Because he was concerned that his wife, Melania, would find out about his secret affair with a former porn star, former President Donald Trump allegedly ordered a payment to keep Stormy Daniels quiet. Another factor that involved the hush money payment was the presidential election.

When the affair was made public in 2018, Melania was enraged and wanted to leave Trump, which is precisely what Trump feared when he arranged the $130,000 hush payment with his lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Trump, according to a source, was terrified that his wife would find out about his relationship with a porn actress.

Trump, 76, says he will be arrested after the New York grand jury’s hearings into his payments to Daniels are over.

Trump denies having a relationship with Daniels and maintains that he did nothing improper.

He disputes it, but was concerned that his wife would find out about it.

In 2006, Daniels claimed the meeting took place in a hotel room at a Lake Tahoe casino following a charity golf tournament.

After learning of the affair in 2018, Melania reportedly became so incensed that she left the White House and spent several days in a hotel. She then traveled from Washington, DC to Palm Beach, Florida. The couple’s relationship became very strained.

The liaison between Trump and Daniels happened four months after Melania gave birth to their son Barron.

A source told the media in 2018 that Melania would spend a lot of time away from the White House and would only occasionally visit Trump’s West Wing office.

When the couple was spotted out together at events, people started to notice that Melania always presented a distant, almost robotic stance, and resisted getting close to the former president. The two were rarely seen in be intimate in public, avoiding holding hands.

Trump now refers to Daniels as “horse face,” and she frequently criticizes and disparages him. Daniels once called her sexual encounter with him “the worst 90 seconds of my life.”