Adult film actress, Stormy Daniels says ex-US President, Donald Trump does not deserve to be jailed over the payment made to her which landed him in court this week on criminal charges.
The actress revealed this in an interview with Piers Morgan in what is her first interview since the hearing.”I don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration,”
Daniels said she did not think he deserved to be put behind bars for what he did, but added that if he was found guilty of other crimes then he should be jailed as an example to others.
When asked if she would testify in the forthcoming trial, Daniels said she “absolutely” would.
“It’s daunting but I look forward to it, I have nothing to hide. I’m the only one who has been telling the truth.”
According to her, she had mixed feelings when she saw Trump walk into the courtroom, but the overriding emotion was sadness.
“He had to be under the rule of someone else, the judge. The king had been dethroned. He’s no longer untouchable.”
The former US president pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to 34 counts of falsifying business records, with the felony charges carrying a maximum four-year jail sentence.
It is reported that Trump’s lawyer paid $130,000 to Daniels before the 2016 election to buy her silence as she was seeking to go public over an alleged affair.
Prosecutors say the way the lawyer was subsequently reimbursed by Mr Trump while he was president amounted to tax deception, because the accounts described the payments as legal expenses.
Trump faces separate criminal investigations for allegedly mishandling classified material, trying to overturn an election in Georgia, and over his role in the storming of the US Capitol building.
The prosecutor bringing the case, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said trying to disguise the payment to Daniels amounted to defrauding voters by suppressing negative stories on the eve of an election.
However, Trump denies ever having sexual relations with Ms Daniels and says the payment was made to protect his family from false allegations, not to sway the election.
The former president is running again for the White House and the criminal trial next year could disrupt his attempts to seek the Republican nomination.
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