As news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in Manhattan continues to dominate the global news cycle, polls taken in the past week have shown conflicting results as to how the American public views his latest legal battle and its impact on the forthcoming 2024 presidential election.
The indictment, which remained under seal for much of the past week since news of the grand jury decision first broke on Thursday, deals with a payment made to former porn star Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In 2019, Trump’s longtime attorney turned adversary Michael Cohen testified to the House Oversight Committee that his former boss “asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and lie to his wife about it, which I did.”
Cohen presented the committee with “a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer” he sent to the former adult film star’s attorney “during the closing days of the presidential campaign” so she would “maintain her silence about her affair with Mr. Trump.” In 2021, the Federal Election Commission decided not to pursue the payment as a possible violation of federal campaign finance law.
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