By now, the basics of Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels scandal are probably familiar. There is, however, a new twist in the story, suggesting that the ordeal has an important new chapter.
As regular readers probably recall, shortly before Election Day 2016, Trump paid the adult-film actress $130,000 as part of an agreement in which Daniels would keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter she had with the future president. (Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.) The point, of course, was to prevent the public from learning about the alleged encounter, which Daniels claims happened shortly after Trump’s third wife gave birth to his youngest child.
Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, exposed the fact that Trump laundered the payments through his business to cover them up, ultimately leading to criminal charges against the former president. Prosecutors indicted the Republican on 34 felony counts, a jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts. The GOP nominee for the nation’s highest office is currently awaiting sentencing.
