- Stormy Daniels says Trump should be held accountable for his crimes.
- But she also thinks Trump shouldn't go to prison over hush money payment-related charges.
- "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration," Daniels told Piers Morgan.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels says she doesn't think former
President Donald Trump should be imprisoned over hush money-related charges
in New York.
"I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy
of incarceration. I feel like the other things that he has done if he is
found guilty, absolutely," Daniels told TV show host Piers Morgan.
Daniels
was speaking with Morgan for a one-and-a-half-hour-long interview on Fox
Nation released on Thursday. The interview was filmed after Trump's Tuesday
arrest and arraignment hearing in New York.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, added that the
charges brought against Trump signal that he has been "dethroned" and is "no
longer untouchable."
"It doesn't matter if you are the president,
you should be held accountable for your actions," Daniels said.
She
also said she would be willing to testify in court if called to the
stand.
"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," Daniels said.
On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not
guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, brought by
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The crimes Trump was charged with
are connected to an election-eve hush money payment of $130,000 made to
Daniels in 2016 by Trump's former fixer and personal lawyer, Michael
Cohen.
Trump became the first ex-president to be charged with a crime
after the arrest and arraignment hearing. But the chances that he'll serve
prison time over the charges in New York are slim to none.
Trump
is, however, currently facing a full slate of legal cases and criminal
investigations. This includes an investigation from Georgia prosecutor Fani
Willis into whether he attempted to overturn the 2020 election in the
state.
The Department of Justice is also probing whether Trump
mishandled classified documents and brought top-secret files to his
Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Daniels has been highly vocal
about her distaste for Trump, who she says she had an affair with back in
2006.
Last month, Daniels tweeted to celebrate that orders for
her #teamstormy merchandise poured in after his indictment.
She also mocked Trump for being arrested, and separately
accused him of being obsessed with her.
Trump has denied the
affair.
Separately on Tuesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of
Appeals sided with Trump and ordered Daniels to pay Trump more than $120,000
in legal fees, on top of the more than $500,000 worth of court-ordered
payments that she was earlier asked to make to Trump's lawyers.
This
was after Daniels lost a 2018 defamation lawsuit.
The appeals
court ruling was not legally connected to the charges brought by the
Manhattan district attorney last week.
