2024-05-08 03:01:00
Former porn actress Stormy Daniels said this Tuesday in his statements as a witness in the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump who hates the republican politician and who wants him to go to jail if he is found guilty. The adult film director and screenwriter also made those comments when Trump’s defense asked her about publications with those same messages that she had shared on her social networks.
The Republican candidate for this year’s presidential election faces 34 charges, including falsifying business documents to help cover up his extramarital affair with Daniels, in the final stretch of the 2016 elections, which the magnate won against Hillary Clinton. . If found guilty he could face several years in prison.
“Imbalance of power”
Prosecutors questioned Daniels for more than two hours, during which she described a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, when she was 27 years old and the mogul was 59. In her statements Daniels detailed how after an hours-long conversation in a luxurious Nevada hotel they had sex without using condoms.but he said he did not remember how they got to the bed, despite not having taken alcohol or drugs.
Nervous, the witness said that she met Trump at a golf tournament and worked in public relations for the porn film company Wicked Entertainment. “I knew he was older, probably older than my father,” Daniels said a few meters from the magnate. The Prosecutor’s Office showed a photo of the two at golf, Trump in a yellow shirt and hat and she in a black top hugging.
“Mr. Trump said he wanted to have dinner with me,” said the witness, who recounted how she arrived at the hotel suite, “three times bigger than my apartment,” where the magnate was waiting for her in one of the rooms with flowers and in pajamas. of silk. Daniels said she went to the bathroom and when she returned to the room Trump was on the bed in his boxers and a T-shirt. “I was surprised,” the former porn actress said, adding, “I didn’t expect anyone to be there, especially without a lot of clothes.”
“I was not threatened verbally or physically” although there was a “power imbalance,” he stated Daniels. “I felt ashamed for not stopping it, for not saying no”confessed Daniels, who assured that he told “very few people” about his experience. Trump always denied that he had sexual relations with Daniels. “Is it correct that he hates President Trump?” attorney Susan Necheles asked Daniels, to which she responded, “Yes.”
The 130 thousand dollars of discord
After hearing Daniels’ statements, Trump’s defense sought to force a mistrial due to the explicit nature of the comments of the former porn actress. Judge Juan M. Merchan agreed with Trump’s legal team that prosecutors should not have asked some of the questions they asked Daniels, but he did not believe that merited overturning the trial.
Trump listened to the statements looking ahead with a frown and after the lunch break, as has been customary in recent weeks, he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for long periods of time. Over the course of several weeks of the trial, the first of its kind for a former president, Daniels’ former lawyer, Keith Davidsonsaid Trump negotiated a $130,000 payment in 2016 to buy Daniels’ silence through a confidentiality agreement that would hide the affair with the tycoon 10 years ago.
The intermediary in that negotiation was Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and right-hand man, who is expected to be one of the prosecution’s star witnesses. Trump’s defense hinted to the jury that this payment could be considered extortion by the actress and her lawyer. However, Ella Daniels said that money was not the reason she agreed to the deal and that she wanted a settlement to be reached quickly because she was concerned about a threat she received.
In turn, the defense tried to paint, repeatedly, the actress as a liar driven by greed, using excerpts from an autobiographical book in which Daniels tells her story with a different version of the events. The process will resume on Thursday, after Judge Merchan decreed that Wednesdays serve as a pause while the trial continues.
1715150256
#porn #actress #Stormy #Daniels #detailed #sexual #encounter #Trump #trial #president #alleged #bribery #advances