{"id":25728,"date":"2023-04-01T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25728"},"modified":"2023-04-01T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:20:16","slug":"this-pssy-grabbed-back-stormy-daniels-speaks-out-after-trump-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/this-pssy-grabbed-back-stormy-daniels-speaks-out-after-trump-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This P*ssy Grabbed Back’: Stormy Daniels Speaks Out After Trump Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stormy Daniels speaks during a Stormy Daniels Day event held by the city of West Hollywood, California on May 23, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: City of West Hollywood\/flickr\/cc)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The porn star said she is unafraid of facing the former president in court: “I’ve seen him naked. There’s no way he could be scarier with his clothes on.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mar 31, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stormy Daniels reacted Friday to the criminal indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump with a play on his infamous taped remarks seemingly confessing to sexually assaulting women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This pussy grabbed back,” Daniels\u2014the porn star paid $130,000 by Trump fixer Michael Cohen in return for silence about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the future president\u2014told The<\/em>Times of London <\/em>in a paywalled article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One month before the 2016 presidential election, a 2005 recording of Trump telling “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush that “when you’re a star,” women let you “do anything” to them,” including “grab ’em by the pussy” surfaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than two dozen women and a 13-year-old girl have accused<\/a> Trump\u2014a 2024 Republican presidential candidate\u2014of sexual misconduct, including assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump is no longer untouchable,” Daniels continued in the interview. “A person in power is not exempt from the law. And no matter what your job is, or what your bank account says, you’re held accountable for the things you’ve said and done, and justice is served.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniels called Trump’s indictment\u2014which reportedly<\/a> involves over 30 as-of-yet unspecified counts stemming from the $130,000 payment\u2014a “vindication.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But it’s bittersweet,” she added. “He’s done so much worse that he should have been taken down [for] before. I am fully aware of the insanity of it being a porn star. But it’s also poetic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is both the first president to be impeached twice and the first ex-president to face criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniels said she learned about the indictment while she was out riding her horse, whose name is Redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There’s something really ironic and hilarious that I got the news about the indictment while I was sitting on a horse named Redemption,” she said, adding that she used some of the $130,000 hush money payment to buy a horse trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniels said the indictment will “divide people” and questioned whether Trump would ultimately be held accountable, noting that he has “already gotten away with inciting a riot.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Whatever the outcome is, it’s going to cause violence, and there’s going to be injuries and death,” Daniels warned. “There’s the potential for a lot of good to come from this. But either way, a lot of bad is going to come from it, too.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Daniels says she’s undaunted by the prospect of facing Trump in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’ve seen him naked,” she explained. “There’s no way he could be scarier with his clothes on.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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