Trump lawyer slated for calling Stormy ‘incredible’ tramp
LOS ANGELES: President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Stormy Daniels’s claim that she had sex with Trump in 2006 isn’t credible because she’s a porn actress with “no reputation,” a characterisation that quickly drew condemnation from members of the adult film industry.
“I’m sorry I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation,” Giuliani said this week in Tel Aviv.
Daniels’s work as an adult film actress “entitles you to no degree of giving your credibility any weight,” he said, saying people could “just look” at Daniels to know she wasn’t believable.
“Excuse me, but when you look at Stormy Daniels…” Giuliani said, prompting the moderator to interject and tell him that he must respect women while speaking at the “Globes” Capital Market conference.
However, Trump himself appeared in benign roles in at least three soft-core porn films in the 1990s and early 2000s.
People in the adult film industry took the former New York City mayor to task yesterday, saying his comments were aimed solely at discrediting Daniels because of how she makes a living and not based on the facts of the case.
“I think his statement is dangerous and dehumanising to sex workers,” said adult film actress Kimberly Kane. “We are already an extremely marginalised group made up mostly of women, people of colour, trans and the disabled, people who are trying to make a living like everyone else. Luckily for us, Americans do find Stormy credible and a powerful female to be reckoned with.”
Other advocates for legal sex-related industries bemoaned Giuliani’s comments as trying to silence women who face exploitation.
“It’s incredibly dangerous to attach the worth of a person to their sexual behaviour,” said Christa Daring, of the Sex Workers’ Outreach Project. “Frequently, appearance is weaponised against women in our society, whether that be because they’re too pretty or they’re too heavy,” Daring said.
Daniels’s attorney called for Trump to immediately fire Giuliani. –AP/African News Agency