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Stormy Danielsadult film actress, is a central figure in the criminal case against donald trump which develops in New York. The most anticipated moment of the process happened on Tuesday, when the woman was presented as a witness. During her testimony, she described in detail her alleged sexual encounter with the tycoon that took place in 2006 at a hotel in Nevada.
trump77 years old, is accused in New York of falsification of 34 accounting documents hide the payment of US$ 130 thousand intended to buy the silence of stormy Danielin the final stretch of the 2016 presidential elections, when the Republican millionaire beat the Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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michael cohenthe former personal lawyer of trump, was the one who paid the US$130,000 out of his own pocket. The money was then returned to him. But according to the Public Ministry, this reimbursement was recorded as “attorney fees”. in the Trump Organization accounts. This leaves the tycoon facing charges for “forgery of accounting documents” and fraud in deeds.
Today trump It is Cohen They are fighting and the lawyer is also expected to testify at the trial.
trump He denied having had sexual relations with Danieland his defense tried unsuccessfully to get the judge to declare a mistrial.
Below is the testimony of Stormy Daniels:
Stormy Daniels45 years, arrived at New York Criminal Court dressed in a skirt, tank top and long black cardigan, as well as glasses of the same color and her disheveled hair tied with a clip, described the EFE agency.
According to a CNN report, Daniel He began his testimony by telling the jury about his childhood with an absent mother and how he came to the adult film industry. trump was present in the room. She hadn’t looked at the tycoon for most of the day.
He explained that he went into the adult cinema inadvertently when she misunderstood a friend who told her she was a dancer. According to Danielhe thought her dance was the same style as his, “which was ballet jazz and tap, I was wrong, she was an exotic dancer”.
At 21 years old, Daniel I was already a nude model and finally began appearing in adult films at age 23.
Questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger about how he met Trump, Stormy Daniels She said her first meeting with the mogul was in July 2006, at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, when she was hired as a presenter for the pornographic film production company Wicked Entertainment. Specifically, it was the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament. He was 59 and she was 27.
According to DanielAfter meeting at the event, they had dinner and had consensual sex in a hotel room. She said Trump told her she could appear on “The Apprentice,” his reality show.
At that time, trump He was married to his current wife, Melania, and their youngest son, Barron, was born a few months earlier.
Daniel He recalled that at the beginning he had a brief meeting with trump on the golf course where he called her intelligent for being, in addition to being a porn actress, a director and screenwriter.
He said Trump’s former bodyguard, Keith Schiller, organized a dinner between her and the millionaire. She initially declined due to other plans, but after speaking with her publicist, she agreed to meet with trump in his bedroom Hotel.
The inspector Hofinger asked him to describe in detail what suite Hotel to help establish his claim that she was actually there.
Daniel I say that The room was “three times bigger than my apartment”. and had black and white tile floors. He indicated that the furniture was “all heavy and beautiful.”
So he said this Trump appeared to her for the first time in the living room dressed in silk pajamas. It looked like Hugh Heffner, Daniels joked. She asked him to change, which he did.
Daniels said they talked for about two hours at the dining room table and said she never felt threatened.
“He asked about the commercial aspects. Are there unions? Do they receive royalties? How do people get paid? Do they have health insurance? And the tests? “Are you worried about sexually transmitted diseases?” he reminded her. Daniel, according to CNN. “I was very interested in many aspects of business, which I found very interesting,” he said.
Daniel He said they spoke briefly about Melania Trump.
Trump told him about his wife: “We don’t sleep in the same room.”
Daniels further said she reprimanded him for being rude, which led to her “beating” him with a magazine he was carrying, with his face on the cover. According to her, he seemed friendlier after the beating.
Trump also told her that she reminded him of his daughter, according to Daniels. “She said you remind me of my daughter because she’s smart, blonde and pretty and people underestimate her. “The way he put it really made a lot of sense,” he said.
After describing in detail the hotel room and the conversation he had with Trump, Daniel He said he walked across the room to go to the bathroom.
He remembered that when he left the bathroom he found trump lying on the bedroom bed in a suggestive manner and wearing underwear.
He specified that He was wearing boxers and a t-shirt. “I thought, Oh my God, what have I misunderstood to get here?” he told prosecutor Susan Hoffinger.
“At first I was scared, as if I was scared, I didn’t expect anyone to be there, especially without so many clothes.”, he declared. “He stood between me and the door. Not in a threatening way. He didn’t come toward me, he didn’t lunge at me. “Nothing like that,” he continued. Daniel.
Daniel She testified that she passed out at that moment, but clarified that she did not use drugs or drink. At that moment, Trump signaled to his lawyer Susan Necheles to object to the “fainting” testimony, CNN said.
“There was an imbalance of power, without a doubt. “He was bigger and blocked the way.”, he said. “I was not threatened verbally or physically,” Daniels insisted.
“I took off my clothes and shoes. “I took off my bra,” Daniels said.
“The next thing I knew I was in bed,” he responded when asked if he remembered taking off his clothes, and said no.
Daniel insisted that I couldn’t remember “how it got there”.but yes I had sex without a condom with Trump.
Daniel He noted that he later saw trump on several occasions and that, on one of them, he tried to have sex again, but nothing happened because he said he was menstruating, and that was the last time they saw each other in person.
When the defense of trump He questioned her, Daniels said he hates the Republican politician and wants him to go to jail if found guilty.
After these statements, Trump’s defense tried to force a mistrial due to the explicit nature of the statements in which he described the alleged sexual encounter with trump.
The judge Juan Merchan agreed with Trump’s legal team that Prosecutors should not have asked some of the questions they asked Daniels, but he did not consider that this merited invalidating the judgment.
According to the EFE agency, trump He listened to the statements looking straight ahead with a frown and after the lunch break, the tycoon sat back in his chair and closed his eyes for long periods of time.
Stormy Daniels He said that in 2015, after Trump launched his campaign for President of the United States, his then publicist Gina Rodríguez tried to sell his story. But there wasn’t much interest.
O witness He said that in 2016 he learned that the tycoon and his lawyer michael cohen They wanted to buy your silence.
She accepted $130,000 for her silence.
Trump’s defense suggested to the jury that this payment could be considered a extortion by the actress and her lawyer.
But Daniel He said in his statement that money wasn’t the reason he accepted the deal and that she wanted an agreement to be reached quickly because she was worried about a threat she received and because she did not want her partner at the time to know about the meeting she had with Trump.
Trump’s defense attempted to refute these arguments by pointing to inconsistencies in Trump’s testimony. Daniel in the last years.
Furthermore, defense lawyers They tried several times to portray the actress as a liar driven by greedusing excerpts from an autobiographical book in which Daniels tells his story with a different version of events.
Source: Elcomercio
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