10 Things Donald Trump Has Said About Stormy Daniels Over the Years

In 2018, Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had no idea about Stormy Daniels and the alleged $130,000 hush payment his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to the adult film star.

"Well, you'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. And you'll have to ask Michael Cohen," he said when asked about the allegations.

Daniels told 60 Minutes that a man threatened her and her baby while keeping her silence on her affair with Trump. She and her lawyer released the composite sketch of the man in question, which got the former president's attention.

"A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!" Trump tweeted.

The same tweet pushed Daniels to sue him for defamation.

Rudolph Giuliani, a former lawyer for Trump, sat for an interview with The New York Times to share more details about the hush money following his interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. After he said the businessman repaid Cohen for the payment to Daniels, Trump dropped a series of tweets to deny the claims.

"Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth," he wrote.

Trump added, "In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair, despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [role] in this transaction."

After Cohen pleaded guilty to the federal charges, Trump shared more details about the hush payment during his interview with Fox & Friends.

"[The payments] came from me," he said. "And I tweeted about it. But they did not come out of the campaign."

In another January 2023 Truth Social post, Trump denied the affair again and called the case "the greatest witch hunt of all time." He added that he won big money because of Daniels' claims.

"With murders and violent crime surging like never before in New York City, the Radical Left Manhattan D.A., Alvin Bragg, just leaked to the Fake News Media that they are still going after the Stormy 'Horseface' Daniels Bull….!" his post read.

Trump blasted Daniels again in his March 2023 video on Truth Social, accusing her of "extortion."

"Whether it's the Mar-a-Lago raid, or the 'Unselect Committee' hoax, the perfect Georgia phone call — it was absolutely perfect — or the Stormy' horse face' Daniels extortion plot, they're all sick, and it's fake news," Trump said. "Our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them and they know it very strongly."

Trump uploaded a copy of Daniels' official statement in which she denied their affair.

"Look what was just found! Will the fake news report it?" he captioned the Truth Social post on April 10.