Stormy Daniels Says She Stayed Silent on Trump Out of Fear
Forget the story.’ And he leaned round and looked at my daughter
and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom.”
So when her previous lawyer came to her with an offer brokered by Mr. Cohen in the final days of the presidential
campaign, she said, she agreed because, “I was concerned for my family and their safety.”
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Ms. Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, was the featured subject of what was the most highly anticipated episode of “60 Minutes” in its recent history, turning her
story about a consensual relationship with the president into something of a national event, one replete with viewing parties and “Dark and Stormy” cocktail specials at bars.
By JIM RUTENBERGMARCH 25, 2018
Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels, told “60 Minutes”
that a man threatened her after she agreed to a tell a magazine about an affair with Donald J. Trump.
The adult film star Stephanie Clifford told “60 Minutes”
that she struck a $130,000 deal for her silence about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump in the final days of the 2016 campaign because she was worried about her safety and that of her young daughter.