“The worst 90 seconds of my life”: at the heart of the Trump-Daniels trial, a shocking testimony

American billionaire Donald Trump, 77, appears this Monday in court. New York in the Stormy Daniels affair, and in particular the disguised payments intended for buy the silence of the former porn star.

This Monday, April 15, the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump opens. The former president of the United States is expected to appear before the court. from 1:30 p.m., à Manhattan in a case of payments intended for buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels. Facts that took place in 2016, & a few days before the presidential election. The trial is expected to last between 6 and 8 weeks. A first for a former president.

What impact on Donald Trump's campaign ?

While the 77-year-old billionaire is seeking a second term à the White House, he is charged with for 34 falsifications of accounting documents for his company, the Trump Organization. 130,000 dollars would have been disguised by his team in legal and legal expenses to be able to pay Stormy Daniels and buy his silence after a potential affair. In fact, can this umpteenth affair surrounding Donald Trump really disturb him? a few months before the presidential election ? 

In a survey published by Ipsos, 57% of Americans said that a "guilty" would have no impact on their chances of voting for him. This could even help strengthen their desire to vote for Donald Trump. In reality, until then, Trump's legal woes have continued to strengthen his popularity. among his sympathizers, denouncing a "witch hunt" to make him fall. Voilaà why, this trial is not necessarily intended to throw Donald Trump who risks a maximum sentence of 4 years in prison. His age and his lack of prior criminal conviction may, on the other hand, help him to be convicted. avoid imprisonment. 

"I facedé opposite &agrav; facing evil in the most intimate of ways

In an interview grantedé &agrav; Michael Cohen in 2021, Donald Trump's ex-lawyer, Stormy Daniels spoke bluntly about her sexual relationship with the billionaire. Crude details, shocking sentences, she does not spare the former head of state. The facts date back à 2006 when Donald Trump was already in office. husband with his current wife, Melania Trump. Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, porn star, then have a consensual sexual relationship. But the latter doesn't have good memories of it, she even talks about the "worst 90 seconds of her life". "When I came out of the bathroom and Trump was there, in his underwear, so confident, I remember thinking" …but how did I find myself in there ? I felt misled, duped" she explains. "I felt like I was nine years old again" she continues.

If she had not felt "physically threatened", she had nonetheless, that day, imagined& oacute; a scenario to escape from this situation by running away, believing that she “certainly could have outrun him”. Also in 2021, she had also indicated having forgotten what had happened? up to 'à what the film "Scandal" with Charlize Theron does not make him realize the situation. As she began filming a show on the theme of ghost hunting, she finally declared: " I faced opposite &agrav; facing evil in the most intimate of ways, monsters no longer scare me present".