'Sex Scandal Hush Money' Subject Daniels Says "Trump Should Go to Jail"

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Stormy Daniels (45), a former adult film actress and the central figure in the 'hush money for sexual scandal' case involving former U.S. President Donald Trump, said that Trump, who was found guilty, should go to prison.

Former porn actress Stephanie Clifford (stage name Stormy Daniels, right), who claims to have had sexual relations with U.S. President Donald Trump, is leaving the U.S. District Court in New York with her lawyer after a hearing on the 16th of last month (local time).
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In an interview with the British tabloid Sunday Mirror on the 1st (local time), Daniels said, "I think he (former President Trump) should receive a prison sentence and be ordered to perform community service for the underprivileged. Otherwise, he should volunteer as a 'punching bag' at a women's shelter."

Daniels also criticized former President Trump’s presidential bid, saying he "knows nothing about reality at all."

Having remained silent after testifying as a witness earlier last month in this trial, she said she was "shocked" that the jury quickly delivered a guilty verdict.

Regarding the guilty verdict, she said, "I was scared standing in court with the jury watching, but I am happy because I wanted and hoped to prove it, and the result came out as I wished," emphasizing, "As I have said before, I have always told the truth."

Daniels expressed that even though justice was served with this guilty verdict, she would not be free from threats by Trump supporters, saying, "This is not the end for me and it will never end. Trump may be guilty, but I still have to live with that legacy."

Daniels is a former adult film actress who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with former President Trump in 2006 and was subsequently silenced.

In her previous testimony, she claimed that after a golf tournament near Lake Tahoe, a tourist attraction in Nevada, she was invited to dinner at Trump’s hotel suite and later had sexual relations with him.

Former President Trump was prosecuted for paying Daniels $130,000 (about 170 million KRW) through Cohen just before the 2016 presidential election to prevent the disclosure of their past sexual relationship, and for falsifying company records related to that payment.

The jury, composed of 12 residents of Manhattan, New York, unanimously found Trump guilty on all 34 criminal charges related to this case on the 30th of last month. Accordingly, Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the trial, scheduled sentencing for July 11.

As attention focuses on how this guilty verdict will affect former President Trump’s presidential campaign, his lawyer, Alina Habba, said in an interview with the British BBC that Trump will run for the November election even if he is incarcerated.

Habba appeared on BBC’s talk show "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg," claiming that this trial was rigged and politically orchestrated by the prosecution, saying he has become "a victim of political and selective prosecution."

Habba further emphasized, "He ran to become president, and nothing will change regarding that. There are people in this country who need him, and that is more important than anything else."

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