Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Tuesday that he told her “this is the only way out of the trailer park” before having sex with her in his hotel suite in 2006.
Daniels told the New York jury that she grew up the daughter of a low-income single mother who was away from home for days at a time and that before meeting Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament, she had visited strip clubs and porn. Had worked in. , Started working in literature.
At the time, Trump, a New York real-estate mogul, was the celebrity host of a popular reality TV show called “The Apprentice.”
Daniels’ testimony began with her sharing biographical information and describing her alleged sexual relationship with Trump, including details such as his silk-looking pajamas and gold tweezers in the bathroom of their hotel room during the evening.
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Daniels describes hush money deal
Daniels described the hush money deal that is at the center of the case: Michael Cohen ultimately paid her $130,000 to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with Trump before the 2016 election. She said she understood that Michael Cohen was representing Trump. He said he didn’t talk about dollar figures and cared a little about money but not much. He said that at that time his financial outlook was the “best” it had ever been. She said that at the time she was directing 10 films per year and no longer lived in expensive California.
On Monday, prosecutors showed the court two documents: internal payment records from Weisselberg, then the Trump Organization’s chief finance officer, as well as handwritten notes to Daniels’ attorney regarding the payment. The second were McConkey’s handwritten notes, which prosecutors claim were meant to be payments of money to Daniels.
Goodman, who teaches at New York University School of Law, said during the CNN interview: “They are really incredible documents that Mr. McConkey testified about. I would even say they are close to being a smoking gun. – Joe is important.
“The first document is from then-CFO Allen Weisselberg, which records internal payments contemporaneously in his own handwriting. Remember the prosecutors’ entire argument that this was a cover-up. He did it publicly and in his own business. It was recorded in the record as legal fees but there is a handwritten note indicating there is nothing about legal fees.
“In fact, the handwritten note says, ‘This is to harass him’ – you do not raise legal fees. The exact amount is $130,000 times two to cover taxes, plus $50,000 for the online voting company. And It’s not. Allen Weisselberg wrote it on a little piece of paper.”
