CNNEE Anchor Unleashes TDS In Puff Piece on Stormy Daniels

Kathleen Krumhansl | March 23, 2023
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JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: We've talked to you about the New York case. The New York case revolves around a woman that Donald Trump met in 2006, something that he denies, but who continues to occupy headlines and could lead, if this process proceeds, to Trump being accused of a possible crime. Let's see who´s Stormy Daniels, the woman at the center of the controversy.

Stephany Clifford was born in Louisiana; In her autobiography published in 2018, Clifford, who rose to fame under the stage name of Stormy Daniels, revealed that she had a difficult childhood amid poverty and constant sexual abuse. As a teenager she moved to California to dabble in adult entertainment where she has worked as an exotic dancer and actress, director and producer of pornographic films. She says that in 2006 she met Donald Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. According to her, Trump's bodyguard took her to his room where she was to dine with him, but she describes an intimate relationship, something Trump denies, and provided details about Trump's anatomy. She says that Trump promised to include her in his television program The Apprentice and that is why she agreed to have relations with him until the then businessman confirmed that she could not participate. In 2018, in an interview with CBS, Daniels revealed that in 2011, she negotiated with The Enquirer magazine to reveal her relationship with Trump in exchange for $ 15,000, but that the agreement fell apart because Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump's lawyer, threatened to sue the publication. In 2016, in the middle of the presidential campaign, Cohen negotiated a deal that included paying $130,000 to ensure her silence. The lawyer made the payment from his own funds and then received a refund that, according to Donald Trump, was from his money and not from the presidential campaign. With the 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Stormy Daniels broke the deal.

Stormy Daniels sued Trump seeking to overturn the hush agreement, but the lawsuit was dismissed and the judge ordered Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal costs incurred by Trump. But the story was already told.