The porn star, the president and a 'hush money' payment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : " Daniels said she remained in touch with Trump over the next year in the hope he would come through on a promise to get her on his television show "The Celebrity Apprentice.
73% : Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to Donald Trump, has acknowledged arranging a $130,000 'hush money' payment to Stormy Daniels In an interview for the documentary, Daniels said they had a "good conversation" that "wasn't sexual at all" and Trump showed particular interest in the business side of the porn industry.
57% : Daniels was 27 at the time and Trump 60.
55% : In her 2018 tell-all book 'Full Disclosure,' Stormy Daniels recounts her encounter with Trump at a golf resort on the shores of Lake Tahoe Real estate tycoon and reality television star Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, an X-rated film actress, were both at a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in July 2006.
51% : Trump was playing in the tournament (he finished 62nd in the 80-player field) while Daniels was working as a "greeter" at the booth of porn studio "Wicked Pictures.
42% : " They posed together for a picture -- Trump in a red Trump National Golf Club hat and yellow polo shirt, Daniels in a black crop top.
40% : " - 'Hush money' payment - The Lake Tahoe story resurfaced in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign in which Trump was the Republican nominee and at a time when he was already facing flak for crude remarks about women made in an "Access Hollywood" tape.
37% : Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, says Trump invited her to his hotel penthouse suite where they had sex.
36% : These are the events leading up to the politically explosive case: - Lake Tahoe - In her 2018 tell-all book "Full Disclosure" and "Stormy," a new Peacock channel documentary, Daniels recounts her fateful encounter with Trump at the Nevada golf resort.
35% : Fast forward to April 2024 and Trump, who is seeking to recapture the White House in November, and Daniels are poised to meet again -- in a Manhattan courtroom for the first criminal trial of a former US president.
35% : The tabloid put her in touch with Cohen. Cohen, who has since turned against Trump, acknowledged arranging a $130,000 "hush money" payment to Daniels in exchange for her silence about the 2006 encounter.
33% : Trump says it never happened.
26% : " Trump denies any wrongdoing and claims he is the victim of a political "witch hunt" by the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, intended to derail his 2024 White House campaign.
22% : " Daniels said she was threatened soon afterwards by a man in a parking lot who warned her to "Leave Trump alone.
20% : Daniels and Trump -- under the pseudonyms Peggy Peterson and David Dennison -- entered into a nondisclosure agreement prepared by Cohen.
14% : In 2011, as Trump was contemplating a White House run against Democrat Barack Obama, "In Touch" magazine contacted Daniels about the Lake Tahoe encounter.
12% : Former president Donald Trump is to go on trial in New York for allegedly paying 'hush money' to porn star Stormy Daniels The National Enquirer, a tabloid owned by a Trump ally, discovered that Daniels was seeking bidders for her potentially damaging story about her tryst with Trump.

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