After all of Donald Trump’s well-documented malfeasance over the decades – his fake university and failed casino, his Covid denialism, his consorting with dictators, his blatant lies about election fraud, his incitement of a deadly riot – it has taken a hush money payment to a porn actress to create the most imminent threat that he’ll face criminal charges “The Stormy Daniels incident is the origin story for Trump’s efforts to manipulate elections and to get away with it,” Joyce Vance, the University of Alabama law professor and former U.S.