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Stormy Daniels’ Documentary Comes Out Monday, and Trump’s Lawyers Are Freaking Out Big Time

There’s a new documentary about adult film actress Stormy Daniels and it’s jam-packed with bombshells that it already has Donald Trump’s “hush money” case lawyers in a big dither over it. BusinessInsider describes the documentary Stormy, as “smart” and “surprisingly moving.” Daniels, in the Peacock film, tells us that Trump “cornered” her into sex in his Lake Tahoe hotel suite when they met in 2006.

Trump maintains his pure-as-the-driven snow stance, continually denying he’s ever had sex with Stormy.

Because of course, he does.

“I don’t remember how I got on the bed, and then the next thing I know, he was humping away and telling me how great I was,” Daniels says in the film.

Eww. Poor Stormy. Hope I never have to read that quote again.

“It was awful. But I didn’t say ‘No.'”

During Trump’s nascent presidential run in 2016, Daniels signed an NDA, the aforementioned hush money agreement that’s central to his upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan, thus creating a paper trail tying their names together, she says in the documentary, “so that he could not have me killed.”

But this is the biggest bombshell revealed by the documentary: the $293,000 in legal fees that she was ordered to pay Trump five years ago — something that she says is unfair — has grown to more than $600,000 due to accrued interest. Daniels is digging her heels in here and says she’ll go to prison before paying him a dime.

“I don’t know if I’m so much a warrior, or —” she tells the camera. She pauses before adding, “Out of f*cks. I’m out of f*cks.”

And believe me, Trump’s glorified ambulance chasers are having a massive cow over this.

In court filings made public last week, his lawyers called the documentary “extraordinarily prejudicial,” and said Peacock’s premiere, date (Monday, March 18), which is Daniel’s 45th birthday was “unacceptable.” They go on to say the premiere date provided one of the strongest arguments for delaying the hush money trial, which was initially set to begin on Monday, March 25 one week after the film’s premiere.

Earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys requested that the judge push the trial back at least 90 days, claiming, in part, that the premiere “would cause extraordinarily prejudicial — and unacceptable — pretrial publicity on the current schedule.” The judge tossed them a partial bone — agreeing to a considerably shorter delay, telling both sides he will likely set a trial date for mid-April.

The lawyers also contended there is also their client to consider, they noted in the delay request made public on Thursday, adding that Trump needs to have a look at Stormy.

“President Trump requires additional time to review” the documentary, per the filing. “And the Court must allow additional time for the prejudice from its release to abate prior to commencing jury selection.”

And of course, his lawyers are requesting that Daniels be barred from testifying at the trial. Judge Juan Merchan has not ruled on this request as yet.

“She seeks to tell contrived stories with salacious details of events she claimed occurred nearly 20 years ago,” Trump’s lawyers complained previously in court papers, “which have no place at a trial involving the types of charges at issue.”

Prosecutors said last week they were amenable to a brief trial delay because more than 80,000 pages of potential evidence. The evidence was only recently turned over by federal prosecutors earlier this month, and it centers around the 2018 prosecution of Trump fixer Michael Cohen.

If Merchan sticks to the newly updated schedule, this means the trial could last through Memorial Day week.

A trove of celebrities, including Seth Rogen and Jimmy Kimmel, along with several journals and many of Daniels’ friends and family members give us a sympathetic look at her life story and the aftermath of her public accusations against the former president. It should be noted that Daniels had no editorial control over the documentary and wasn’t paid for her time on camera, according to producer Erin Lee Carr, who also said no one was paid for their interviews, though the filmmakers did pay to option Daniels’ 2018 memoir, Full Disclosure.

The documentary has many poignant moments and Daniels reveals for the first time, that when she was just nine years old and growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she was repeatedly abused by a much older neighbor.

But referring to her brief encounter with Trump, Daniels notes, “It wasn’t rape in any sense.” She was 27 at the time and Trump was 60, and married to Melania Trump, who had recently given birth to their son Barron.

“I didn’t say no,” she recalls of Trump’s advance, “because I was 9 years old again.”

But even so, perhaps this brought up memories of this vulnerable 9-year-old girl who was unlikely able to resist her neighbor’s advances.

Daniels also recalls on camera a story she’s told before, including during a 60 Minutes interview that attracted 20 million viewers in 2018. The story concerns what happened when she considered discussing her encounter with Trump publicly, in an interview in 2011, with In Touch magazine. The story wound up being spiked after Michael Cohen, who was serving as Trump’s attorney and fixer at the time threatened the magazine with legal action, and not long after that Daniels was threatened by a man in the parking lot of her gym, she said.

“It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom,” the stranger said, pointing toward her then-infant daughter. “Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,” the man warned her, she said. 

Five years passed before she decided to pass her story around again, this time to the National Enquirer, when according to Insider “she saw he [Trump] was running for president.”

It left her “terrified” of what could happen to herself and her family,” Daniels said in the film. That’s what led her to sign the NDA that Cohen gave her, as a way to leave a paper trail linking her to Trump “so that he could not have me killed,” she says in the documentary.

I guess being a crappy f*ck only once wasn’t enough for Trump.

When The Wall Street Journal broke the news of the NDA’s existence two years later, in 2018. Daniels reveals shewas bombarded with death threats. And in the six years since, she’s faced an online onslaught of cruelly vile and sadistic death threats and dealt with ribald Twitter fights with Trump, where he’d call her “Horseface” and she’d call him “Tiny.”

Daniels doesn’t look horse-faced to me but her calling him “tiny” probably fits.

But the threats continue and in the documentary, she says one of her horses was recently shot with a rubber bullet.

Daniels has been faced with “Really scary threats, and also people attacking her daughter recently” on social media, according to the documentary’s director, Sarah Gibson, told Insider.

But Daniels still has a mortgage to pay and a daughter to raise, so the show must go on, threats or no threats.

And since she always maintains a ribald sense of humor she’s embarked on the Make America Horny Again tour of strip club appearances. Including on Monday when the documentary hits smalls screens everywhere. She’s charging between $25 and $100 a ticket for a watch party she’s holding at a Brooklyn nightclub.

I hope she sells a trove of tickets and that the Tangerine Scream is sweating tangerine bullets over this. He’s caused Stormy Daniels a lot of unnecessary hell for no good reason except his own vanity.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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