The former porn actress at the heart of the affair which led to ex-President Donald Trump being found criminally guilty, Stormy Daniels, called on American justice to incarcerate the Republican candidate, who according to her lost touch with reality.
“Put him in jail,” said Stormy Daniels, 45, on the British newspaper’s website Daily Mirrorin his first interview since the New York court’s decision.
“I believe he should be sentenced to prison and community service for the less fortunate, or serve as a voluntary punching bag in a women’s shelter,” she added, judging the Republican candidate “completely and totally disconnected from reality”.
After two days of deliberations, the 12 jurors unanimously declared Donald Trump guilty on Thursday of all 34 crimes of falsification of accounting documents, intended to hide a payment of 130,000 dollars to Stormy Daniels to avoid a just sex scandal before the 2016 presidential election.
The ex-actress claims to have had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump 10 years earlier, an episode that Donald Trump fiercely contests.
This unprecedented situation plunges the campaign for the November 5 presidential election between Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor into uncertainty.
“Never finished”
Testifying in court “was so intimidating, with the jurors looking at you,” said Stormy Daniels, “but like I said before, I told the truth the whole time.”
The testimony of the ex-actress, Stephanie Clifford, her real name, was one of the high points of the debates. She notably recounted in detail this sexual relationship, according to her consensual but where the “balance of power” was “unbalanced”.
“It’s not over for me,” “it’ll never be over for me,” she said. Even though Trump is found guilty, “I still have to live with this legacy.”
The former president faces up to four years in prison, possibly accompanied by a fine. But the judge could impose a suspended prison sentence, or even community service.
“I don’t know what the punishment will be or what Trump will even understand,” she added, in an analogy to how you punish a child.
“You have to find the punishment that fits the crime, but is fair and affects that particular person,” she said, “who knows what it would be for Trump.”
Bullet proof vest
Since Donald Trump’s conviction, Stormy Daniels had remained silent until then.
Her husband, Barrett Blade, and her lawyer, Clark Brewster, to whom she had left it to speak in the media, suggested that apprehension, even fear, was not unrelated to this silence.
“She is still digesting” the verdict, and “now all the stupid Trumpists are going to come after her,” Barrett Blade declared on CNN.
To the journalist from a local channel who mentioned the “stress” of Stormy Daniels before her testimony in court, to which she went in “bulletproof vest”, the lawyer for his part replied that he rather it was acting out of “fear” that “someone would do something crazy.”
In a disjointed speech on Friday, Donald Trump described this trial as “very unfair”, even rigged, but without providing the slightest proof. He promised to “appeal this scam” once the sentence is handed down.
For his part, Joe Biden judged it “inconsiderate”, “dangerous”, “irresponsible for anyone to say that (this trial) was rigged simply because he does not like the verdict”.