The former porn film actress Stormy Daniels, at the center of the case that put Donald Trump in the dock, described this Tuesday his 2006 sexual encounter that precipitated the former president’s trial. What was he like and what did he say?
Besides donald trump77, is accused of falsifying 34 accounting documents to conceal the payment of $130,000 intended to buy Daniels’ silence, in the final stretch of the 2016 elections, which the Republican magnate won against Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump trial: the testimony of Stormy Daniels, the former porn actress
Trump sent the payment to the former actresswhose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as legal expenses of his then personal lawyer Michael Cohenwho had advanced the money from his pocket, through the family business Trump Organization.
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Daniels’ testimony was one of the most anticipated moments of this trial.
He Daniels testimony It was one of the most anticipated moments of this trial that entered the third week and that shed light behind the scenes of his 2016 campaign when past sexual scandals stalked him.
“The prosecution calls Stormy Daniels,” said prosecutor Susan Hoffingerbefore the impassive gaze of the tycoon, dressed in a blue suit and gold tie, flanked by his lawyers in the ancient Manhattan courtroom.
daniels45 years old, in a black suitbegan to explain his difficult childhood and his participation in the porn industry. Nervous, The witness told how she met Trump at a golf tournament when he was 27 years old and working in public relations for the porn film company Wicked Entertainment.
“I knew he was older, probably older than my father.”said Daniels a few meters from the magnate. The prosecution shows a photo of the two at golf, Trump in a yellow shirt and hat and she in a black top hugging.
“Mr. Trump said he wanted to have dinner with me”said the witness who recounted how she arrived at the hotel suite, “three times bigger than my apartment,” where the magnate was waiting for her in one of the rooms with flowers and in silk pajamas that she later changed into a shirt and pants. street
“I felt ashamed for not stopping it, for not saying no,” said Stormy Daniels, the former porn actress.
Daniels said that he went to the bathroom and that when he returned to the room Trump “was in bed” in his boxers and a T-shirt. “I was surprised,” he said. “I didn’t expect anyone to be there, especially without a lot of clothes.”
“The intention was quite clear,” he said. before adding that she asked herself how she had “put herself in this compromising situation.” “I was not threatened verbally or physically” although there was an “imbalance of power.”
He said they had sex in bed, “in the missionary position,” and that Trump did not use a condom. “I felt ashamed for not stopping it, for not saying no,” confessed Daniels, who assured that he spoke about it to “very few people.”
Trump denied having sexual relations with Daniels. This is the first time Daniels has come face to face with the tycoon who denigrated her for years, even when he was in the White House.
What will happen to the trial of Donald Trump
He judge Juan Merchanwho presides over the trial, He prohibited the Republican from talking about the witnesses on his social networks, as well as the jury and court staff and their families. After imposing fines of $10,000threatened him with jail if he continued to disobey his orders.
Of be declared guilty by the popular jury that will seal his fate, the republican could even be sentenced to jailalthough this will not prevent him from assuming the presidency if he wins in November against his current rival, President Joe Biden, whom he blames for sitting in the Manhattan courthouse instead of campaigning.
The accusations that Donald Trump maintains in different states of the United States
In addition to the New York case, Trump was impeached in Washington and Georgia of cconspire to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Biden wonand taking highly secret documents to his Florida home that could compromise the security of the State at the end of his presidency in 2021.
