Adult film actress husband Stormy Daniels said on Tuesday that there is a “good chance” the couple will leave the country if the former president donald trump is acquitted at his criminal trial in Manhattan.
Barrett Blade spoke to CNN Erin Burnett about the bitterness his wife, who is a key figure in the controversy over a secret 2016 payment allegedly made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf, has faced.
“Either way, I don’t think things get better for her. I think if he’s not guilty, we have to decide what to do. There’s a good chance we’re going to vacate this country,” Blade said on “OutFront,” adding that if Trump is found guilty, he believed Daniels would still face hatred from supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
“Either way, I don’t see this as a win-win situation,” he said. “I know we would like to get on with our lives. I know she wants to get over this. We just want to do what I guess you would say normal people do in some ways, but I don’t know if that will happen, you know, and it breaks my heart.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she had a one-night stand with Trump in 2006 and was paid in 2016 to keep silent about the affair. Prosecutors allege Trump broke the law by falsifying business records to reimburse his former lawyer michael cohen and concealing a “hush money” payment made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf. The controversy dates back to January 2018, when the Wall Street Journal reported the payment of US$130,000. Trump pleaded not guilty and denied the case.
On the witness stand last week, Daniels described meeting Trump at a celebrity golf tournament as well as salacious details of her alleged sexual encounter with him. She’s aHe also testified about the interest that Trump and Cohen appeared to have had in buying his story after the “Access Hollywood” tape was released just before the 2016 election.
During questioning, Trump’s lawyers attacked Daniels’ credibility. Attorney Susan Necheles accused her of fabricating the alleged sexual encounter to make money. Daniels pushed back and insisted she was telling the truth.
“If that story wasn’t true, I would have written it to be a lot better,” Daniels said of his meeting with Trump.
When questioned by Burnett about the defense’s claim that Daniels fabricated her story, Blade echoed his wife’s comments, describing her as “a brilliant writer” and adding that she had written something “much better than what she said about the Trump story. ”
Blade also noted that Daniels just wants to “get on with her life.”
“As much as it sucks for the media to hear this over and over again, it sucks for them to have to keep saying the same thing over and over,” Blade said. “It tires her, but she is a warrior.”
Blade also said that the hate his wife receives doesn’t really matter to him because Daniels “is used to all of this” and that she was prepared because she continues to receive a lot of criticism and negative comments on social media.
“This is all her fighting for what she believes is right and telling the truth, and I don’t think a lot of people realize that,” he continued.
CNN’s Shania Shelton, Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell contributed to this report.
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