Done being bullied, says Stormy Daniels
WASHINGTON: The porn actress alleging a sexual affair with US President Donald Trump released an artist’s sketch on Tuesday of a man she said threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet about the relationship, adding that she was “done being bullied”.
Stormy Daniels unveiled the image on ABC’s The View, immediately prompting online speculation about the identity of the man in a hoodie. She says she was threatened by the man in 2011 to keep quiet about a 2006 tryst with Trump.
Daniels said she did not report the threat at the time because she would have had to reveal the alleged affair and she was afraid.
“I didn’t want everyone to know, I didn’t want my family to find out that way. I didn’t want my life to turn upside down,” Daniels said. At the time, she said she hadn’t told her husband about the encounter with Trump and “I didn’t want him to think I was a bad mom or that I put our daughter in danger.”
Daniels says she had sex once with Trump in 2006 and that Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid her $130,000, days before the 2016 election, for her silence.
Daniels and her attorney Michael Avenatti have offered more information about the alleged threat. More than a week ago, Avenatti tweeted a photo that he said showed Daniels sitting with a forensic sketch artist. Avenatti said they are now offering $100,000 for information leading to the man’s identification.
TRUMP LAWYER’S 3RD CLIENT IS SEAN HANNITY
Trump’s legal fixer Michael Cohen has also been representing the firebrand conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of only three private legal clients Cohen has taken on in the past year, his lawyer told a federal court on Monday.
The revelation came as a federal judge rejected a bid by Trump and Cohen to prevent prosecutors from examining a cache of documents and recordings seized from the president’s long-time confidant.
Cohen’s office, hotel and home were raided by the FBI last week following a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller that incensed Trump and opened him up to a second front of legal peril.