The former porn actress Steffany Cliffordknown as Stormy Daniels, stated this Tuesday during her testimony as a witness in the trial against the former president of the United States Donald Trump for bribery that the tycoon did not verbally or physically attack her when they had sexual relations, although there was an evident “imbalance of power” between the parties.
“I told very few people that we had had a sexual relationship because I was ashamed for not stopping it (in time)”he explained in court, adding that, after their meeting, he left “as fast as he could”.
The former porn actress has detailed that Trump, who dreams of a new mandate, did not give her money or his phone “or anything like that,” while he did not ask her to keep the meeting confidential or express concern for his wife. Melania Trumpas reported by CNN.
During his testimony, Clifford has assured that he hopes that the former Republican president will be “held accountable” and that if he is found guilty he will go to jail. Asked by the magnate’s lawyer, Susan Nechelesabout whether she hates him, the former porn actress has responded affirmatively.
Likewise, she has acknowledged that she knew she was at risk of violating the confidentiality agreement when she was interviewed for the program. 60 Minutes. Regarding this pact, she explained that she signed with her real name, although pseudonyms appeared on the paper: Peggy Peterson for Daniels and David Dennison for Trump.
“My motivation was not money. It was to get the story off my back”he highlighted, adding that he learned that Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, was interested in buying the story just after the recording known as Access Hollywood in which Trump bragged about his sexual relationships with women.
“Which was the best thing that could have happened because then I would be safe and the story wouldn’t come out.”testified the former porn actress, who has also acknowledged that she did not say anything to her then boyfriend about the relationship she had with Trump.
On the other hand, Clifford has assured that Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, “wouldn’t stop making excuses” to make the $130,000 payment agreed upon under the confidentiality agreement. “It wasn’t a financial delay, so I was even more worried that something bad could happen. And if it wasn’t done before the election, it would never be done,” he said.
The beginning of the relationship
Clifford has said that he met the former president in 2006 during a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. “It was a very brief meeting”he stressed, adding that his impression is that he was just as old as his father, who was 60 years old at the time.
Donald Trump’s bodyguard, Keith Schiller, asked the actress if she wanted to have dinner with the magnate, to which she declined the invitation. Later, her publicist, Gina Rodriguez, encouraged her to attend the meeting. “I really didn’t have any expectations.”he pointed out.
During dinner, Trump asked her about her personal life, including her family, and also about her work, especially her sexual health. “He was very interested in many details of my business, which I found very interesting”he noted, adding that they spoke briefly about his wife, Melania Trump, with whom he did not sleep in the same room, he confessed.
That same day, Daniels went to the mogul’s hotel room, which he described as “seven times bigger than his apartment” and said that Melania Trump’s husband received her in satin pajamas, something that surprised the young woman, who asked her to changewhich Trump quickly did.
Sitting in the same room, according to Daniels, they talked for about two hours about various topics, such as how many times Daniels had to be tested for sexual diseases in her work as an actress, and the possibility of her appearing on the show. Trump’s television show. They also talked about Trump’s family, and He confessed that he did not sleep in the same room as his wife, Melania..
At one point in the conversation, Daniels grew tired of Trump being so “arrogant and pompous” in his responses and He threatened to spank him with a magazine – in which the magnate was on the cover – on his butt, which he ended up doing..
A day after the meeting, both would meet at a bar where Super Bowl champion Ben Roethlisberger was present. In the weeks that followed, Clifford and Trump called each other numerous times and met again in person in 2007 during the launch of his vodka brand.
“I wanted to maintain that type of relationship because the possibility of being in The Apprentice “it was still in the air”he stressed, alluding to the promise that the magnate made to him to appear on this famous television program.
The relationship cooled after Trump ruled out Daniels making an appearance in The Apprentice. In this sense, he has testified that she stopped answering the magnate’s calls, except when he picked up the phone and the former president told him that porn actress Jenna Jameson would be a guest on the program.
The case
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses Trump of 34 crimes for alleged document falsification, within a plot with which he would have tried to hide the payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels to buy her silence and not talk about the extramarital relationship they had within the framework of the 2016 election campaign.
The charges Trump faces date back to an investigation launched by the Manhattan district attorney’s office following an alleged plan by the magnate to bury several sex scandals in the media.
In May 2011, Clifford agreed to tell her story to a magazine in exchange for $15,000, although she herself explained in an interview given in 2018 to the program 60 Minutes from the CBS television network that a man threatened her while she was going with her daughter to a gymnastics class and she decided not to do it.
Trump’s emergence into politics five years later led to the dusting off of the scandals that had accompanied the magnate during his long public career. The porn actress ended up signing a $130,000 confidentiality agreement in exchange for not revealing this alleged extramarital relationship with the mogul and she claimed that she did it because she feared for his safety.
Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen, who was also vice president of the Trump Organization, arranged the payment by providing said amount from his own pocket and the former president returned the amount hidden in various legal expenses within the company’s records. Cohen was sentenced in December 2018 to three years in prison.
On the other hand, two more secret payments also appear in the scheme: about $150,000 for the model Karen McDougal, who had supposedly had an extramarital relationship, and $30,000 for a former exporter who claimed to know a story of dubious veracity about a son who would have had outside of marriage, which was later discovered to be false.
Both would have received the aforementioned payments so that the tabloid National Enquirerpublished by American Media Inc. (AMI) and favorable to the former president, could buy the rights to these two stories and prevent them from coming to light.
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