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