Porn actress Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump trial | iRADIO

Clifford, better known by her pseudonym Stormy Daniels, claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, about a year and a half after the New York businessman married Melania Knavs. In October 2016, Trump’s lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, paid Clifford $130,000 to keep her story out of the public eye during the height of the election campaign. The payment is a key point in the indictment against the former head of state, who prosecutors say falsified financial records in an attempt to conceal the transaction.

In the first part of her testimony, Clifford said that Trump invited her to his hotel suite in the summer of 2006 after they met at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California, where her film studio was one of the sponsors. At the same time, the prosecution showed the jurors a photo from the event in which the couple is captured together.

Clifford described the meeting in great detail and talked about Trump’s clothes, the furnishings of the apartment and the topics of their evening conversation. According to her, when asked about his wife, Trump replied that he didn’t have to worry because “we don’t even sleep in the same room.”

An eloquent witness

The AP described Clifford as a cheerful and articulate witness. Today, the 45-year-old woman was speaking so fast that prosecutor Susan Hoffinger and later Judge Juan Merchan urged her to slow down. Trump, 77, repeatedly showed disapproval during her testimony by shaking his head or muttering remarks in the direction of his lawyers, according to reporters in court. According to the AP, he listened with a bitter expression.

Clifford’s story has been known for six years, but now the actress is telling it for the first time while the ex-president is in the same room, noted The New York Times. Trump insists there was no affair, and his team describes Clifford as a fraud who was after fame and money.

Her appearance comes in the fourth week of the trial of Trump, who is the first former president in the history of the United States to be indicted and faces a total of four charges. He is charged in New York with 34 counts of forging checks and other financial documents. Prosecutors say he did it after his election when he reimbursed Cohen for money paid to Clifford and billed the payments as legal expenses.

If convicted, Trump would face jail time, but as a person with no prior convictions, he could get away with probation. The ex-president is portraying the trial, like his other cases without evidence, as a politically motivated prosecution aimed at derailing his re-election campaign.

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