Former President Donald Trump was reportedly afraid of his wife, Melania, finding out about his affair with former porn star Stormy Daniels, which he publicly denied, which is one of the reasons he ordered the payment to keep her quiet. The other reason is allegedly related to the presidential election that was coming up on the calendar.
The $130,000 “hush” payment that Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen gave to Stormy Daniels under the direction of his boss, is now the center of the indictment of Donald Trump announced on Thursday, March 30, by a Manhattan grand jury.
When the news of the alleged affair and the subsequent $130,000 hush payment broke out in 2018, Melania was furious and wanted to leave Trump, which is what Trump was afraid of when he arranged the payment with his lawyer.
A source said that Trump was upset that his wife would find out about his tryst with a porn star.
Trump maintains that he did nothing wrong and strongly denies ever having an affair with Daniels.
He denies it but was afraid his wife would find out about it.
Daniels said the affair happened in 2006 in a hotel room at a Lake Tahoe casino following a charity golf tournament that they both attended.
In 2018, when news of the relationship broke, Melania was very angry and she reportedly moved out of the White House and stayed in a hotel for days. She then left Washington DC for Palm Beach, Florida. The relationship between the couple was severely undermined, with the former first lady avoiding her husband.
Melania had given birth to their son, Barron, just four months before the affair allegedly occurred.
A source told the media in 2018 that Melania would spend a lot of time away from the White House and would rarely enter the West Wing office, quite unlike other first ladies who were more in the public eye.
People also started noticing that, whenever the couple was out in public at events, Melania appeared distant, almost robotic, and did not want to get close to her husband. The two barely held hands in public during Trump’s tenure as president.
Daniels maliciously described her sexual encounter with Trump as the worst 90 seconds in her life. She and Trump are always throwing insults at each other and calling each other belittling names. Trump’s unkind nickname for Daniels is “horse face.”