While the former US President donald trump was going through one of the worst days of your lifethe porn star Stormy Daniels lived one of the best.
On Tuesday, on the adult site pornhubusers searched for more than 650,000 times videos of Daniels. The figure is impressive considering that on March 29 the number was 34,400.
At 1:00 PM ET, as the world waited for the Trump motorcade to arrive at Manhattan Criminal Court, searches on Pornhub for “Stormy” were high. six times its normal level. Generally, that’s not the busiest time for site traffic.
Perhaps due to the magnitude of the event, people keep in mind the words “jail” and “prison”. The platform reported that both are very popular in searches This week.
Trump was indicted this Tuesday for more than 30 charges in relation to the payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 electoral campaign. In this way, the former president of the United States becomes the first former US president to receive a criminal charge.
Dressed in a dark blue suit and red tie, the 76-year-old magnate had to appear before the State Supreme Court judge, John Merchan, who oversaw the Trump Organization tax fraud trial last year. Before the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office, where the 34 felony charges against him were read, the former head of state pleaded not guilty.
The charges are from falsification of business records in the first degree in connection with a money scheme in the Daniels case. All of them are considered “violations of article 175.10 of the Penal Code” and are defined as “attempt to defraud and commit another crime” and to hide it.
Eleven of them are related to invoices issued by Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohenwho has pleaded guilty and is expected to be one of the main witnesses in the case.
Trump was found guilty of “orchestrating” a series of hush-up payments to three people ahead of the 2016 presidential election. A Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have information about an alleged illegitimate child was given $30,000 to keep quiet, a A woman who claims to have been his lover charged $150,000 to keep quiet and Daniels another $130,000 for hiding an alleged extramarital affair, according to the prosecutor. Alvin Bragg in a press release.
“Under New York State law, it is a felony to falsify business records with the intent to defraud and conceal another crime. That is exactly what this case is about: 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. These are felonies in the state of New York (…) We will not normalize serious criminal conduct”Bragg said after the hearing. And he affirmed that “everyone is equal before the law”.
The judge released Trump on bail without pre-trial restrictions.
Following the reading of the charges, Trump left the court at 3:25 p.m. local time, after spending almost two hours in the place.
(With information from AFP)
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