Donald Trump has his hands full at the moment, and that will be the case for many months to come. The former president aims to retake office in the 2024 presidential election, and he will again face Joe Biden, who is running for re-election.
While Donald Trump’s decision to run for president once again was already big news, it’s nothing compared to the many lawsuits the former The Apprentice star is in the middle of. As of now, Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges stem from an alleged attempt to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to prevent her from discussing a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years prior, which Donald Trump is denying.
Last week, Stormy Daniels – whose real name is Stephanie Clifford – took the stand as a witness in the former president’s criminal hush money trial. There, she revealed quite intimate details about the former president. However, it didn’t only include details about him. It also concerned his wife and former first lady Melania Trump.
In 2018, the Trump Administration was left in shock as allegations against Donald Trump and the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels went public. The president said he was innocent, but that didn’t stop Melania Trump from making her mind up.
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While Donald Trump and Melania Trump handled their duties in Washington, the president’s past also caught up with him. And according to a new book, Melania wanted to take full advantage of it by humiliating her husband.
In January 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump had arranged a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels – whose real name is Stephanie Clifford – in October 2016 to prevent her from discussing a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006.
Of course, it was a big scandal. However, Trump consistently denied having an affair with Daniels. Meanwhile, in February 2018, Michael Cohen, a former private lawyer for Donald Trump, said he had indeed paid Daniels but used his own money and, therefore, Trump’s company or campaign money had nothing to do with it.
Cohen later contradicted both statements under oath. Moreover, he stated that Donald Trump directed him to make the payment.
Melania Trump has been through plenty in recent years. Her husband has been involved in many trials and still is. However, she hasn’t been at his side in the courtroom.
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When the allegations against Donald Trump and the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels went public in 2018, it’s safe to say that Melania wasn’t happy about them.
Stormy Daniels reveals intimated detail about Donald and Melania Trump during trial
In her book American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers writes that Melania refused to join her husband on a trip abroad and instead traveled to Mar-a-Lago without him.
“[FLOTUS press secretary Stephanie] Grisham, who traveled with her on that jaunt, said that the first lady had wanted to communicate her anger to the president,” Rogers writes, as reported by People Magazine.
Further, Grisham told Rogers that Melania “was pissed at Trump and wanted him to be a little humiliated that she took off.”
While Donald Trump continues his presidential campaign, he appeared in court last week. Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels took the stand, talking about her life, career, and, of course, encounters with Donald Trump.
It was at that point Stormy Daniels revealed a quite intimate detail about Donald Trump and Melania Trump’s life.
As Daniels recalled the night she and Donald Trump were said to have had together, she revealed that the presidential candidate told her,” We don’t sleep in the same room,” meaning Donald and Melania.
