New York (BLAZETRENDS).- The former president of the United States Donald Trump appears this Tuesday before a judge to hear the charges brought against him by the New York Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged irregular payment in 2016 to the porn actress, Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence and not make public a sexual encounter they had in 2006, although he denies it.
Donald Trump, the defendant
Although the charges against the former president have not yet been revealed, several sources have pointed out that there could be thirty, all of them related to the alleged irregular payment of $130,000 to Daniels.
This delivery of money was carried out several weeks before the 2016 presidential election, supposedly to prevent its publicity from jeopardizing Trump’s aspirations to reach the White House.
Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office alleges that the money came from funds destined for the electoral campaign, a point that is denied by the businessman’s defense, which ensures that the payment was made with his own money.
Trump acknowledged in 2018 having disbursed that money to pay the actress, but insisted that it did not come from his electoral machine, but from his personal checkbook. “They did not come from the campaign. They came from me. In fact, the first thing I asked was if they came from the campaign (because) that could have been a bit shady, ”he declared then.
However, the fact that the payment was made to avoid a political impact in the election could turn it into campaign spending.
Stormy Daniels, the porn star
Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was born in Baton Rouge (Louisana) in March 1979 and is considered by many to be the perfect fit for Trump, who has known how to treat him with the same conceit, sarcasm and insolence.
Daniels, who has a long acting career in the world of porn behind her, claims to have had a brief sexual relationship with Trump during a golf outing in 2006, when the former president was already married to Melania, who he wanted to exploit financially, first in 2011 and later in 2016.
When in 2016, Daniels was looking for a medium to sell his exclusive, the then lawyer of Donald Trump Michael Cohen, gave him the $ 130,000 in exchange for keeping his story secret.
However, their relationship came to light in 2018 and, since then, Daniels has maintained a continuous dialectical and legal fight with Trump and has tried to take advantage of it, publishing a book, selling promotional items or launching a tour around the world. country named “Make America Horny Again”, which could be translated as “Make America hot again”.
Michael Cohen, the bully lawyer who turned against his master
Michael Cohen, who in 2017 went so far as to affirm in an interview with Vanity Fair that he was “the guy who would take a bullet for the president”, pleaded guilty a year later before a federal judge to having violated rules on electoral campaign financing to ” petition of the presidential candidate”, that is, Donald Trump.
In addition, he acknowledged having managed two payments before the presidential elections, one of 130,000 for Daniels and another of 150,000 to the Playboy model Karen McDougal, also to prevent her from airing an alleged relationship with Trump.
Nicknamed the mogul’s “pit bull,” Cohen had been associated with Trump since 2007, when he joined the Trump Organization, eventually becoming his personal legal counsel, a position in which his commitment exceeded the practices that would normally be expected of a lawyer.
“If you do something wrong (against Trump), I’m going to go after you: I’ll grab you by the neck and I won’t let you go until I’m done,” he went on to say in an interview with the ABC channel.
Alvin Bragg, the first prosecutor to sit a former president on the bench
Alvin Bragg, black and of the Democratic Party, began his tenure as New York prosecutor on January 1, 2022, following the conclusion of his predecessor, Cyrus Vance, who also gained notoriety for investigating Trump.
In November 2022, it emerged that Bragg, who had worked in the US Attorney’s Office, had reactivated an investigation into former President Trump’s role in paying Daniels, a case that his predecessor had dismissed.
Since Trump announced last month that his imputation was a matter of days, Bragg has received all kinds of threats, including an envelope with white powder sent to the Prosecutor’s offices, and which later became known that they were not dangerous.
Likewise, she has been the target of verbal attacks and insults from Trump supporters and the businessman himself, who, after learning that the accusation was effective, criticized her on his Truth Social platform.
“They have only brought this false, corrupt and disgraceful accusation against me because I stand with the American People -he wrote-, and they know that I cannot have a fair trial in New York”, wrote Trump, who has not hesitated to describe as corrupt to the New York District Attorney.
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