Porn actress says she was threatened to keep silent about Trump affair

US porn actress Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about her alleged sexual encounter with President Donald Trump in 2006, which she has detailed in a TV interview.

In the highly-anticipated interview with CBS News on Sunday, Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford said Trump had not asked her to keep their affair secret, but said she was approached by a man in a parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada, after agreeing to sell her story for $15,000 in 2011.

“I was in a parking lot…and a guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,’” Daniels said. “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.’”  

“I was concerned for my family and their safety,” she said. "I was rattled, I remember going into the workout class and my hands were shaking so much I was afraid I was gonna drop her," she said of her daughter.

Daniels said her encounter with Trump was consensual. “This is not a ‘Me too.’ I was not a victim,” she said, referring to the hashtag used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the US.

Daniels said she was introduced to Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. The real estate mogul invited her to his hotel suite, the only time they had a sexual encounter.

The conversation "started off all about him, just talking about himself," with Trump asking if Daniels had seen his picture on the cover of a magazine, she said.

The White House has denied any sexual encounter between the president and Daniels.

PressTV-Porn actress sues Trump over 'hush agreement'

An adult film actress is suing President Trump over a "nondisclosure agreement" she signed before the 2016 election.

Trump's lawyer had arranged a $130,000 payment to Clifford a month before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual encounter, The Wall Street Journal reported last month.

A law firm representing Trump said in a court filing in March that it was seeking at least $20 million in damages from Daniels for multiple violations of the nondisclosure agreement.

Daniels’ lawyer has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles claiming Trump never signed the nondisclosure agreement, rendering it null and void.

Nearly 20 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, ranging from unwanted touching to groping to assault. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and sometimes claimed that he does not know the women. The White House has called his accusers liars.

Weeks before the presidential election last November, The Washington Post released a tape in which Trump boasted about how he sexually assaulted women because he was powerful.

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