Former President Donald Trump has been defendant in New York of criminal charges for the alleged money payments to silence the actress adult film Stephanie Clifford, known as stormy daniels. She is a 44-year-old woman from Louisiana, and a well-known personality for more than two decades in the porn industry.

It is she, with her account of the facts, who can put against the ropes to the former president of the United States who seeks to be re-elected as Republican presidential candidate of 2024.

The purpose of these alleged payments would have been to avoid a scandal before the 2016 US elections, after which Trump was named president of the United States. Something that the ex-president categorically denies, and says that the payment was made to stop the “false and extortionist accusations” of him.

The sexual encounter in 2006

The sexual encounter that Daniels narrates is would have produced in 2006a year after he married his third wife, Melania, during a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.

According to Daniels’ account in an interview on the ‘CBS’ channel in 2018, he invited her to dinner and they did it in his hotel suite. Trump showed her a copy of a golf magazine with her picture on its cover, and she suggested that he wanted to “whack” him. “She turned around and pulled her pants down a little bit, you know, she had underwear on and stuff, and I just hit her a couple of times,” Daniels recounted.

At a time when she went to the bathroom, the ex-president would have “perched” on the edge of the bed. “I realized exactly what I had gotten myself into. And I thought, here we go,” Daniels explained in that interview on the ’60 Minutes’ show. She said the two had consensual sex.

After this meeting, and always according to the actress’s account, Trump would have called her several times and they would have met again in July 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles to talk about her possible appearance on Trump’s ‘Celebrity’ show. Apprentice’.

Daniels said that he wanted to have sex at the hotel again, but she refused. A month later, Trump would have called her to tell her that he had not been able to get her to participate in her program.

Payments to prevent it from coming to light

On October 28, 2016, in the last days before the presidential elections, Daniels signed a confidentiality agreement in which she promised not to speak publicly about her relationship with him in exchange for a payment of $130,000according to documents filed in federal court in Los Angeles.

The pact was signed by Keith Davidson, his attorney at the time, and Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal attorney and mediator. The document included a place for Trump’s signature, but he never signed it.

In 2018, after The Wall Street Journal reported on the payment to Daniels, Cohen publicly stated that paid him with his own money and that Trump did not order him to do so. Daniels sued Trump and Cohen seeking to void the agreement.

After that, Trump’s lawyers acknowledged that he did not sign the confidentiality agreement and would not seek to enforce it. A judge dismissed his lawsuit because the matter was settled.

The last step: a lawsuit for defamation

Daniels filed a defamation lawsuit in 2018 against Trump’s federal court over a Twitter post in which he accused her of “fraud” after she described having been threatened for posting the alleged sexual relationship with him on her networks.

A Los Angeles-based federal judge ruled in 2018 that Trump’s comments were not defamatory and were protected by the First Amendment guarantee of free speech to the US Constitution. The judge’s decision was upheld on appeal and the United States Supreme Court. In 2021 he refused to review the matter.

Stormy Daniels: “I don’t want to spill champagne either”

The porn actress Stephanie Clifford, has thanked her Twitter followers for the support she has received after the formal accusation against former President Donald Trump.

“Thank you all for your support and love! I have so many messages that I can’t reply. I don’t want to spill champagne either,” he said in a short tweet.

The actress has also given thanks for the many requests for merchandising and autographs that she has been receiving since the news broke. “Thank you for that too, but you have to wait a few more days for the shipment,” she has warned her followers.