American billionaire Donald Trump, 77, appears this Monday in New York in the Stormy Daniels affair, and in particular the disguised payments intended to buy the silence of the former porn star.
This Monday, April 15, the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump opens. The former President of the United States is expected to appear from 1:30 p.m. in Manhattan for a case involving payments intended to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels. Facts which took place in 2016, a few days before the presidential election. The trial is expected to last between 6 and 8 weeks. A first for a former president.
What impact on Donald Trump’s campaign?
While the 77-year-old billionaire is seeking a second term in the White House, he is indicted for 34 falsifications of accounting documents for his company, the Trump Organization. $130,000 was allegedly spent by his team in legal expenses to be able to pay Stormy Daniels and buy her silence after a potential affair. In fact, can this umpteenth affair surrounding Donald Trump really disrupt him a few months before the presidential election?
In a poll published by Ipsos, 57% of Americans said that a “guilty” would have no impact on their chances of voting for him. This could even help strengthen their desire to vote for Donald Trump. In reality, until then, Trump’s legal setbacks have continued to strengthen his popularity among his supporters, denouncing a “witch hunt” to bring him down. This is why this trial is not necessarily intended to shake up Donald Trump, who risks a maximum sentence of 4 years in prison. His age and his lack of prior criminal conviction may, however, help him avoid imprisonment.
“I faced evil face to face in the most intimate of ways”
In an interview with Michael Cohen in 2021, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, Stormy Daniels spoke frankly about her sexual relationship with the billionaire. Crude details, shocking sentences, it does not spare the former head of state. The facts date back to 2006 when Donald Trump was already married to his current wife, Melania Trump. Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, porn star, then have a consensual sexual relationship. But the latter doesn’t have good memories of it, she even talks about the “worst 90 seconds of her life”. “When I came out of the bathroom and Trump was there in his underwear, so confident, I remember thinking, how did I get in there? I felt misled. , fooled” she explains. “I felt like I was nine years old again,” she continues.
If she had not felt “physically threatened”, she had nevertheless, that day, imagined a scenario to escape from this situation by running away, believing that she “certainly could have outrun him”. Also in 2021, she also indicated that she had forgotten what had happened until the film “Scandal” with Charlize Theron made her realize the situation. As she began filming a show on the theme of ghost hunting, she finally declared: “I faced evil face to face in the most intimate of ways, monsters no longer scare me here”.