Daniels’ husband, Barrett Blade, told CNN he doesn’t believe her “situation will get better” regardless of the verdict in Trump’s criminal trial
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Barrett Blade and Stormy Daniels attend the 2024 Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas in January
Stormy Daniels and her husband Barrett Blade may not stick around to see what happens if Donald Trump is acquitted in his Manhattan criminal trial.
Discussing the backlash Daniels received from Trump supporters during the trial – during which she testified about her alleged affair with Trump – Blade told CNN on Tuesday, May 14, that he was unsure how they could move forward.
“Either way, I don’t think it’s going to get any better for her,” Blade said, noting that he believed the former adult film star would face hostility with or without a jury verdict.
“I think if (the verdict) is not guilty, we have to decide what to do,” he added. “Good chance we will probably leave this country.”
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Blade went on to say in the interview that he did not see the outcome of the trial as a “win-win situation” for Daniels, who has been a lightning rod for Republican anger since she came forward with her allegations against Trump.
“I know we would like to get on with our lives,” he explained. “I know she wants to forget about it. We just want to do what I think normal people do in some respects, but I don’t know if it’ll ever happen, you know, and that breaks my heart.”
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Former President Donald Trump sits in a courtroom at the beginning of his criminal trial in Manhattan, April 15, 2024.
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records allegedly to conceal hush money paid to Daniels and defraud voters before the 2016 election.
Prosecutors argued that Trump covered up a $130,000 payment to Daniels a month before the election to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter they had years earlier. Trump has repeatedly denied the scandal.
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Last week, Daniels testified in court where she alleged that in 2006, Trump invited her to dinner at his penthouse hotel room in Nevada. She said she went to the toilet and when she came out she found him in his boxers. She alleged that they had sex and that he did not wear a condom during this encounter.
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The former president was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last spring, becoming the first sitting or former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges. Since then, he has faced three additional indictments – two of them at the federal level – although none of those cases have yet gone to trial.
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