The timeline of the Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels scandal: 18 years from a golf course meeting to one of the biggest trials in history
What started as a chance encounter at a charity golf tournament 18 years ago has turned into one of the biggest legal dramas in history. On Monday, Donald Trump will become the first former president to face a criminal trial over a $130,000 hush-money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels over their alleged affair.
The trial - set to last between six and eight weeks - will be full of bombshell testimony and drama that are the results of years of scandal.
Witnesses will testify about lurid allegations of hotel suite encounters, blockbuster TV interviews and backroom deals involving the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
The case revolves around the payment made to Daniels by Trump's then-fixer Michel Cohen ahead of the 2016 presidential election to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
She claims it occurred less than four months after Melania Trump gave birth to the couple's son , Barron.
Since then there have been legal twists and turns at every corner, while Trump has spent four years in the White House and is now in the middle of bid for another term.