Former United States president Donald Trump compared adult film actress Stormy Daniels to his daughter before cornering her in his hotel room in 2006, CNN reported.
In her documentary “Stormy”, which was released Monday on Peacock, Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — revealed to director Sarah Gibson how Trump compared her to his eldest daughter Ivanka before a one-night stand with her.
“He told me I reminded him of his daughter,” Daniels tells Gibson in her documentary.
“I felt like he was being sympathetic to me. Ivanka is beautiful and she’s blonde and I’m sure she’s had people assume that she’s an idiot. But I felt like as this father figure who has watched his daughter be treated a certain way couldn’t identify with me.
“I thought we had this mutual respect which is why I was so crazy when, having no red flags, whatsoever, in a conversation, I came out of a bathroom to find myself cornered.”
Daniels said that she agreed to a $130,000 hush money payment just before the 2016 presidential elections to keep her one-night stand with Trump from becoming public, and so “that there would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed.”
The documentary provides an inside look at Daniels’ life after the public revelation of the hush money payment in 2018 that landed Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen in federal prison for campaign finance violations.
The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate was then charged with falsifying business records and covering up the reimbursement for influencing the election.
Trump’s attorneys argue that the release of the documentary should be grounds to dismiss the indictment or delay the trial, as it comes one week before jury selection.
They claim that some of Daniels’ statements, including threats of violence, would be harmful to Trump and blamed prosecutors for not informing them about the documentary.
