The timelime was getting muddy for me, so I decided to lay it out here.
January 2005
Trump marries Slovenian-born model Melania Knauss in West Palm Beach, FL, in a lavish $1 million reception at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
March 2006
Melania Trump gives birth to son Barron in NYC on March 20. “I continue to stay young, right?” Trump boasts 20 minutes after the delivery. “I produce children, I stay young.”
July 2006
Trump meets adult film star Stormy Dniels at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, NV. Later that night, after dinner in his suite, Trump and Daniels have sex, she told In Touch, adding that he didn’t seem worried about his wife finding out: “It did occur to me, ‘That’s a really stupid move on your part.’”
May 2011
Daniels opens up to In Touch five years after her relationship with Trump began. “Now that I have a baby that’s the same age that his was at the time [of our affair], I’m like, ‘Wow, what a dick,’” she told In Touch. “I feel bad.” In Touch doesn’t run the story.
September 2016
Daniels shops the story to other media outlets.
October 27, 2016
Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen pays Stormy $130,000 around the time news outlets begin trying to interview her.
October 22, 2016
In a press conference with her attorney, Daniels and former Wicked Pictures colleague Jessica Drake alleges the two friends went to Trump’s suite in Lake Tahoe during the 2006 golf tournament — where he greeted them in PJs, kissed Jessica without her consent and offered her $10,000 to come see him again.
November 8, 2016
With the help of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and due to a lackluster campaign by Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is elected to the office of President of the United States.
January 12, 2018
Wall Street Journal break sthe story about Michael Cohen hush money paid to Daniels.
January 7, 2018
In Touch publishes the original 2011 interview.
January 22, 2018
Complaint filed against Cohen asseets that Cohen’s payment violates federal election laws.
January 30, 2018
Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, releases a signed letter from Daniels in which she denies having a sexual affair or taking “hush money” from Trump: “My involvement with Donald Trump was limited to a few public appearances and nothing more.” Daniels denies any knowledge of the letter on Jimmy Kimmel.
Febrauary 13, 2018
Cohen aknowldegs paying Daniels, but states it had nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
February 27, 2018
Cohen gets a tempoarary retsrianing order against Daniels to silnce her.
March 6, 2018
Daniels files a lawsuit saying that the inital agreement is invalid becuase Trump never signed it.
March 7th, 2018
White House denies Daniels affiare ever took place.
March 9, 2018
Daniles attonery disputes the White Houses’ claim, and says that he has evidence that will show the White Houses’ claim to be “pattently false.”
The CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” taped an interview with Daniels but has been slow rolling the airiing of it.