Porn actor claiming Trump affair says she was told: ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom’
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006, claimed on Sunday night that she was threatened with physical violence after she first attempted to go public with the story by a man who told her: “Leave Trump alone.”
Speaking to Anderson Cooper in a highly-anticipated broadcast on CBS’s news magazine, 60 Minutes, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, gave a vivid account of an encounter she said took place in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011.
At the time, she had recently arranged for the story of her sexual encounter with Trump to be told by In Touch magazine for $15,000, though the publication was stalling because Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen had threatened to sue, she said.
Daniels was on her way to a fitness class with her infant daughter when she said she was accosted.
“A guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.’”
It was at that point that the alleged threat of physical violence was made, according to her account.
Daniels told CBS that the man, who she could not identify, “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.”
The allegation that an individual threatened Daniels with actual violence while attempting to frighten her off going public about her sexual history with Trump takes the dispute between the president and the porn star to an entirely new level.
Up until now the tussle between them has focused on her claims of a sexual relationship – although Daniels told CBS they had sex only once – and Trump’s denials, as well as an ongoing legalistic spat over whether a non-disclosure agreement signed by Daniels just 11 days before the 2016 presidential election to silence her was binding or not.
