What is the Stormy Daniels - Donald Trump Case?
I’m going to cover two stories in this one post. First, I will explain the Stormy Daniel’s case, which may cause the legal downfall of former president Donald Trump. Then I will transition to a video podcast, the “Trials of Donald Trump” post.
What is the Stormy Daniels – Donald Trump Case?
I’ll go ahead and outline the case chronologically and cite sources as I move forward.
Sleazy Weekend in Tahoe
July 2006.
Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, was a rising porn star in 2006 when she attended a celebrity Golf Tournament in Lake Tahoe, California. Donald Trump was 60 years old, newly married, with a new baby, and enjoying the success of his reality television show. According to a story in GQ called “When Trump Met Stormy Daniels: The Strange Story of Four Wild Days in Tahoe,” Trump was accused of kissing several other women without their consent and beginning a second affair with Karen McDougal, a Playboy model.
Trump has denied all these charges.
Michael Cohen and the $130,000 Stormy Payoff
According to sources, Trump has been allowed to testify before the Grand Jury. When this happens, an indictment sometimes follows.
Trump is meeting with his legal team in New York. Michael Cohen has met with Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District attorney office, dozens of times in the last couple of weeks.
And it has been confirmed that Cohen is testifying before the Grand Jury on Monday, March 13.
The Trials of Donald Trump - Is There Stormy Weather Ahead?
This is the text from my podcast that I posted on Saturday, March 11, 2023
Ex-President twice impeached; Donald Trump is under investigation for various alleged crimes. There are criminal investigations and Civil cases.
I’m Gloria Moraga; this is a Political Woman. Please share and subscribe; I’m to shed light on the Trials of Donald Trump. Is there Stormy Weather ahead?
I count about 23 Lawsuits and or Criminal investigations against Trump.
About half of these are from his time as President.
When you look at the lawsuits. Woof! We can put Trump’s legal problems into four categories.
Greed
Money
Power
Sex
For brevity’s sake, let’s combine Greed and Money
According to Forbes, 14 pending cases relating to the Trump business dealings.
Just to name one, there is the case of alleged REAL ESTATE FRAUD – INVOLVING his COMPANY.
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PrIn a 200-page lawsuit in September , prosecutors in New York alleged alleged in a 200-page lawsuit in September that Trump (QUOTE) engaged in a decade-long pattern of widely misrepresenting the worth of his properties in financial documents sent to banks, insurers, and tax authorities.
So he is being investigated for alleged Tax Fraud.
I’ll link to the Forbes Article but here ,ashort list.
I’ll also link to a website called, Just SECURITY.ORG.
Security, on that site t,here is a litigation tracker. It tracks cases pending against Donald Trump.
There are other examples we can file under Greed and Money.
There is the case of Mary Trump verse the Trump Corporation/Family. Do you listen to Mary Trump’s Podcast? Her Nerd Avengers Podcast.
These categories overlap as well.
Power
I count—seven lawsuits related to Trump’s involvement in the January 6, Insurrection.
ThThe District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, is vestigating election interference. That’s a big one. It’s with the Grand Jury Now.
I jued 11 thousand more votes
Other Jan. 6 lawsuits include:
NAACP Legal Defense Fund alleges violations of the Voting Rights Act.
Capitol police officers are suing Trump. DC Police are suing. As arme congress members,
And, of course, there is Federal Special prosecutor Jack Smith.
He is leading the Federal Investigation related to Inciting the Insurrection.
And don’t forget the stolen Classified Documents found at Mara largo.
Sex
RAPE/DEFAMATION CASE INVOLVING WRITER E. JEAN CAROLL
- Jean Carroll is suing Trump for defamation. The trial is slated to start on April 10.
- A judge ruled Friday that Carroll could refer to the Access Hollywood tape during the trial.
- Carroll sued Trump when he loudly denied her claim that he raped her in the mid-1990s.
Stormy Daniels – PORN STAR HUSH MONEY CASE –
According to multiple reports, the Manhattan district attorney’s office informed former President Donald Trump’s team that he could face criminal charges for his role in the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
Campaign finance Violation. Which could be a felony.
Flashback to 2016.
Prior before Trump winning the presidential election, we learned that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent to silence women, including two Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford, aka “Stormy Daniels,”
Both of these women had alleged affairs or sexual encounters with Trump.
In October 2016 — weeks before the presidential election, as Trump was being publicly besieged by a series of sexual harassment or assault accusations from many different women — adult film actress Stormy Daniels was preparing to come forward with her own story about a consensual sexual encounter she’d had with Trump in 2006.
But, her representatives let it be knownTrumpshe’d also be willing to accept payment for her silence.
Earlier in the campaign, Michael Cohen, Trump’sTrumpstory account had worked with American Media Inc. — the parent company of the National Enquirer — to “catch and kill” unflattering stories about Trump, in which AMI would pay accusers for the exclusive rights to their storyaccount., and then not publish those stories. AMI executives were involved in the discussions about paying Daniels too, but they ultimately balked — so Cohen had to take care of it himself.
Cohen set up a shell company, Essential Consultants, and sent $130,000 to Daniels’s lawyer on October 27. Later, after Trump won the election, he paid Cohen back in installments in 2017.
The problem, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York later alleged, was that this violated campaign finance law. They argued that since this money was spent to help Trump win the election, it should have been disclosed as campaign spending and subject to legal limits on donationsbrokedonations brokebroke the news the news
The key is that when Trump paid Cohen back for the hush money, he classified it as legal fees. Prosecutors want to argue that that amounted to illegal falsification of business records and a violation of New York state election law, which makes it a felony.
Flash to 2018, when the Wall Street Journal broke the Stormy Daniels hush money story.
Cohen eventually pleaded guilty in August 2018 to violating federal campaign finance laws with those payments to Stormy and others.
In legal documents, Trump is identified as “Individual-1.”
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison, but served less than that because of COVID. He pled guilty to tax evasion, lying to Congress in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election andand donations.story accountbeforedonations broke, his role in funneling payments to silence two women who alleged that they had had affairs with Trump.
Today is Saturday, March 11.
According to sources, Trump is meeting with his legal team in New York. Michael Cohen has met with Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District attorney office, dozens of times in the last couple of weeks.
And it has been confirmed that Cohen is testifying before the Grand Jury on Monday, March 13.
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