United States of america: Adult film star Stormy Daniels has built a lucrative business empire around her alleged sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006 and has earned a legion of fans with her candid responses to those who accused her of being an immoral woman.
The alleged encounter is now at the center of the former US president’s first criminal trial, with Daniels, 45, set to appear for the prosecution on Tuesday.
Trump, 77, is accused of paying $130,000 to former lawyer Michael Cohen to keep Daniels quiet before the 2016 election about an alleged sexual encounter that occurred while he was with his third wife, Melania. Was married to.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments and has denied the encounter. Trump’s lawyers unsuccessfully tried to block her testimony, claiming she would tell “fabricated stories.”
Daniels has played his role as Trump’s primary opponent, the Republican challenger to Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election.
In the documentary streaming service Peacock, which launched March 18, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said being at the center of the scandal and facing constant attacks from Trump supporters online has taken an emotional toll on her.
This hasn’t stopped him from repeatedly mocking Trump as well as critics of his style. “A major network spent a lot of money making a documentary about me and I got a chance to testify against Tiny!” he wrote in a Feb. 6 social media post, in an apparent reference to Trump.
“Look at me! Living the American dream while working a job I love!” Daniels wrote while responding to a user on the social media platform X who had insulted him.
The strange nature of the case has prompted criticism across the political spectrum that the charges brought by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg are not as serious as Trump’s other state and federal criminal cases, which come as he seeks to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Let’s concentrate efforts and deal with it. Government documents after leaving the White House.
Bragg has countered that the hush money case is about Trump’s alleged plan to corrupt the 2016 election.