Adult film star Stormy Daniels has spoken out on claims she is set to quit living in the U.S. following Donald Trump‘s recent presidential election victory.
Daniels and Trump have been locked in a public war of words for several years after she shared allegations of a purported one-night stand with the president-elect that she said took place in 2006. Trump has been married to Melania Trump since 2005.
While Donald Trump has denied an affair, he made history in May as the first former president convicted of a felony when a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. The charges stemmed from a $130,000 payment made to Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election, which prosecutors argued was part of a scheme to influence that election’s outcome.
Despite the onetime real estate mogul’s conviction, he successfully ran for a second term in the White House, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the days leading up to November 5’s election, Daniels took to X, formerly Twitter, to share a post in which she expressed support for Harris. As well as support, the post was met with derisive responses from a number of X users, one of whom wrote: “A porn actress with a very low IQ shouldn’t be giving anybody any advice.”
“And a lying orange turd with 34 guilty verdicts shouldn’t be running for president yet here we are,” Daniels clapped back.
Carrying on discussion days after the election, another X user chimed in: “You got your plane ticket yet or did GoFundMe donations dry up? Asking for all those that believed you when you said you were leaving if the Don got back in.”
“I never said anything about leaving,” Daniels responded. “Just booked another tour for January since my last shows sold out. Not sure what planet over a million dollars is considered ‘dried up’ either but ok.”
I never said anything about leaving. Just booked another tour for January since my last shows sold out. Not sure what planet over a million dollars is considered “dried up” either but ok
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) November 18, 2024
In June, Daniels’ former manager Dwayne Crawford launched a GoFundMe campaign on his client’s behalf with the aim of raising funds for her to relocate to a more secure location for her family’s protection following a series of threats.
While Daniels has denied any plans to leave the U.S. in light of Donald Trump winning the election, her husband, Barrett Blade, had previously stated that there was a “good chance” they would move overseas if the Republican was acquitted in his hush money trial.
Speaking with CNN‘s Erin Burnett on OutFront days before the verdict was handed down in May, Blade said: “Either way, I don’t think it gets better for her. I think if it’s not guilty, we got to decide what to do. Good chance we’ll probably vacate this country.”
“I don’t see it as a win situation either way,” he continued. “I know that we would like to get on with our lives. I know that she wants to move past this. We just want to do what I guess you’d say normal people get to do in some aspects, but I don’t know if that ever will be, you know, and it breaks my heart.”
In the days since the election, it has been reported that Donald Trump’s legal team recently attempted to negotiate a reduction in the substantial legal fees Daniels owes him, allegedly in exchange for her silence ahead of his return to office in 2025.
The case took a new turn when Judge Juan Merchan postponed a decision on whether to dismiss the president-elect’s conviction in the trial. The decision is now scheduled for November 19, with Trump’s attorneys arguing that dismissal is necessary to avoid “unconstitutional impediments” to his ability to govern when he returns to the White House.
in October, MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow reported that Donald Trump’s attorneys allegedly attempted to broker a new arrangement with Daniels, who currently owes the president-elect more than $600,000 in legal fees from a failed 2018 defamation lawsuit. Per documents reviewed by MSNBC, Donald Trump’s lawyers proposed reducing Daniels’ debt from $650,000 to $620,000 in exchange for her written agreement not to discuss any alleged past interactions with the former star of The Apprentice or comment on his return to the presidency.
Daniels’ legal team reportedly countered with a $635,000 settlement offer without confidentiality requirements. The two sides eventually agreed to $627,500 without a silence provision, according to Maddow’s reporting.
Donald Trump’s communication director Steven Cheung previously disputed the authenticity of these documents, claiming they were obtained through “an illegal foreign hacking attack against President Trump and his team.” Maddow has maintained that the materials came directly from Daniels’ attorneys.
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