in Lake Tahoe and described a self-centered man quick to show off a magazine he was on the cover of. Also according to her, the businessman who had just become the father of a fourth child, the first of his marriage to Melania Trump, would have noticed her and invited her to dinner in his suite. It is in the bedroom that Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump would have had a consensual sexual relationship, according to the words of the actress X, a relationship that she says she experienced as a kind of transaction. At the time, Donald Trump appeared on television and Stormy Daniels wanted to break into the small screen, notably in the hit show “The Apprentice” of which Donald Trump was the star. She hoped to obtain the favors of the tycoon to immobilize her to earn her place there, reports the Huffpost.
