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Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims to have had an affair with former President Donald Trump, is back in the news this week after she made another round of comments about former President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump.
During an interview on the Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O., Daniels claimed that it’s inevitable that Melania will divorce Donald Trump.
“She knows how to find me. Maybe she’ll ask me to testify at her divorce hearing,” Daniels said when asked if she had ever tried to reach out to Melania.
“You think they’ll get divorced?” asked Sandilands, to which Daniels responded: “Oh, I think so.”
Daniels later backtracked and said she did not want to “speak for another woman or to know what she’s thinking’, but noted Melania’s silence ‘speaks more than words.”
“She hasn’t said anything. Silence sometimes speaks more than words and she was not with him at his arraignment,” Daniels explained to Sandilands and his co-host Jackie Henderson.
Daniels also reiterated comments she made last week to the New York Post, where she spoke about whether it would be worth it if her scandal prevented Trump from becoming president again. Daniels said, “It depends on who would get elected instead. It could be even worse. And then I’ve made the most terrible mistake.”
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The interview came a week after another interview she did with Fox Nation.
She sat with host Piers Morgan for an interview in which she said she would testify against the former president if asked. She also said that even she does not think Trump should be incarcerated based on this case.
“I just finished an astonishing 90-minute interview with Stormy Daniels,” the interviewer said on Twitter. “Everyone’s had their say about her, now she tells HER story about the fling that may send President Trump to prison.”
“It’s daunting, but I look forward to it. You know what I mean? Because I have nothing to hide,” Daniels said of testifying. “I’m the only one that has been telling the truth. And, you know, it can’t shame me anymore.”
“I think having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimizes my story and who I am. And if they don’t, it almost feels like they’re hiding me,” she said.
She does not believe he deserves to be imprisoned in the hush money case, but had thoughts on other cases against him.
“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.”
Stormy Daniels on if Donald Trump deserves jail time:
"I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration."pic.twitter.com/WgMQTRHvnH
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) April 6, 2023
Daniels, the adult film star at the center of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment against former President Donald Trump, was hit with another round of bad news earlier this month.
Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of the National Review, published an analysis detailing how “Donald Trump and his legal team say that Stormy Daniels extorted him, they are right.”
“There’s been a lot of focus on the timing of the $130,000 payment to Daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. Trump’s pursuers say this shows how the hush money was all about making the story go away right before the election. But the timing was also a function of Daniels and her side realizing that right after the release of the Access Hollywood tape was the point of maximum leverage to make an extortionate demand,” Lowry wrote.
“Make no mistake, though, the difference between what Stormy Daniels was doing in 2016 and what gets people prosecuted for extortion is one of degree, not of kind. It takes two to tango — the women made the demands, and Trump paid up because it was worth it to him to make these stories go away. Again, he was no victim, but the women who cashed in were neither victims nor saints,” he added.
Daniels being accused of extortion comes after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals awarded Trump $121,962.56 in attorney fees from Daniels.
The nearly $122,00 is in addition to the roughly $500,000 that she was ordered to pay him last year.
The ruling came down as Trump was in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to 34 charges regarding allegations that he falsified business records related to Daniels’s hush money case.
Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in a case involving his purported role in hush money payments to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, allegedly to keep Daniels quiet about an affair the two of them had in 2006.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is separate from the Manhattan case.
Daniels made headlines again last week when she sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan, in which she said she would testify against the former president if asked. Daniels also said that even she does not think Trump should be incarcerated based on this case.
“I just finished an astonishing 90-minute interview with Stormy Daniels,” the interviewer said on Twitter. “Everyone’s had their say about her, now she tells HER story about the fling that may send President Trump to prison.”
“It’s daunting, but I look forward to it. You know what I mean? Because I have nothing to hide,” Daniels said of testifying. “I’m the only one that has been telling the truth. And, you know, it can’t shame me anymore.”
“I think having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimizes my story and who I am. And if they don’t, it almost feels like they’re hiding me,” she said.
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Stormy Daniels on if Donald Trump deserves jail time:
"I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration."pic.twitter.com/WgMQTRHvnH
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) April 6, 2023
She does not believe he deserves to be imprisoned in the hush money case but had thoughts on other cases against him.
“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.”
