Sex, fraud, payoffs, a former porn star and Trump who is in his trial: the background of the Trump trial

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An American president has never sat on the dock before. Trump may even be sentenced to several years in prison in his first of four criminal trials, and if he is re-elected president in November, he cannot pardon himself in this case, because the president’s pardon power only covers those convicted in federal criminal cases, but this case is a national criminal case.

The reception organized in honor of golfing celebrities began with a sumptuous dinner by Gustav Mauler in July 2006. Under the guidance of a chef trained in Vienna, 75 pounds of lobster were served and buffet tables crumbled under fresh hearts of palm brought from Hawaii at the Harrah’s hotel on the border of California and Nevada, on the shores of breathtaking Lake Tahoe.

According to the signs, one of the distinguished guests, a The ApprenticeThe star of the reality show Az Álommeló (in Hungary: Az Álommeló), the millionaire Donald Trump, had a toothache. He was waiting in the penthouse suite on the 18th floor for a lady with whom he arranged to meet during the day.

“He’s waiting for you inside,” Keith Schiller, the trusted bodyguard of the wealthy businessman, told the woman arriving with the small kit, then opened the door. Stormy Daniels – this was the stage name of a lady who could not be said to be inexperienced in the world of adult films – was ready to act, lying on her bed in her pajamas, to the slight surprise of her host. Then he still gathered the strength and got dressed.

“Imagine Donald Trump chasing me in his hotel room in his tight pants,” Daniels later told an acquaintance.

He must have caught up with her, because according to Daniels, they started kissing and then got into bed. “Trump didn’t use a condom,” she recalled in an interview with InTouch years later. It wasn’t bad, he added. During sex, she begged him not to offer money, then mused that if he did, it would surely be a nice sum.

“When can I see you again?” – according to his words, this is how Trump said goodbye to him.

All the spicy details of the golf tournament in Lake Tahoe were summarized by GQ magazine in a novel-length compilation, the title of which is already a message: The strange story of four wild days spent in Tahoe.

The bomb

Stormy Daniels was reportedly not Trump’s only partner at Harrah’s. The other, Karen McDougal, claimed that the future president also later guided her through his residence in Trump Tower in New York, where he also showed him the separate bedroom of his latest, fifth wife. “He likes to be alone,” Trump explained.

The lonely woman, Melanija Knavs, is a former Slovenian top model whom Trump married a year and a half before the wild days in Tahoe. The woman, already known as Melania Trump, did not accompany her husband to the golf tournament. One of the reasons for this is that four months earlier, in March 2006, their little boy, Barron, was born.

Stormy Daniels bragged here and there about who she had sex with at the golf party, but everyone considered this just a spicy rumor, and no one paid attention to it until a decade later, in 2016, Donald Trump announced that he was running for president.

The bomb exploded after the Wall Street Journal aired it in January 2018 citing “persons familiar with the matter”: the president-elect’s lawyer paid one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to a former adult movie star in October 2016, a month before the election, to not speak publicly about the affair with Trump about his alleged sexual relationship.

Hush money – this is the name of the hush money in American jargon, which obliges the parties to discretion.

The agreement was made by Michael Cohen, the senior lawyer of the Trump Organization, with the legal representative of Stephanie Clifford – this is the real name of Stormy Daniels. The White House categorically denied all assumptions related to sexual relations, but the spokesperson refused to answer questions about the agreement.

Cohen did not comment on the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in his statement, but noted that “President Trump once again vehemently denies any events related to Ms. Daniels.”

The lawyer later pleaded guilty to making the payment, among others, to violating campaign finance laws, with the main purpose of which was to “influence the election.” He defended himself by saying that he did this on Trump’s orders, but Trump denied that Cohen had done so. Since publicly acknowledging the payment, the porn star has argued that her non-disclosure agreement has been voided. Cohen “acted like he was above the law,” Daniels said of the lawyer, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 and disbarred from the bar.

After that, the two constitutional indictments, so-called impeachmenta special prosecutor’s investigation and decade-long investigation into Donald Trump by cheating his way into the White House.

The mushroom

A few days after the publication of the Wall Street Journal’s sensational article, InTouch published its interview with Stormy Daniels, and in August 2018, the CBS 60 Minutes program – which featured Stormy Daniels as a guest – set a record with 22 million views.

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“You work in an industry where condom use is mandatory. Used condoms?” – among others, the presenter, Anderson Cooper, referred to the President of the United States.

“No,” Stormy Daniels confirmed gravely.

Not long after, the Full Disclosure, her memoir Full Disclosure, in which author Stormy Daniels writes in sometimes excruciating detail about the president’s genitalia, which she describes as “smaller than average” but “not terribly small.” An “unusual penis” like a “pubescent mushroom” and his fan hair is “yetis”, the Guardian quoted from the book.

Daniels did not comment after his appearance, but his lawyer made a provocative message on CNN to Trump, Cohen and anyone else involved in the case, saying that if they claim that what is in the book is not true, they should prove the description is false.

The book “strongly confirms that my client is telling the truth,” said Michael Avenatti.

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After the “full disclosure” came out, Stormy Daniels finally accepted Jimmy Kimmel’s invitation in October 2018, and on the show, at the host’s urging, she pointed out a mushroom that most reminded her of the president’s ominous body.

The victims

Only one in three Americans, 35 percent of respondents, believe that Donald Trump acted illegally in the case of the hush money – at least this is what was revealed in a poll commissioned by the AP and published on the first day of the criminal trial.

However, according to almost half of the respondents, the former president committed violations of the law in the other three criminal cases pending against him. Half of Americans would find Trump unfit for the presidency if convicted of the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, the fraud committed to conceal the origin of the hundred and thirty thousand dollars: falsifying business books. According to the indictment, they cheated in 34 accountings to disguise the source of the money. Trump previously pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges, and has consistently denied having sex with Stormy Daniels.

Regardless, the scandal that lasted more than six years certainly left wounds in the former first lady’s spiritual life, and the lush details most likely did not do their common child, Barron, good at the most sensitive stage of his development.

The basketball-sized boy, who was born at the time of the alleged fly, celebrated his 18th birthday a few weeks ago, and his height now exceeds two meters by one centimeter. During the criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan already predicted: given the strict procedural rules, it is unlikely that he will allow the accused, Donald Trump, to participate in his son’s graduation meeting.

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The youngest son of Donald Trump and his fifth wife have suffered psychological trauma in the past years, but the criminal trial also has a fatal victim.

The man who doused him with lighter fluid on the fifth day of the trial, April 19, and then set himself on fire in front of the Manhattan courthouse, where Trump’s criminal trial is ongoing, has died.

One of them https://twitter.com/ArmandoCapito/status/1781633481350562212 the stronger nervous ones should not watch it.

It is still unknown what prompted Maxwell Azzarello to set himself on fire outside the courthouse during the criminal trial against Donald Trump.

The key questions

The trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented in American history. No criminal case has ever been brought against the former president.

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The trial may drag on for six to eight weeks, and only the jury was assembled in the first week. The 12 jurors will decide on the defendant’s guilt, if found guilty, the sentence will be announced by Juan Merchan.

The jurors will have to decide on 34 questions: according to the prosecution, they falsified the accounts of Trump companies with the intention of hiding the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars paid to Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels. hush money original source. They tried to buy the woman’s silence before the 2016 presidential election so that Trump’s missteps would not affect his election chances.

In the course of the lawsuit, two other payments will most likely cost the room. The doorman at Trump Tower was reportedly paid thirty thousand dollars not to talk about Trump’s illegitimate child, and Playboy model Karen McDougal was paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to hide her affair with Trump. The defendant vehemently denies these allegations.

Prosecutors say the payments were financed by Michael Cohen, but the Trump Organization reimbursed its top lawyer and fraudulently logged the transactions as legal expenses.

Catch and kill, get it and cut it – that’s the name for the established practice in the US of buying the rights to a story so that it never appears. This practice was also used by Trump during the 2016 election, according to Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan prosecutor representing the prosecution.

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If the defendant, Donald Trump, is found guilty, he could be in prison for more than a decade, Fox News reported.

According to legal experts, a long prison sentence is unlikely, but rather probation or a sentence of up to four years.

If Donald Trump is convicted but happens to be re-elected on November 5th, he cannot pardon himself in this case. According to the US Constitution, the power of pardon only covers federal crimes, a hush moneyand more precisely, fraud is a crime under the jurisdiction of the member states.

The serious accusations did not arouse the interest of the Republican presidential candidate. According to reports, the 77-year-old Trump, who likes to refer to President Biden derisively as Sleepy Joe, snorted several times on the first day of the trial.

In addition to Stormy Daniels, whom Trump now calls “horse-faced”, the crown witness in the criminal trial will be Michael Cohen, the previously convicted lawyer who made the payment.

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The Sixth Commandment

Trump, who publicly brandished the Bible in 2020, apparently threw up his fists at the sixth commandment, Do not fornicate!, according to which “the birth of a new life requires respect and protection just as much as a person’s body, and in love opening up to the other its innermost hidden reality”.

“Continue your fight, Mr. President! We are with you,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister, who professes Christian values, to Donald Trump a year after the indictment. It was not clear from Viktor Orbán’s short post that he called one of his political idols to fight to find out or cover up the truth, just like who is covering the royal plural.

The Twitter message is a clear interference in America’s affairs – this is how the 77-year-old Trump, the ambassador of the United States in Budapest, reacted. According to David Pressmann, Orbán’s post suggests that there was an illegal indictment against Trump. With this, he qualifies the American justice system, intervenes in American law and American domestic politics: he encourages a defendant in a common-law case to “fight” who, shortly before, before the famous siege of January 6, sent his followers into battle.

Viktor Orbán, who was Trump’s guest at the Florida Mar-a-Lago estate six weeks ago, did not react to the news of the negotiations.