March 20, 2018 |
Stormy Daniels Passed Polygraph Test About Trump Affair |
CYBERSPACEâIn 2011, Stormy Daniels was given a polygraph test to ascertain whether she was telling the truth about her claimed sexual relationship with Donald Trump. On Tuesday, nearly seven years after she took the âlie detectorâ exam, the results of that test went public, posted online by NBC News. The polygraph test was administered to Daniels in Las Vegas on May 19, 2011âmore than four years prior to Trumpâs announcement that he was a candidate for president of the United Statesâby examiner Ron Slay of the security firm Western Security Consultants. Slay found that Daniels was âtruthful about having unprotected vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump in July 2006.â Read the polygraph examinerâs report in its entirety at this link. The report focuses on three relevant questions Slay asked of Daniels in the exam. Those three questions were:⢠âAround July 2006, did you have vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump?"⢠âAround July 2006, did you have unprotected sex with Donald Trump?"⢠âDid Trump say he would get you on The Apprentice?"The exam used two separate formulas to determine whether Daniels, who answered âYesâ to all three of those questions, was telling the truth. The first method, an algorithm developed at Johns Hopkins University, according to Slayâs report, found that the probability that Daniels was lying in her answers was âless than 1 percent.âThe second formula was a more âtraditionalâ method of evaluating polygraph responses. Under that method each answer received a positive or negative score. A score of â+4â or higher is described as âadequateâ to determine that a polygraph subject is telling the truth.On the question of âvaginal intercourse with Donald Trump,â Daniels received a score of +9, or âtruthful,â according to the report. On the âunprotected sexâ question, Slay gave Daniels a score of +6, also âtruthful.On the final question, regarding whether Trump offered to âget (Daniels) on The Apprentice,â she received an âinconclusiveâ score of +1.Slay then concluded that Daniels was telling the truth about her sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. But as to whether he offered to put her on his reality show, The Apprentice, Slay made âno determination.â"Long before Mr. Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, Ms. (Daniels) passed a lie detector test confirming her relationship with Mr. Trump," her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told NBC News. "Where are his test results claiming otherwise? Where are Mr. Cohenâs test results claiming otherwise? When this is over, the American people will know the truth about the relationship and the cover-up." (Avenatti tweeted the above photo, and confirmed to NBC News that it is from a video of Daniels during a polygraph exam conducted in May 2011.)âMr. Cohenâ refers to Michael Cohen, Trumpâs self-described âfix-it guyâ who has admitted paying Daniels $130,000 in what Daniels and Avenatti describe as âhush money,â to keep her quiet about the sexual relationship with Trump.In 2011, Daniels gave an interview about the affair to InTouch Weekly. The polygraph test was connected to that interview. But the interview never ranâuntil January of this year.
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