Adult film actress Stormy Daniels claimed in a new documentary that she only accepted hush money from former President Donald Trump because she feared for her life.
In the film, Daniels said she was “very relieved” when her former manager Gina Rodriguez reached out and offered her “the chance to keep it quiet.”
“I was f—ing terrified!” Daniels said, highlighted by Mediaite. “I mean, people have been suspiciously killed for political reasons.”
Daniels said her friend told her she may be in trouble because she was “the whole Republican Party’s problem” amid Trump’s first bid for the White House. Her friend added that politicians “like to make their problems go away,” according to Daniels.
Daniels claimed she took the money that was paid to her to avoid speaking about an affair she allegedly had with Trump in 2006 because she wanted to avoid having the story come out.
In the film, she also acknowledged she took the $130,000 payment because “there would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed.”
“All I had to do was sign this piece of paper and collect $130,000,” she added.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) charged Trump in the case with 34 counts of falsifying business records last spring over reimbursements Trump made to his then-fixer, Michael Cohen.
Cohen had paid porn actress Daniels to keep quiet about an affair she alleged to have had with Trump. The indictment accused Trump of improperly deeming the reimbursements a legal retainer to conceal damaging information from the public ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump, who denies the affair, pleaded not guilty.
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