Adult film actress Stormy Daniels hinted over the weekend that she plans to testify at former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York. Former President Trump is accused of paying hush money to the actress.
“Obviously, I'm supposed to be testifying at this point in March, so things are getting crazy to the next level. Obviously, that can change at any time – in a hush money case,” Daniels said. said on an episode of the “Beyond the Norm” podcast released Sunday.
President Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged payment to Daniels before the 2016 election to cover up an alleged affair with an adult film star.
New York prosecutors allege that President Trump illegally falsified repayments and made 34 false entries in New York business records related to hush money payments he received for legal services. There is.
Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to making hush money payments at Trump's direction for the “principal purpose” of influencing the 2016 presidential election.
The indictment, filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, makes Trump the first former president to be charged with a crime and the first of four criminal indictments brought in separate cases. .
Trump faces 91 felonies in four separate indictments, but has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His lawyers have repeatedly argued that the hush-money suit, along with three others, is a type of “political prosecution” against the former president.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she first met Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. She claims President Trump invited her to his hotel suite, where they had sex and that Trump suggested she might be on her “Celebrity Apprentice” cast. There is. President Trump has repeatedly denied that she had a sexual relationship with Daniels.
Daniels agreed to tell the story to InTouch Weekly in May 2011, but the magazine did not publish it after Cohen reportedly threatened to sue the company after learning of the interview. The magazine ultimately published an article in 2018, when reports of the alleged affair became public.
When Daniels tried to go public with her story again in 2016, Cohen paid her $130,000 in exchange for signing a non-disclosure agreement less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Subsequent court filings revealed that the Trump Organization paid Cohen a series of reimbursement payments in installments.
Daniels sued Cohen in 2018 to avoid a nondisclosure agreement, and later filed separate defamation lawsuits against Cohen and Trump.
A hearing in the hush money case is scheduled for February 15th.
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