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The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal involves an alleged one-night sexual encounter between Donald Trump and pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, an alleged conspiracy to cover up the story in the month prior to the 2016 presidential election, and allegations that Trump falsified business records as part of the conspiracy. The story broke in 2018, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to Daniels for her silence during Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. After the story broke, Cohen voluntarily cooperated with federal investigators and admitted the payment to Daniels was an illegal contribution to Trump's campaign intended to influence the election. Cohen pled guilty to this and other crimes and in December 2018 was sentenced to 3 years in prison. The scandal grew during 2018, as the public learned that Trump was alleged to have reimbursed Cohen via false business records designed to hide their true nature. The New York District Attorney's office impaneled a grand jury to investigate Trump's involvement, and the grand jury voted to indict Trump on March 30, 2023. Trump has been charged with falsifying his business records in order to hide any one of three other crimes: Cohen's illegal campaign contribution, tax law violations, and/or Trump's own participation in the alleged conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election through unlawful means. Trump is being prosecuted in New York for these alleged crimes, in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Since the Wall Street Journal's initial report, Daniels and Trump have been outspoken about the scandal and have contested related claims in civil litigation. Alleged 2006 encounter In July 2006, Stormy Daniels, an American pornographic film actress, met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada. At the time, Trump was married to Melania Trump and was the host of the reality TV series The Apprentice. Daniels says, most recently under oath, that after briefly meeting Trump in 2006 she was invited to dinner and was to meet him at his hotel room. Daniels testified that Trump asked her many questions about her life, and at some point Daniels said she'd grown up poor. Trump also allegedly asked wide-ranging questions about the business model of pornographic video production, including but not limited to details about condom use and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Daniels also said Trump talked about making Daniels a guest on The Apprentice. Daniels testified that she thought they would be going to a restaurant, and eventually used the restroom in Trump's hotel room, but upon re-emerging was surprised to find Trump stripped to his underwear sitting on the bed. Daniels testified she said "I think we should go" and moved toward the door but Trump allegedly stood in her way saying in part, "This is the only way you're getting out of the trailer park." Daniels could not remember how she ended up on the bed, but testified that they had sex in the missionary position and Trump chose not to use a condom. Daniels insisted she was neither forced nor under the influence, but also said it wasn't something she wanted and that she "blacked out". Trump denies the alleged sexual encounter with Daniels happened. Daniels considered going public in 2011 In 2011, as Trump began exploring a potential presidential bid, Daniels considered selling the story to the celebrity magazine Life & Style for US$15,000. As part of the negotiation, Daniels was interviewed and the magazine asked the Trump Organization for comment. In response, Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen threatened litigation and the magazine decided not to publish Daniels' story. Daniels also talked about the alleged affair with the gossip magazine In Touch Weekly, whom Cohen also threatened to sue if the story were published. In October 2011, Daniels' agent Gina Rodriguez leaked the story to Nik Richie, author of the gossip blog The Dirty. Daniels complained the blog changed facts of her story and the post was taken down the following day. Cohen testified in May 2024 that he undertook the effort to get the story removed after Trump took him up on his advice to do so. Lead up to hush-money payment to Daniels Alleged catch-and-kill plan to help Trump's campaign In August 2015, about one month after Trump announced his 2016 campaign, a meeting allegedly took place between Trump, Cohen, and David Pecker, owner of American Media, Inc (AMI), which among other periodicals published the National Enquirer. In April 2024, Pecker testified under oath describing an alleged agreement at that meeting saying, What I would do is I would run or publish positive stories about Mr. Trump and I would publish negative stories about his opponents...I said I would be your eyes and ears because I know the Trump Organization has a very small staff. And then I said that anything I hear in the marketplace, if I hear anything negative about yourself, or if I hear anything about women selling stories, I would notify Michael Cohen... and then he would be able have them kill in another magazine or have them not be published or somebody would have to purchase them." Pecker testified that after the meeting he immediately briefed National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard about the meeting's substance, i.e., that either Pecker or Howard were to alert Cohen if they learned of potential stories about Trump and that they were "going to try to help the campaign, and to do that, I want to keep this as quiet as possible." Over the next several months Pecker, through AMI, purchased two such stories, one from Dino Sajudin and the other from Playboy model Karen McDougal. AMI buys Dino Sajudin's story In October, according to Pecker's 2024 testimony, Howard called Pecker to say Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin was trying to sell a different story about Trump, one involving an illegitimate child allegedly fathered by Trump. Pecker testified that he immediately informed Cohen per the August 2015 agreement. Pecker testified he had AMI investigate the story and eventually concluded it was not true, but Pecker testified he instructed AMI to purchase the story anyway so it would not be published elsewhere before the 2016 presidential election. On November 15, AMI and Sajudin allegedly signed a "Source Agreement". On December 17, AMI and Sajudin allegedly signed an "Amendment" to the Source Agrement. In his 2024 testimony, Pecker said the amendment to the source agreement was made at Cohen's request for purposes of further reducing the chance the story might leak before the election. According to the AP, Cohen admitted that "as a Trump spokesman" he had "discussed" the Sajudin story with AMI while AMI was "working on it". The following day AMI had the National Inquirer pay Sajudin the agreed-upon $30,000. According to Pecker's 2024 testimony Cohen told Pecker "The Boss will be very pleased" and that Pecker understood "The Boss".... Discover the David Daniels Virginia Price popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Daniels Virginia Price books.