Stormy Daniels: Trump supporters who harass her 'believe that they are being patriotic'

Adult film star Stormy Daniels said she’s receiving a new wave of harassment from supporters of former President Trump who “believe that they are being patriotic” after a new documentary was released about the hush money she took for an alleged affair with the former president.

“I believe that they’re more like suicide bombers this time around, where they honestly truly believe that they are being patriotic and that I am the devil,” Daniels told the hosts of “The View” on Thursday.

Daniels said Trump’s supporters have become “more vicious” because they have “been encouraged and commended” by the former president.

Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments he made during his 2016 campaign. Prosecutors argue that the money was a reimbursement for his former fixer Michael Cohen — now an open critic of Trump — who paid Daniels to stay silent over the alleged affair.

In the documentary, Daniels claimed she took the money — paid to her to avoid speaking about the affair she allegedly had with Trump in 2006 — because she wanted to avoid having the story come out to protect her husband and daughter.

Daniels said in the film that she took the $130,000 payment because “there would be a paper trail and money trail” that linked her to Trump “so that he could not have me killed.” She said she feared for her life.

On "The View," Daniels said she received criticism when she went public with the information about Trump in 2018, but after moving, her daughter was able to attend school. Trump was indicted in March 2023 for the hush-money scandal, and Daniels said the harassment from his supporters happened “all over again.”

She said often was called a gold digger. She clarified, noting that she didn’t get paid to do the documentary or give interviews like the one on "The View."

“I didn’t get paid anything, but it cost me everything,” she said.