PORN STAR SET FOR TELEVISION INTERVIEW ON TRUMP AFFAIR

NEW YORK: Porn actress Stormy Daniels will on Sunday sit for a highly-anticipated interview that could shed new light on the affair she says she had with Donald Trump a decade before his election as US president.

Contrary to its usual practice, CBS has not released excerpts of the interview on its flagship “60 Minutes” programme.

Daniels told The Washington Post her work in adult entertainment had allowed her to develop a “thick skin,” but “nothing could truly prepare someone for this”.

She said she “simply wanted to tell my personal truth and defend myself.”

Daniels has previously spoken about the affair, including in a recent tweet: “Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star.”

On Sunday, Chris Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax and a close confidant of Trump, played down its significance. “This is politically motivated to hurt or embarrass (Trump) in some way... I think the American people are really dismissing this as political witch hunts,” he told ABC News.

2 LAWYERS TO NOT JOIN TRUMP LEGAL TEAM

Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, one of his attorneys said on Sunday.

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that Washington lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have conflicts that won’t allow them to represent the president regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The announcement came just hours after Trump used Twitter to push back against reports that he’s having difficulty adding to his legal team, saying he was “very happy” with his current attorneys.