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The former porn star revealed this Tuesday, May 7, the details of her meeting and her sexual relationship with the billionaire, in 2006. The former president is being prosecuted for having falsified a payment aimed at buying his silence.
The accused Donald Trump yawned, shook his head, fumed quietly in the ear of his lawyers but could not sleep throughout the thirteenth day of his trial in New York, Tuesday, after three weeks hearings frequently punctuated by his apparent narcolepsy attacks. For the first time in fifteen years, the former president found himself in the presence of Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, the name she says she prefers to answer to today and under which she became a famous actress and director of pornographic films. The name also attached to the case in which Trump faces today, in the lower Manhattan court, 34 counts of having falsified the accounts relating to a transaction concluded with Daniels, a few days before his victory in the 2016 presidential election, so that she would keep to herself his story of their brief adulterous affair ten years earlier – stubbornly denying him any relationship for years. He faces a fine and up to four years in prison.
“What mistakes could I have made to find myself in this situation?” remembers Stormy Daniels saying to herself, when she came out of Donald Trump’s bathroom to find him in his underwear, looked at her