New York District Attorney Convenes Grand Jury To Investigate Trump’s Hush Money Payments To Stormy Daniels
Surprise? Guess we’re not quite done with the Trump/Stormy Daniels hush money story after all. Now, the beleaguered orange pig could face criminal charges in New York for paying off his former mistress. Of course, we’ve been hearing about all kinds of criminal charges against Trump for years, so we’ll see if anyone has the balls to finally fucking charge him. Via The Guardian:
Prosecutors are to present a grand jury with evidence about hush money payments made by Donald Trump, the former US president, to adult film actor and producer Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign, it was reported on Monday.
The surprise move by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney in New York, revives a long-running investigation that appeared to be drifting and raises the threat of criminal charges, adding to Trump’s already daunting legal troubles.
Daniels, who was born Stephanie Clifford but professes to prefer her stage name, claims to have had sex with Trump in Nevada in 2006 when he was already married to Melania Trump. He denied the allegation but in 2016 his longtime fixer Michael Cohen made a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels, which Trump reimbursed.
The Times reported on Monday that witness David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, a tabloid that helped broker the deal with Daniels, was seen entering a building in Lower Manhattan where the grand jury has been empaneled.
