Adult film star Stormy Daniels (left) and ex-President Donald Trump (middle) spoke about his wife Melania Trump (right) three days after his guilty verdict in the hush money trial (Pictures: Getty Images)
Porn star Stormy Daniels offered advice to Melania Trump as her husband Donald Trump said his guilty verdict in the hush money case has been ‘very hard for her’.
The former president on Sunday, three days after a New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, revealed how his wife who was absent throughout the trial is taking the verdict.
‘She’s fine, but I think it’s very hard for her. She’s fine, but she has to read all this crap,’ Trump told Fox & Friends Weekend.
‘I think in many ways it’s tougher on my family than it is on me.’
Former President Donald Trump (left) said his guilty verdict was ‘very hard’ on his wife Melania Trump (right) (Picture: Getty Images)
Trump said, ‘I have a wonderful wife who has to listen to this stuff all the time.’
He added of his family: ‘They’re good people, all of them – everyone.’
The hush money case centered around a $130,000 payment Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, made to Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence her on an alleged sexual affair with him.
On the same day, Daniels, 45, urged Melania, 54, to divorce Trump.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels advised former First Lady Melania Trump to ‘leave’ her husband Donald Trump (Picture: Reuters)
‘I don’t know what their agreement may or may not be, but Melania needs to leave him,’ Daniels told The Sunday Mirror.
‘Not because of what he did with me or other women but because he is a convicted felon.
‘It’s been proven he is abusive; he was found liable for sexual assault and tax fraud and is now a criminal. He’s neither Teflon Don nor Teflon Con anymore.’
Daniels and Cohen both testified during the six-week trial that Trump did not express much concern around how Melania would perceive the hush money story going out in the press.
Former President Donald Trump said his guilty verdict has been ‘tougher’ for his wife Melania Trump than for him (Picture: EPA)
‘He wasn’t thinking about Melania,’ Cohen, the star witness, said on the stand. ‘This was all about the campaign.’
Daniels opined that both Melania and Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, did not attend his historic trial to protect their children.
‘I would not want to expose my children to that dangerous environment. And Melania and Ivanka are both parents, they’re mothers who have younger children, and that would be my reason,’ the mother-of-one said.
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11. He faces probation to up to four years in state prison for each count, with a maximum of 20 years.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels testifies during the hush money trial (Picture: Reuters)
‘I’m OK with it,’ he said, when asked about potentially serving time behind bars.
‘I don’t think the public would stand it. I’m not sure the public would stand for it.
‘I think it would be tough for the public to take, you know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.’
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