Stormy Daniels tells Rachel Maddow she's faced 'graphic' and 'brazen' death threats
Stormy Daniels is ducking nonstop death threats and facing financial ruin ever since she testified in Donald Trump's hush money case.
Daniels spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in an interview that aired Tuesday night, detailing harassment and dire financial struggles she faces due to the case. It was her first TV interview since the former president became a convicted felon on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic hush money trial.
"The biggest thing is that they're not hiding like they used to," she said, referring to those wishing to harm her and her family. "It used to be bots, you know, now they're using their real stuff.
"There's, you know, Facebook threads from people in my own community [who say] they plan to do things to my house and my family."
For six years, Daniels said she has tried to keep her wits while regularly fielding graphic missives saying things like, "they are going to rape everybody in my family including my young daughter before they kill them."
Daniels was brought to Lower Manhattan criminal court where she recounted under oath a tryst with Trump in 2006 at a Lake Tahoe hotel during a golf tournament. The former president stood accused of fudging a six-figure sum to Daniels to buy her silence weeks before the 2016 election.
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While he chose not to testify at his trial, Trump denied he had sexual relations with Daniels.
Even during last week's debate, the presumptive Republican nominee told 50 million people: "I didn't have sex with a porn star."
Trump has vowed to appeal the verdict.
"Trump is trying to make, I believe, trying to make an example out of me," she told Maddow, adding that it's an example "of anybody who dares stand up to him."
She claims she's had to pick pellets out of her horse and pick up seemingly never-ending legal documents.
"I was served again... the day before yesterday," she said.
Daniels believes her partner's home is under threat because of her tenancy.
"They are trying to take my partner's house," she said, noting that she pays rent monthly to help with his mortgage, adding, "they're demanding personal information about my 13-year-old daughter."
Daniels said after she was doxxed and her address leaked, ‘I can’t go anywhere.’
"It's kind of common knowledge now that I -- a lot of people were doxxed," she said. "I know that Cohen was doxxed. They're trying to dox jurors. The judges were doxed. I was doxxed. And I know that it's directly related because it happened while I was literally still on the stand."
She also detailed the repercussions of having her address in public.
“My mailbox is destroyed. My animals have been injured. My daughter can't go outside. There's press and lookie-loos out there. I'm afraid to go outside. I'm afraid to go out and mow the lawn. I can't go anywhere. I'm afraid of being followed. The death threats are so much more graphic and detailed and brazen," she said.
When Daniels refused to complete a document requesting details about her daughter, she claimed: "I could be held in contempt with sanctions and that I have to pay this money."
That would be on top of the estimated $600,000 she owes to Trump for a defamation case she brought that was tossed.
She complimented columnist E. Jean Carroll who successfully beat Trump twice in court for defamation, but wonders how she managed to win and be "given millions" while her attorney fees "racked up to over half a million."
When Maddow asked if she had the means to pay the substantial monies — Daniels admitted she couldn't.
"No, and nor do I think I should," she said. "It's not fair."
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