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Donald Trump, accused of paying a porn actress to buy his silence

Donald Trump’s presidency was historic and turbulent, and his stage once out of the White House is already too: the New York billionaire has become the first former US president to be charged with a crime.

The grand jury convened by the Manhattan prosecutor’s office to decide on the presentation of charges against Trump voted in favor this Thursday.

The crimes of which the former president is accused are not yet known, but the investigation for which he has been charged has to do with the payment to buy the silence of a porn actress in 2016.

This is Stormy Daniels -her real name is Stephanie Clifford-, to whom Michael Cohen, a lawyer and grumpy handler in Trump’s shady affairs, paid $130,000 a few weeks before the November 2016 elections, in which the now former president won the White House.

Daniels claimed that he had a relationship with Trump for several months in 2006, when he was married for the third time to his current wife, Melania, and they just had a son.

Trump had just suffered a sex scandal with the publication of a video from the ‘Access Hollywood’ program, in which he was caught with an open microphone bragging about unsolicited touching of women. The goal was to avoid further doubt among the conservative electorate about the Republican candidate.

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to various crimes related to this payment, within an agreement with the authorities for which he was sentenced to several years in prison – he served three, mostly under house arrest – and for which he cooperated in the investigation against Trump.

The charges filed against Cohen at the time were for violation of the electoral financing law, forgery of financial documents and tax evasion, among others, and it is likely that those that Trump will face are along those lines.

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