NEW YORY CITY, United States (AFP) – Porn actress Stormy Daniels will on Sunday sit for a highly-anticipated interview that could shed new light on the affair she says she had with Donald Trump a decade before his election as President.
Contrary to its usual practice, CBS has not released excerpts of the interview, which will air Sunday at 7 p.m. (2300 GMT or 7 a.m. in Manila today) on the network’s flagship “60 Minutes’’ program. Daniels has previously spoken about the affair, including in a recent post on Twitter in which she said: “Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star.’’
Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has teased the interview, posting a picture on Twitter of a digital versatile disc along with the text: “If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ how many words is this worth????? #60minutes #pleasedenyit.’’ When another Twitter user said that the disc contained a video of a lie detector test Daniels had taken, Avenatti replied: “Nope. Enjoy Sunday and the days that follow…’’ Daniels was paid $130,000 (almost R7 million) by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as part of a non-disclosure agreement that she signed shortly before the 2016 US presidential election, leading to allegations that the payment amounted to an illicit contribution to Trump’s campaign.
