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Daniels reveals ‘threat’ to keep silent

Porn star details Trump fling in primetime TV interview

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Porn actress Stormy Daniels said she was threatened in a bid to keep her silent about her alleged fling with Donald Trump, which she detailed in a highlyanti­cipated primetime TV interview Sunday.

Daniels told Anderson Cooper on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program that she had unprotecte­d sex with Trump once in 2006, and was threatened by a man in a parking lot in Las Vegas when she agreed to tell her story in 2011.

She is seeking to be released from a non-disclosure agreement she signed shortly before the 2016 presidenti­al election that brought Trump to power, for which she was paid $130,000 – leading to allegation­s that the payment amounted to an illicit contributi­on to Trump’s campaign.

When asked by Cooper if she had sex with Trump, Daniels responded: “Yes.”

She was not attracted to Trump and did not want to have sex with him, but: “I didn’t say no. I’m not a victim,” Daniels said, according to an advance transcript of the interview.

She said she stayed in contact with Trump after the encounter because “I thought of it as a business deal,” as the tycoon had said he would try to get her on “The Apprentice,” the reality TV show he hosted at the time.

At the time, Trump did not ask her not to reveal the encounter, but that changed when she agreed to tell her story to a magazine for $15,000 in 2011, Daniels said.

“I was in a parking lot, going to a fitness class with my infant daughter. T-taking, you know, the seats facing backwards in the backseat, diaper bag, you know, gettin’ all the stuff out,” she said.

“And a guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.’ And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom,’” Daniels said.

The experience left her shaking in fear and afraid she would drop her daughter, she added.

Cooper asked: “You took it as a direct threat?” “Absolutely,” Daniels said. Daniels said that fear also motivated her to sign the non-disclosure agreement 11 days before the election in 2016.

“The story was coming out again. I was concerned for my family and their safety,” she said.

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