Porn star Stormy Daniels reveals details of alleged Trump affair

This image released by CBS News shows Stormy Daniels, left, during an interview with Anderson Cooper. Picture: CBS News/60 Minutes via AP

This image released by CBS News shows Stormy Daniels, left, during an interview with Anderson Cooper. Picture: CBS News/60 Minutes via AP

Published Mar 26, 2018

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Washington - An adult-film actress who

claims she had sex with Donald Trump before he was president

said on Sunday she had been threatened in 2011 while in a

parking lot with her infant daughter to discourage her from

discussing the relationship.

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, told

CBS News' "60 Minutes" that she was on her way to a fitness

class with her child when an unknown man approached her,

according to a transcript of the interview released on Sunday.

"And a guy walked up on me and said to me, 'Leave Trump

alone. Forget the story.' And then he leaned around and looked

at my daughter and said, 'That’s a beautiful little girl. It'd

be a shame if something happened to her mom.' And then he was

gone," Daniels said.

Daniels sued the president on March 6, stating Trump never

signed an agreement for her to keep quiet about an "intimate"

relationship between them.

White House aides did not respond immediately to requests

for comment after the interview aired.

Trump did not respond to reporters' shouted questions about

whether he would watch the interview when he returned to the

White House from Florida on Sunday evening.

Daniels' appearance represented back-to-back trouble for

Trump after an interview broadcast last week on CNN with former

Playboy model Karen McDougal, who described a 10-month-long

affair with Trump starting in 2006.

Trump would have been married to his wife, Melania, during

both the alleged extramarital relationships. The first lady

accompanied him this weekend to his Florida golf club. A White

House spokeswoman said Melania stayed behind, as is her custom

during their son's school holiday.

Daniels told "60 Minutes" she and Trump had had sexual

relations only once, but that she had seen him on other

occasions and he had kept in touch with her.

She said she was not attracted to Trump, who was 60 at the

time. Daniels was 27 in 2006.

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The White House has denied he had an affair with Daniels,

although Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen said he paid her $130 000

of his own money during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

The payment could pose a legal problem. Watchdog groups have

filed complaints with the Department of Justice and Federal

Election Commission, saying that it may have violated campaign

finance law by exceeding the limit on the size of a

contribution.

Cohen, who has denied that there was an affair, has not

explained why he made the payment or said whether Trump was

aware of it.

After the interview screened, Cohen's lawyer Brent Blakely

wrote to Daniels' attorney to say she made false and defamatory

comments, "namely that he (Cohen) was responsible for an alleged

thug who supposedly visited" and threatened her.

"In truth, Mr. Cohen had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do

with any such person or incident, and does not even believe that

any such person exists, or that such incident ever occurred,"

Blakely said in the letter.

Daniels and her attorney would not discuss in the interview

whether they had text messages or other materials that might

verify her story.

She was asked why she repeatedly signed statements denying

the relationship with Trump, and acknowledged that there could

be questions about her credibility.

"I felt intimidated and ... honestly bullied. And I didn't

know what to do. And so I signed it," Daniels said.

Asked why viewers could be confident now that she was

telling the truth, she said: "Cause I have no reason to lie. I'm

opening myself up for, you know, possible danger, and definitely

a whole lot of s***," she said. 

Reuters

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