Stormy Daniels’ supporters raised more than $900,000 to help her after she testified in the criminal trial that led to her conviction on 34 felony counts Move to a safe house and pay off attorney fees.
The money comes from an online GoFundMe campaign started by a friend and former manager of the adult film actor, who recently appeared on MSNBC to describe how Trump’s supporters are seeking a second term as president. He harassed her through social media, including threatening to rape and murder her daughter and other family members.
“It became unsafe for her family and pets,” fundraiser organizer Dwayne Crawford wrote on the event’s page, which set a goal of $1 million. “Stormi needs help moving her family to a place where they feel safe and can live on their own terms.
“She needs assistance to keep paying the ever-increasing costs so that Trump doesn’t win with his seemingly endless wallet.”
The so-called “I Stand with Stormy Daniels” campaign — which as of Friday had raised more than $940,000 from about 17,600 donors — came after she had Trump convicted of fakery in late May Business records played a key role in the criminalization process.
Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 to keep silent about Trump’s extramarital sex with her a decade before he won the 2016 presidential election. Prosecutors said the payments to Daniels were incorrectly recorded as legal fees, and ultimately, with the help of Daniels’ testimony, prosecutors won Trump’s conviction in New York state court.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the president enjoys broad immunity from prosecution while in office, a big help for Trump as he tries to defeat criminal cases for improperly withholding classified records and attempting to subvert state power. The result was that he lost to Joe Biden.
One of the more immediate consequences of the Supreme Court’s ruling was that New York Judge Juan Mercan delayed sentencing in Trump v. Daniels. Originally scheduled for July 11, Merchant temporarily postponed the proceedings to September 18 after the former president’s legal team asked him to delay based on the immunity decision.
Meanwhile, Daniels told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that she’s been flooded with Facebook messages threatening to “rape everyone in my family before they kill them, including my young daughter.” ”.
“I lost… mostly my peace, mostly my daughter’s privacy and the time that I would never get to spend with her,” Daniels said of her involvement in the lawsuit against Trump.
She also detailed how she owed $500,000 in legal fees from a 2018 civil defamation lawsuit against Trump that she was unable to pay.
Author E Jean Carroll, who sued Trump for rape and defamation and won nearly $90 million from him, was among those who expressed support after Daniels’ interview with Maddow civil penalties. “I’d love to help!!” she wrote on The X on Tuesday night.
But one of the voices who has spoken out against Daniels is her former attorney, Michael Avenatti, who remains incarcerated for defrauding her and other clients.
In an X post on Wednesday, he dismissed Daniels’ fundraising effort as a “GoFundMe fraud” and “total bullshit,” arguing that the alleged threat did not come from Trump himself. Avenatti’s comments have also brought him critics, with some X users accusing him of seeking a pardon from Trump in case he wins a chance to return to the White House in November.
Crawford, the organizer of Daniels’ fundraiser, wrote that he was motivated to participate after he and his friends got “front row seats to the parts of this story that didn’t quite fit the clickbait headline.” .
“If we allow Stormy to lose her life, liberty or happiness after choosing to stand up to the President of the United States, we have failed at the very foundation this country is built on,” Crawford added.
