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Stephanie Clifford Says She Was Threatened to Keep Quiet About Trump in 2011

HeadlineMar 26, 2018

In a highly anticipated episode of “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, adult film star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, told Anderson Cooper that she signed a nondisclosure agreement promising not to talk publicly about her 2006 alleged affair with President Trump because she was scared about her and her daughter’s safety. During the interview, which Trump’s personal lawyer had tried to block from airing, Clifford recounted a threat she’d received in 2011, after she sold her story about the alleged affair to Bauer Publishing, which publishes In Touch magazine.

Stephanie Clifford: “I was in a parking lot, going to a fitness class with my infant daughter. I was taking, you know, the seats facing backwards in the backseat, diaper bag, you know, getting all the stuff out. 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.’ And then he was gone.”

Anderson Cooper: “You took it as a direct threat?”

Stephanie Clifford: “Absolutely. I was rattled. I remember going into the workout class. And my hands are shaking so much, I was afraid I was going to drop her.”

Anderson Cooper: “Did you go to the police?

Stephanie Clifford: “No.”

Anderson Cooper: “Why?”

Stephanie Clifford: “Because I was scared.”

Clifford also says she spanked Trump with a magazine that had his face on the cover, that they had unprotected sex, and that Trump compared Clifford to his daughter, Ivanka. Stephanie Clifford’s interview Sunday night comes after model Karen McDougal also broke her nondisclosure agreement to speak publicly about her alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006. A third woman, “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, is suing President Trump for defamation, after Trump called her a liar when she accused him of sexual assault.

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