Former U.S President Donald Trump Paid Hush Money to Actress

Ahsan Elahi
Former U.S President Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels

Former U.S President Donald Trump turned himself in at the Manhattan Criminal courthouse on 4th April 2023. He was charged with in total 34 felonies including paying Hush money to a Stormy Daniels.

 Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump Affair

Former U.S. President Donald trump who is always in the news for most controversial things incite a lot of drama during his presidential elections campaign in 2016 and now it has come to surface that he paid USD 130,000 film actress to keep silent about their affair in 2006 (a year before his marriage with Melania Trump) and made false business records to hide the payment. According to Stephanie Clifford (Screen name Stormy Daniels) she was introduce to Trump in 2006 at celebrity golf tournament and Trump asked her out for a dinner. Donald trump denies allegations of any relation with her and stated that payment was only to make her stop about those false claims he also referred to the incident as con job.

Trump’s Indictment

According to statement of facts of the case, the main charge on Donald J. Trump is that he repeatedly falsified New York Business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 Presidential Elections of U.S. From August 2015 to Dec 2017 Trump with help of his devised a scheme to influence the 2016 elections by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and get benefit during electoral process. The scheme was in violation of election laws of United States and Trump’s lawyer pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution and served time in prison. Further, false entries made in New York business records to effectuate this payment, separate and apart from the New York business records used to conceal the payment. Later, Trump reimbursed that payment to his lawyer.

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What will happen next?

Trump pleaded not guilty during the arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon. His attorney Joe Tacopina said Sunday that the former president will eventually move to have the charges dismissed. The Manhattan district attorney, Mr. Alvin L. Bragg stated that Trump violated both state and federal election laws and cited a New York state election law that makes it a offense to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means, but did not explain why that law would apply to a presidential election. He also described a federal cap on campaign contributions without indicating why he had the authority to invoke a crime he could not himself charge.  According to experts, it can be ambiguous whether paying off a mistress was a campaign expenditure or a personal one.