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A new documentary profiles Stormy Daniels and her experience at the center of the scandal involving her alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and the $130,000 hush money payment she received in 2016 not to discuss it during his presidential campaign.
Daniels describes the sex with Trump as “awful” and says she fears for her safety, believing Trump could have her killed.
“I don’t remember how I got on the bed, and then the next thing I know, he was humping away and telling me how great I was. It was awful. But I didn’t say ‘No,’” she said.
“It wasn’t rape in any sense. I didn’t say no, because I was 9 years old again,” she said.
She took the hush money payment in part to create a paper trail linking them to prevent Trump from having her killed.
Daniels has faced threats and says she continues speaking out to support her family, despite owing Trump over $600,000 in legal fees from her dismissed defamation lawsuit against him.
“When the indictment happened, Michael Cohen actually texted me and expressed extreme fear for my safety,” Daniels said.
“Back in 2018, [people online called me] stuff like ‘liar,’ ‘slut,’ ‘gold digger.’ This time around it is very different. It is direct threats, it is, ‘I’m going to come to your house and slit your throat, your daughter should be euthanized.’ They’re not even using bot accounts, they’re using their real accounts.”
“Not to be morbid, but we should write something saying, like, ‘And if something happens to me, then you get the hard drives to do with what you want,’” Daniels told a journalist.
“No one knows you’re here. No one knows to come after you. And you can make a copy of it and walk into any news station or police department and be like, ‘Here’s everything.’ And then sell it for as much as you can to ‘E! True Hollywood’ or whatever, and split it 50/50 with [my daughter].”
“‘If something happens to me, then you get the hard drives to do with what you want,’” Daniels said.
“The president strongly, clearly and has consistently denied these underlying claims,” Raj Shah, the deputy press secretary, stated in 2018.
The documentary examines how Daniels’ life was upended by coming forward about the affair and payment.
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