2024-04-15 17:07:41
This Monday, April 15, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, faces a criminal trial for alleged irregular payments in exchange for the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he is presumed to have had sexual encounters.
Seven months before the 2024 United States presidential elections, in which Donald Trump (being the first former American president to have a criminal trial) intends to return to the White House.
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Stephanie Clifford, “Stormy Daniela or Stormy Daniels” was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is a renowned 45-year-old actress and screenwriter who works in the adult film industry.
Additionally, she is a member of the NightMoves, AVN Awards, and XRCO halls of fame. In 2010, Stephanie wanted to enter the world of politics as a Republican candidate, but some time later she abandoned the project arguing that she was not “the best person for the position.”
According to Daniels, she had a sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, a year after he married Melania Trump. The actress claimed that Trump tried to buy her silence about her relationship, signing a confidentiality agreement and in exchange for $130,000 so that she would not talk about her relationship just days before the 2016 elections.
In 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump for defamation and to invalidate the agreement, since the former president, while he was president of the United States, would have accused her of being a fraudster.
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Moments later, the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation to determine the former president’s role in said agreement and whether he had violated any regulations on electoral financing in the 2016 campaign, a process that is currently being debated in New York by a judge. .
“Good morning, Mr. Trump,” said the judge of Colombian origin, Juan Merchán, when opening the process in which the former president is accused of hiding payments to a former porn actress to buy her silence during the 2016 campaign.
*With information from AFP
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