A lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress at the center of Donald Trump's hush money trial, said the former president's conviction on all 34 felony counts "hit her hard."
"I got a pretty instant report from the courthouse," Clark Brewster, her lawyer said in an interview Friday on NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports." So it hadn't hit the news yet when I told her. And she was really kind of taken aback and she got emotional."
Brewster explained: "I think it was the culmination of a lot of things — the finality of it and, you know, the worry and nervousness that she had throughout leading up to this," Brewster said.
He emphasized that Daniels did not express "happiness" about the verdict.
"It was more or less a relief that it's over, and really kind of even surprised at the verdict even though we anticipated that it could be a hung jury or probably a conviction. The finality hit her hard," Brewster said.
Daniels has typically appeared to deal with the stress and vicious attacks on her with aplomb, hot poses — and dead-pan humor, which has earned her a loyal social media following on X of more than 1.3 million fans.
But her husband, Barrett Blade, also revealed the couple's fears being at the center of the Donald Trump storm when he said last month they were considering leaving the country for their own safety if Trump was acquitted.
If it's "not guilty we gotta decide what to do. Good chance we'll probably vacate this country," he said in an interview on CNN.
"If he is found guilty she's still going to have to deal with all the hate," Blade added.
"I don't see it as a win situation either way, I know that we would like to get on with our lives, I know that she wants to move past this ... but I don't know if that ever will be," he said.
A jury in Manhattan criminal court found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to Daniels before the 2016 election to hide her allegations that she had a sexual relationship with him 10 years earlier.
