Stormy Daniels

Ms Daniels and Mr Cohen are key players in the scheme for which Mr Trump is indicted.

[indictment](/topic/indictment) speak for itself,” Mr Cohen said. No one is above the law. “For the first time in our Country’s history, a President (current or former) of the United States has been indicted.

The case against Donald Trump centres on a $130000 (£105000) payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the final days of the 2016 presidential ...

He continued to deny the affair, however. [Live updates - Prosecutors launch first ever criminal case against former president](https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-latest-prosecutors-vote-to-indict-donald-trump-as-part-of-hush-money-investigation-12840161) [case against him](https://news.sky.com/story/grand-jury-votes-to-indict-donald-trump-over-alleged-payments-to-adult-film-actress-us-media-12839058) centres on a $130,000 (£105,000) payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

After 50 years of tangling with the legal system, Donald Trump has been indicted. Why is this case leading to his first criminal charges?

The Justice Department has a long-standing practice of not charging a sitting President with a crime. Bragg has moved forward on a separate Trump-related case, but has not directly charged Trump with a crime in that proceeding. Bragg beat out seven candidates in the Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney in 2021, and then easily won in the general election. Previously, he was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and the deputy chief in the state attorney general’s office. Bragg is the first Black man to be elected as Manhattan district attorney in the 220-year history of the office. While in the state attorney general’s office, Bragg was part of lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump is trying to use his status as a 2024 presidential candidate to say that Bragg is targeting him for political reasons. Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen says that Trump reimbursed him for the hush money payment to Daniels in order to stop her from going public before the election with her account of an alleged affair with Trump. Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea for campaign finance violations in relation to the hush money payment has given prosecutors a clear trail of evidence to follow. It has to do with the timing of the work of various grand juries,” says Timothy Naftali, a historian at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, recently told TIME. Cohen has also said that Trump knew about the details of the payment and why it was being made. Trump’s response did not mention his public and well-documented efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Stephanie Clifford – Stormy Daniels's real name – first met Trump in 2006 and claims they had a sexual relationship.

also don’t want to spill my champagne,” she tweeted on Thursday, while also plugging her #TeamStormy merchandise, after Trump was indicted in New York. On CBS’s 60 Minutes, she said she wanted to set the record straight: “I’m not a victim,” she stated flatly. Daniels says she first crossed paths with the real-estate-mogul-turned-politician in the summer of 2006 during a charity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, on the border between California and Nevada. Thank you to everyone for your support and love! She claims they went on to have what “may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had”. Despite everything, she was a good student and passionate about horses.