Stormy Daniels tells Morgan that she would like to testify if the case goes to trial. (file)
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of a criminal case against Donald Trump, said she doesn’t think the former president should go to prison if found guilty of hiding secret money payments.
Daniels, 44, said in an interview with Fox Nation’s Piers Morgan, “I don’t think his crimes against me deserve imprisonment. I think the other things he’s done, if he’s convicted, absolutely ” Will be aired on Thursday.
Trump was indicted on Tuesday in New York on 34 felony counts of secretly paying Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal money to suppress the publication of alleged sexual encounters with them ahead of the 2016 US election. Was.
Trump, 76, is also facing a separate criminal investigation into falsifying classified documents in an attempt to reverse his 2020 election loss in Washington and his defeat in Georgia in that state. .
Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first or former US president to face criminal charges, of trying to cover up violations of election laws during his successful 2016 campaign.
Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, has denied having an affair with Daniels but acknowledged the payment.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled for December 4. Legal experts said the trial may not go on for even a year, and that an indictment or even a conviction would not legally bar Trump from running for president.
Daniels told Morgan that she would like to testify if the case went to trial.
She said, “I have nothing to hide. I am only telling the truth.”
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