Donald Trump has for years faced criminal investigations on multiple fronts, ranging from alleged presidential election interference to purported financial crimes, and recent scrutiny over his storage of government secrets.
In the end, though, what got a grand jury to vote to indict him Thursday was not election interference, spurious bookkeeping, unsecured federal documents, or even that his supporters staged the deadly January 6 Capitol attack after he was voted out of office and told them to “fight like hell”. It was the porn star and director known to fans as Stormy Daniels.