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(Trends Wide Spanish) — Stephanie Clifford, adult film star known as Stormy Daniels, is one of the central figures in the court case in which a grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump.
Trump came under investigation for his role in a hush-pay scheme to Daniels: In late October 2016, days before that year’s presidential election, Trump’s then-personal attorney Michael Cohen made a $130,000 payment. Clifford to prevent him from going public with an alleged affair with the former president a decade earlier. Trump has denied the affair.
In 2018, Daniels published a book in which he explicitly described the alleged affair with Trump. The adult film star’s then-lawyer said the book was intended to prove that her story about having sex with Trump is true.
However, Daniels’ post also gave details about his life. Here are some of them to learn more about it.
Who is Stormy Daniels?
The book “Full Disclosure”, by Stormy Daniels, was published in 2018. (Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Stephanie Clifford was born in Louisiana, a state in the southern US. In her book, she revealed that she had a difficult childhood amid poverty and constant sexual abuse.
As a teenager, she moved to California to dabble in adult entertainment. In this industry, where she became known as Stormy Daniels, she Clifford has worked as an exotic dancer, actress, director and producer of pornographic films.
Clifford recounts that in 2006 he met Donald Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. According to her, Trump’s bodyguard took her to her room, where she hoped to have dinner with him, but then there was an intimate relationship.
Stormy Daniels assured that Trump promised to include her in his television program The newbie and that is why he agreed to have relations with him, until the then businessman confirmed to him in 2018 that he could not participate.
In an interview with CBS, Daniels revealed that in 2011 he negotiated to tell the magazine about his relationship with Trump. In Touch in exchange for $15,000, but that the deal fell through because Michael Cohen threatened to sue the publication.
Payment to Stormy Daniels
In 2016, in the midst of the presidential campaign, Cohen negotiated an agreement that included paying $130,000 to guarantee Daniels’ silence. The attorney made the payment from his own funds and later received a refund that Donald Trump claimed was from his money and not from the presidential campaign.
Stormy Daniels broke the silence agreement in 2018 with an interview for “60 Minutes”, where she claimed to have received threats not to comment on the relationship.
Clifford sued Trump seeking to void the hush agreement, but the suit was dismissed and the judge ordered Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal costs incurred by Trump.
The impeachment against Trump
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump in the case, three sources familiar with the matter told Trends Wide on Thursday. This is the first time in US history that a sitting or former president has faced criminal charges.
The accusation was presented sealed and will be shared in the coming days. The charges are not publicly known at this time, a source told Trends Wide.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office informed Trump’s legal team of the grand jury’s decision minutes after it was made public, according to the sources.
Shortly thereafter, Trump responded to the accusation with a statement that began by saying: “This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history.”
“From the moment I walked down the golden escalators of Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as President of the United States, the radical left-wing Democrats — the enemy of the working men and women of this country — have launched a witch hunt to destroy the movement Make America Great Again (“Make America Great Again)”.
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Editor’s note: This article was published on March 22, 2023 and updated on March 30 following the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. With information from Trends Wide’s Juan Carlos López and Sara Sidner.
