Stormy Daniels, an adult film star, claims that in 2006, Donald Trump told her that the only way she could leave the trailer park was if she had sex with him. She was a key witness for the prosecution and secured the first-ever criminal conviction of a former US president when she testified against Trump almost two decades later.Is Trump in troubleOn Thursday, a Manhattan jury convicted 77-year-old Trump of concealing his payment of $130,000 to his attorney Michael Cohen in exchange for Danielss silence regarding the alleged sexual encounter that occurred during his marriage to his third wife Melania before the 2016 election.Daniels stated that if the story were untrue, she would have written a much better version. She provided detailed testimony about her alleged encounter with Trump in a hotel penthouse in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where they met at a celebrity golf tournament. According to Daniels, Trump invited her to his hotel suite for dinner and suggested she appear on his reality TV show, The Apprentice. Allegations or the truthShe mentioned that at one point, she went to the bathroom and returned to find Trump on the bed in his boxer shorts. Daniels recalled Trump saying, I thought you were serious about what you wanted. If you ever want to get out of that trailer park, Daniels claimed that she blacked out and did not remember how she ended up in bed with her clothes off, stressing that she had not taken any drugs or alcohol. She clarified that she did not enjoy the sex that followed but also did not reject Trumps advances. I was trying to think about anything other than what was happening there, she recounted.More on DanielsDaniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, stated in her deposition that she was raised in poverty-stricken Louisiana by a single, uncaring mother. She claimed to have edited the school newspaper, graduated in the top 10% of her class from high school, and been admitted to a Texas university to study veterinary medicine but was not able to pay to attend.She claimed that in order to support herself at the age of 17, she began working as an exotic dancer on the weekends. Later, she transitioned to nude modeling and adult films. She claimed to have been one of the youngest female porn directors, garnered numerous accolades from the business, and got parts in movies and TV series like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.A tough life indeed Daniels stated that the year following the payout was the finest of her life, during which she rode horses, wrote and directed successful films, and brought up her daughter to be an A student. However, she said that after the Wall Street Journal revealed the alleged tryst and payoff in a report published in 2018, her life descended into chaos. She told prosecutor Susan Hoffinger, It blew my cover. She shunned us from the riding stable and her playgroups.In an attempt to establish a foundation for their claim that Daniels lied to obtain financial advantage, Trumps attorneys attempted to depict Daniels as having profited from the attention that followed the narrative of the purported meeting. On her website, they included items for jurors, such as a candle with her image that stated Stormy, Saint of Indictments, and jurors posters from the Make America Horny Again strip club tour she embarked on following the alleged encounter. Necheles attempted to emphasize that Daniels testimony was ultimately incidental to the case, despite the graphic facts.
