Stormy Daniels is willing to testify if there is a Trump trial: ‘I have nothing to hide’

Stormy Daniels speaks at a ceremony to receive a city proclamation and key to the city in West Hollywood, California. A California court has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $44,100 in attorney fees to porn star Stormy Daniels. The money is intended to pay for her legal battle to cancel a hush money deal a decade ago to keep quiet about their sexual relationship. (AP Photo/Ringo HW Chiu, file)
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Stormy Daniels is willing to testify if there is a Trump trial: ‘I have nothing to hide’

Jonah Valdez

April 6, 2023

Stormy Daniels said this week she would be willing to testify if called

as the

criminal case against Donald Trump

goes to court

criminal trial against Donald Trump

.

to appear

OK

on Thursday episode of

the

Fox Nation show “Piers Morgan Uncensored”, the adult movie act

O

right

to eat

said the idea of ​​testing is “daunting” but added she would “look forward to it”.

‘Do you know what I mean? Because I have nothing to hide,’ she said

presenter Piers

morgan. ‘I’m the only one who told the truth. And you know, you can’t disgrace me any more.’

Former president

Donald

Trump faces 34 felony charges for falsifying business documents

cost

arising from the alleged cover-up of a silence

money paid

to Daniels, a former porn star,

in the days before the 2016 election. Trump appeared in a New York City court on Tuesday to plead not guilty to the charge.

Daniels

remains an important part of Manhattan

District Attorney’s Offices

case against Trump, the first former US president to face criminal charges. An investigation focused on a $130,000 payment made by his former attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels in 2016. The money was said to have been paid to prevent Daniels from going public during Trump’s campaign for president that she

‘D

had an affair with him.

Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, said so as prosecutors

don’t don’t

call her to the stand “It paints the picture that they know something about me that makes me

,

you know, unreliable or not reliable.

“I think when they call me in and put me on the stand, it legitimizes my story and who I am,” she said. And if they don’t, it almost feels like they’re hiding me and people will automatically assume I would

,

Oh, she must not be a good witness. She’s not credible.’

Leading up to the Manhattan Grand Jury’s decision to indict Trump, Daniels met with prosecutors in New York City.

And since the charges were filed, Daniels told Fox she’s been receiving more and more death threats that “seem more serious,” compared to the threats she received in 2018 when she

sued Trump for libel

. However,

Daniels

was not is not

the Trump beneficiary’s sole alleged plaintiffs turned up in the case.

Other alleged hush money payments included $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman

,

WHO

said he claimed to have

a story about a child Trump fathered out of wedlock

,

and a $150,000 payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Trump.

Manhattan Dist. attentive Alvin Bragg said Trump is under suspicion

quiet money

payments to Daniels and others

was not enough to accuse him

a crime. But his alleged attempts to cover up the plan, including

by falsifying company records to disguise classification

the payments

in business administration

as legal costs

were was a crime

said Bragg

. He called, called

the alleged plot of a years-long catch-and-kill plan

.

These are New York state crimes, whoever you are. We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal behavior, he said.

Trump has denied having sexual encounters with Daniels or McDougal.

In 2018, federal prosecutors charged former Trump attorney Cohen with campaign finance crimes in connection with the alleged silent payments.

Trump was not charged in that case,

but, however

Cohen

who pleaded guilty and spent three years in prison

had

concerned

him Trump

in the schedule.

That same year, Cohen had pleaded guilty and was separately convicted of lying to Congress.

Cohen also met with prosecutors ahead of last week’s indictment

and Cohen

is

So

expects to be a key witness if the case goes to court.

In the Fox

nation

interview, Daniels said that if Trump is found guilty of the charges against him, she would support the former president’s imprisonment. If the court decides not to incarcerate Trump, she fears it will “open the door for other people to think they can get away with it and worse.

Times staff writers Sarah D. Wire, Alexandra E. Petri, and Kevin Rector contributed to this report.

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