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.
[Mis à jour le 31 mars 2023 à 12h43] Stormy Daniels is now unavoidable in the United States, but she owes her fame less to her career as an actress in phonographic films than to the affair which has pitted her against Donald Trump for 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 opposes Stormy Daniels to Donald Trump has been going on since 2018, the year of the revelations of the Wall Street Journal on 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.
Did Stormy Daniels receive money from Donald Trump?
It is a generous bribe that is at the heart of the affair between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. A payment of 130,000 dollars to the actress and director of X films from the funds of Donald Trump has been proven. 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 would have illegally used campaign funds to cover this transaction.
It’s these disguised payments that led to the indictment of Donald Trump. The reasons that motivated the payment of money 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 earlier.
Did Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump have sex?
Stormy Daniels claims to have had an intimate relationship with Donald Trump between 2006 and 2007. This still hypothetical relationship was 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 had any relationship with the actress.
In an interview given to the CBS channel March 25, 2018, Stormy Daniels had not only confirmed the existence of this relationship, but also disclosed details. She explained that she met Donald Trump in 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.