According to Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump shouldn’t go to jail for the $130,000 in hush money payments he made to her during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The adult film celebrity talked extensively on the former president’s arrest and court arraignment after being charged with 34 felonies during an interview with Piers Morgan.
In a segment from the interview that will air on TalkTV later today, Ms. Daniels says she believes Trump should go to prison for his long list of alleged misdeeds, but not for the ones that include her.
‘Specific to my case I don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration,’ she said.
‘I feel like the other things that he has done if he is found guilty, absolutely, because our bigger problem is that if these allegations against him– or whatever else that we don’t know– if he is found guilty or the evidence suggests that he is and he doesn’t [go to jail] that is going to basically, it opens the door to other people to think they can get away with doing that and worse.’
During the candid 90 minute one-on-one, she reveals she would testify if called to give evidence as she has ‘nothing to hide’.
‘It’s daunting, but I look forward to it,’ she added.
‘I am the only one that has been telling the truth.’
Ms Daniels said she looked forward to testifying in court as it would ‘legitimise her story’, and would be offended if she was not asked to speak during the trial.
‘I feel like if they don’t it paints a picture that they know something about me that makes me untrustworthy or not reliable,’ she told Morgan.
‘Having them call me in and putting me on the stand legitimises my story and who I am– and if they don’t it almost looks like they’re hiding me and people will automatically assume– I would– “oh she must not be a good witness.”’
Ms Daniels first made headlines in 2018 when she spoke of an alleged affair between her and Mr Trump in 2006.
The hush money payments allegedly occurred in 2016, just days before the presidential election, when Daniels offered to sell her story to a gossip magazine.
Trump reportedly instructed his attorney, Michael Cohen, to make the payments to Daniels to prevent the story from going public.
Cohen later pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges related to the payments.
The charging documents also mention two more alleged hush money payments- $150,000 to former playboy model Karen McDougal and a $30,000 payment to a doorman at Trump Tower who claimed he had information that Mr Trump had fathered a child with a woman while married to Melania Trump.
Mr Trump ‘repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,’ the charging documents read.