Adult film star Stormy Daniels called the possibility of testifying against former President Trump as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan “daunting” but said she looks forward to telling her story in court if called to the stand.
“I mean, anytime you’re up in the public eye, it’s scary. I mean, I used to get scared giving an oral book report in school. So I mean, it’s daunting, but I look forward to it,” Daniels said in an interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” an excerpt of which was released before it’s set to air Thursday night on Fox Nation.
“Because I have nothing to hide. I’m the only one that has been telling the truth,” Daniels added.
Trump was charged in connection with a six-figure payment that Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid to Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence her allegations that the two had an affair, which Trump denies. The former president, now a candidate for the White House in 2024, pleaded not guilty to all counts during his arraignment earlier this week.
Daniels said in the interview that she worries not calling her to testify could paint the picture “that they know something about me that makes me you know, untrustworthy or not reliable.”
“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. And people automatically assume — I would — that, oh, she must not be a good witness. She’s not credible,” Daniels said.
Trump is now the first sitting or former U.S. president to face criminal charges.
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case in New York City has set the next in-person hearing for Dec. 4, roughly two months before the official start of the 2024 Republican presidential primary calendar.
Trump in a statement Thursday again denied the affair and accused Daniels of being “out yet again for her moment of fame.”
He also noted the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week ordered Daniels to pay him more than $120,000 in attorney fees over separate defamation lawsuit she filed against him, which was dismissed 2018.
Updated: 3:28 p.m.