Stormy Daniels

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Trump Indicted on Tuesday Over "Hush Money" to Stormy Daniels ... (EA WorldView)

Donald Trump may soon be indicted on financial felony charge, over a $130000 payment in Oct. 2016 --- just before election --- to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump shook hands with supporters, posed for selfies with audience members, and met some of the wrestlers. He was already having an effect through headlines in newspapers and across the Internet, with his demand for loyalty accepted by leading Republican politicians. Trump lawyer Susan Necheles said the Truth Social post was based on news reports. Early Saturday evening, Trump attended university wrestling championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was greeted with cheers and chants of “USA! A Manhattan grand jury has been hearing the prosecutor’s case that Trump covered up a $130,000 payment in October 2016, weeks before the US Presidential electionto adult film star Stormy Daniels. A spokesman said two hours later that Trump had no direct knowledge of any indictment and arrest, insisting that he was “rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system”.

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Timeline: The probe into Trump's alleged hush money payments to ... (Axios)

Trump has denied having an affair with her but has changed his story regarding the payment as events played out.

[invited to testify](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/10/trump-invited-new-york-grand-jury-hush-money-probe) before a New York grand jury investigating the hush money payments. [A set of emails](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-used-trump-org-email-to-arrange-stormy-daniels-payment/)released by Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti shows that Cohen used his Trump Organization email account to facilitate the wire transfer for the deal. His lawyer says he has already done 20 interviews with the district attorney's office. September 2019: The district attorney's office issues another subpoena for Trump's tax returns dating back to 2011. Cohen does not address the payment itself but tells the Journal in a statement that Trump "vehemently denies" allegations of an affair. (AMI) admits to in a Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone," he said. - Davidson, who now also represents Daniels, tells the National Enquirer she is willing to share details about her alleged affair on the record. [releases a statement](https://www.axios.com/2018/02/14/michael-cohen-stormy-daniels) saying he did make the payment to Daniels but was not reimbursed for it and that the Trump campaign was not in the loop. Trump has denied the claim but has changed his story regarding the payment as events played out. Donald Trump could soon become the first sitting or former president in U.S. [2018 non-prosecution agreement](https://www.axios.com/2018/12/12/national-enquirer-american-media-inc-karen-mcdougal-trump-campaign).

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The porn star who could put Trump behind bars: Stormy Daniels ... (Daily Mail)

Former president Donald Trump claims he will be arrested on Tuesday over claims he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.

In August, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance subpoenaed the Trump Organization for records related to the payments. This was the first sign of a federal investigation into the matter. Cohen used a statement he claimed was from Daniels to deny the affair. Trump responded by further appealing to the Supreme Court. After the story broke, Daniels was arrested while performing at Sirens Gentleman's Club in a police sting. Trump made his first public comments on the incident April 6. Two employees alleged that Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, threatened to sue the magazine if the interview ran. Trump has always denied the affair. She later began working at the local Gold Club in Geismar. I was just sort of in the middle of the road,' Daniels told the Times about her status in school. It comes more than six years after Trump's lawyers paid Daniels a total of $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair, with New York prosecutors considering if he should face charges. If Trump's claims about an imminent arrest are true, it would make him the first former president ever to face criminal charges.

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Inside the Stormy Daniels hush money payment that could lead to ... (The Independent)

A five-year story finally looks to be nearing some kind of conclusion. John Bowden takes a look at the saga that may lead to criminal charges against Donald ...

Cohen appears before the grand jury, and Mr Trump is invited to provide testimony as well. Just a few months later, it appears that Mr Bragg’s team is taking up the case with an interest that the DoJ and his predecessor never exhibited. Mr Bragg took office in January 2021, the same month that Mr Trump left office. Then, in late 2022, The New York Times reports that Manhattan’s new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, has ordered his office to jump back in to the investigation after leaving it on the back burner for several years. Filed earlier in the year, Ms Daniels had sought damages from Mr Trump for denying her claims of an affair, which she said harmed her credibilty. At least two commissioners believe that there is evidence that the Trump campaign knowingly committed crimes. As part of an unrelated investigation headed up by Robert Mueller into the Trump campaign and Russian election interference in 2016, Cohen’s New York office is raided by the FBI. She is no longer bound by the nondisclosure agreement, which Mr Trump’s attorney did not argue was still valid, but unable to pursue any means of forcing the president to speak under oath about her situation. The issue of whether Mr Trump reimbursed his attorney for the hush payment remains open. Mainstream and left-leaning news outlets are consumed by coverage, culminating in a vivid description of the situation by Ms Daniels herself during a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. More than a year later, the story finally makes it to print in a flurry of media activity. At the time, the basis of her claim took on an interesting angle thanks to a lawsuit she filed against then-President Donald Trump.

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Inside the Payoff to Stormy Daniels That May Lead to Trump's ... (The New York Times)

Manhattan prosecutors investigating a payout to Stormy Daniels may be poised to make Donald J. Trump the first former president ever to be criminally ...

Mr. But Mr. Cohen texted Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen; Mr. Cohen asked Mr. Then Mr. Daniels, Mr. Davidson and Mr. Cohen, Mr. Howard and Mr. Trump; Mr.

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Trump-Stormy Daniels settlement at heart of potential NY DA ... (Fox News)

Prosecutors won't have much of a legal leg to stand on if they indict Donald Trump on violating campaign finance law, according to a former FEC ...

"Daniels had no connection to the presidential campaign of any kind and the encounter — if it occurred — didn't happen during the campaign itself. "No reasonable member of a jury would consider this to be a campaign-related expense that needed to be reported, or to which any other campaign finance rules in the Federal Election Campaign Act apply." A jury acquitted Edwards on one charge of accepting an illegal campaign donation and failed to reach a verdict on the other charges, resulting in a mistrial. In any event, even if the Daniels payment were to be considered a campaign-related expense, unlike Edwards, the nominal $130,000 payment wasn't made by Trump campaign donors but by Trump's personal attorney (not the campaign's attorney) with whom he has a long-standing business relationship. "The state DA has no authority to prosecute a federal campaign finance violation in any event." . Even if one might be able to reasonably construe the payment to Daniels as somehow related to the presidential campaign, there still would be no violation since candidates are allowed to spend as much of their own money as they want on their own campaigns." [indictment for alleged hush money](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime) payments that Trump made as a presidential candidate in 2016. "The alleged one-night stand between Daniels and Trump is far more of a stretch," wrote von Spakovsky. Justice Department, explaining that both agencies have known about the facts for years but have chosen not to prosecute Trump. [in the pocket of President Biden](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/joe-biden) and "radical Democrats." However, experts have questioned the legal reasoning behind such a charge. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!, [sic]" Trump posed to his Truth Social account.

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