Due to a hush agreement, Stormy Daniels has kept her story involving President Trump to herself since their acquaintance in 2006. That all changed on Sunday, March 25 when she appeared on a “60 Minutes” primetime interview with Anderson Cooper. What makes her story so important is that it gives people reason to believe that campaign violence laws were violated.

While telling her story, Daniels was blunt and straightforward, ready to get the record straight. She began with the day they met at a celebrity golf tournament, where he invited her to dinner the same night at his hotel suite. Continuing on, she discussed how the night escalated, as well as her conversations with Trump about his wife (First Lady Melania), who had just given birth to a son, and her possible appearance on “The Apprentice,” a TV show that Trump was involved with at the time.

A year after their first meeting, Daniels said that they met together again at his hotel in July 2007. She expected to discuss her potential appearance on “The Apprentice,” but Trump pushed the subject off and Daniels left once she found he had no further information. According to her interview, she has not seen him since.

In 2011, Daniels agreed to release her story to a sister publication of InTouch magazine, but it never ran due to the fact that Trump’s attorney threatened to sue. Two weeks after, Daniel’s herself was threatened.

“I was in a parking lot, going to a fitness class with my infant daughter,” said Daniels. “A guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.’ And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’”

Once Trump gained the Republican nomination for President, Daniels received many more offers in return for her story, all involving large sums of money. It was then that she accepted the hush agreement from Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, 11 days before the presidential election. She did so because she “was concerned for her family and their safety.” By accepting their offer, she also signed an agreement saying the affair never happened.

“They made it sound like I had no choice,” said Daniels. “Their exact sentence used was ‘They can make your life hell in many different ways.’”

The most controversial aspect of the story Daniels told was the agreement she decided to accept and where the $130,000 in hush money came from. There are two possible violations. According to USA Today, “Possible criminal liability arises if anyone was involved in knowingly and willfully falsifying or concealing a material fact,” meaning that if Trump allowed this money to be given to Daniels although through false terms, it became a violation. The next possibility is that Trump is required to disclose any assets that exceed $1,000.

Since her interview, Daniels has filed a lawsuit for defamation against President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. According to CNN, her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, “asserts that the payment was a violation of campaign finance law because it was designed to suppress speech ‘on a matter of public concern about a candidate for President.’”