An attorney for Stormy Daniels, one of the key witnesses in former President Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money case in New York, said she wore a bulletproof vest to the courthouse because she was “paralyzed with fear” over possible violence.
“She was concerned about the security coming into New York,” Clark Brewster, Ms. Daniels‘ attorney, said on CNN’s “AC360” Monday. “She wore a bulletproof vest every day until she got to the courthouse.”
“I can tell you before she came on Sunday, I mean she cried herself to sleep. She was paralyzed with fear,” he said. “Not of taking the stand or telling her story, but what some nut might do to her. And I’m genuinely concerned about it as well.”
Ms. Daniels, a porn actress, has testified against Mr. Trump in the criminal case. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with reimbursement payments to his former attorney Michael Cohen.
His lawyers have said the payments to Mr. Cohen were actual legal expenses and not to cover up his alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Ms. Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
He has denied having sex with Ms. Daniels.
She testified that she met the former president at a celebrity golf outing in Lake Tahoe. She also admitted that she hated Mr. Trump and that she wants him “held accountable.”
She denied allegations that she was trying to extort money from him.