Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who could put Trump on the dock

Donald Trump he could become the first former president and White House candidate to be indicted. It would be for a payout of $130,000 porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for the silence of the sexual relationship between the two in 2006.

A Manhattan grand jury empaneled for the trial is still in session. There is no set deadline for a decision (despite Trump’s announcement that he will be arrested this Tuesday) and the case could still be resolved without charges. Despite this, the latest moves by the Prosecutor’s Office suggest that an indictment will soon arrive in which a porn actress and two lawyers play the main roles.

Porn actress

Stormy Daniels. Born Stephanie Gregory Clifford in Louisiana in 1979, Daniels stumbled into the world of striptease at the age of 17, but her career in porn movies led her to meet Trump in 2006. It was at a golf tournament and, How would she impressed, the tycoon suggested that he could put her in the program he was running at the time: Novice. The meeting would end in what Daniels said was “the least impressive relationship” of his life in the tycoon’s penthouse at Harrah’s Hotel in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

An actress would do the first attempt to get a fragment of his meeting with the former president in 2011 coming to give an interview for a magazine life and style for $15,000. The publication reportedly decided to shelve the story after legal threats from Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen.

The second attempt is the one that could end the impeachment of the former president. In the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, Daniels reportedly threatened to go public with her sexual relationship with Trump. After negotiations, Michael Cohen would pay him $130,000 in exchange for signing a confidentiality agreement. The payment would be camouflaged within the presidential campaign finance structure as payment for legal services.

Two years later, in 2018, Daniels canceled the non-disclosure agreement, saying it was invalid because it was signed by Cohen instead of the millionaire’s signature. The lawsuit would end up releasing Daniels from confidentiality obligations from affair This was already public knowledge.

Convicted lawyer

Michael Cohen. In addition to being his personal lawyer, Cohen has long been Trump’s point man. In 2018, he admitted to making both a $130,000 payment to Daniels and a second payment to another woman.

He is currently cooperating with prosecutors after being sentenced to three years in prison – most of which was served under house arrest – for crimes committed in the service of Trump.

current defender

Robert Costello. Attorney Robert Costello served as legal advisor to Trump and Cohen, in addition to defending other allies of the magnates such as Rudy Giuliani or Steve Bannon. He advised Cohen during the pretrial phase of the trial, but never officially became his attorney. Costello’s call to testify with the defense could mean his testimony could serve to overturn Cohen’s.