Daniels files $2M suit over strip-club arrest

Stormy Daniels is seeking some serious redress for the strip-club sting that led to her “bogus” arrest in Ohio last July.

The adult film star — who already is suing President Donald Trump over the $130,000 hush-money deal involving their alleged tryst — filed a $2 million defamation lawsuit Monday against the Columbus Police Department officers who tried to bust her.

The new lawsuit claims the officers were Trump supporters who used her arrest as “retaliation” for her public statements and to “damage her credibility.”

The lawsuit says evidence proves that one of the officers, Detective Shana Keckley, “performed extensive research” before Daniels’ July 11 show at Sirens Gentlemen’s Club — despite police initially claiming Daniels was simply caught up in an ongoing vice operation that did not target her specifically.

The complaint also claims Keckley bragged about nabbing Daniels hours after the collar.

“You’re Welcome!!!” Keckley purportedly said in an email to her lieutenant after the arrest. “Thank me in person later.”

The Fayette Advocate was first to publish Keckley’s damaging email after it was leaked by a whistleblower last year.

Daniels’ new complaint, filed in federal court in Ohio, further claims the officers spent $768 “of taxpayer money on their exploit,” including $129 on alcohol and $639 on cover charges and tips.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was arrested after the show along with two other club employees. She was booked on three misdemeanor charges of illegal sexual activity for allegedly pressing patrons’ faces into her bare chest.

Prosecutors dropped Daniels’ charges hours later, saying the arcane law cited in her arrest applied only to performers who “regularly” appeared at the club.

Police Chief Kim Jacobs later apologized and called the arrest a “mistake.”

Six days after Ohio prosecutors rejected the case against Daniels, they also dropped charges against the two other women arrested that night.