Champagne on the “tiny”
Stormy Daniels celebrates impeachment against Trump
3/31/2023, 4:58 p.m
In the year of the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump donated $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels. After the payment became known, the 44-year-old does not hide, writes memoirs, goes on talk shows. “I’m not a victim,” she says.
A porn star goes down in the history books. Donald Trump is the first ex-US President to face indictment – and this shame stems from a sex adventure he is said to have had with Stormy Daniels more than a decade and a half ago. Specifically, the proceedings are about hush money that the former porn actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, received shortly before the 2016 election.
It is ironic that among the various legal investigations against Trump, it is not those into the storming of the Capitol, the secret documents hoarded by him, possible attempts at election rigging or the business practices of his family holding company that are now the first indictment brings in – but the 130,000 dollars that once went to Stormy Daniels, which seems almost trivial.
The judiciary has been investigating the circumstances of this hush money payment for years. Although not illegal per se, it is said to have involved the forgery of business documents and could have been covert campaign financing. According to Stormy Daniels, the indictment against Trump was poured with champagne. For the 44-year-old, dealing with Trump is a business: there is now a wave of demand for her merchandise, she wrote.
Abused as a child
Stormy Daniels has emerged as a public opponent of Trump in recent years. In doing so, the former stripper and porn actress demonstrates a sharp tongue that is hardly inferior to Trump. One of her nicknames for the ex-president is “tiny” – an unmistakable reference to the intimate insights she allegedly gained into Trump’s anatomy.
Stormy Daniels has one daughter and has been married to porn actor Barrett Blade for the fourth time since last year. She was born in Baton Rouge, southern Louisiana, and was raised by her mother after her parents divorced. In her 2018 memoir, she says she was neglected by her family and sexually abused by an older man when she was nine years old.
To make ends meet later, she first performed as a stripper and then switched to the porn industry. Not only as an actress, but also as a director and screenwriter, she became a well-known figure in the porn scene and won a number of awards.
In her memoirs, she also describes her meeting with Trump in great detail. According to his own account, Stormy Daniels met Trump, who is 33 years his senior, in the summer of 2006 during a golf tournament at a luxury resort on Lake Tahoe on the border between the states of California and Nevada. At the time, Trump had just had a son, Barron, with his third wife, Melania.
According to her description, he invited Stormy Daniels to his suite, where he received her in her pajamas. Then it was “perhaps the least impressive sex I’ve ever had,” she describes the encounter. However, Trump denies having had sex with her.
“I’m not a victim”
Stormy Daniels makes no secret of the fact that she hoped Trump would give her career a boost. “I’m not a victim,” she said in a television interview. Trump promised her an appearance on his reality show “The Apprentice”, which never came about.
Before the 2016 presidential election, she finally received $130,000 from Trump’s attorney at the time, Michael Cohen, so she wouldn’t spill the alleged sex escapade. Stormy Daniels later reported that she was forced to stand still under massive pressure, including threats of violence.
The non-disclosure agreement came to light in 2018 when Trump was officiating in the White House. Since then, Stormy Daniels has had a tough legal and verbal argument with Trump. She had to endure a lot of malice from Trump and his supporters. However, as a result of the dispute, she has become socially acceptable. For example, she appeared in a skit on the popular comedy show Saturday Night Live. She played herself.