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"I
don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of
incarceration. I feel like the other things that he has done, if
he is found guilty, absolutely," Daniels, 44, said in an
interview with Fox Nation's Piers Morgan to be broadcast on
Thursday.
Trump was charged in New York on Tuesday with 34 felony counts
of falsifying business records over allegations he orchestrated
hush-money payments to Daniels and former Playboy model Karen
McDougal before the 2016 U.S. election to suppress publication
of their alleged sexual encounters with him.
Trump, 76, also faces criminal investigations in Washington for
trying to overturn his 2020 election loss and mishandling
classified documents, and a separate criminal probe in Georgia
about his attempt to overturn his defeat in that state.
Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first sitting or
former U.S. president to face criminal charges, of trying to
conceal a violation of election laws during his successful 2016
campaign.
Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican
nomination in 2024, denies having an affair with Daniels but has
acknowledged the payment.
The next hearing in the case is set for Dec. 4. Legal experts
said a trial may not even get under way for a year, and that
indictment or even a conviction would not legally prevent Trump
from running for president.
Daniels told Morgan that if the case goes to trial, she would
like to testify.
"I have nothing to hide. I'm the only one that has been telling
the truth," she said.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; Editing by Andy Sullivan and
Daniel Wallis)
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