GoFundMe for Stormy Daniels tops $800k as she reveals threats over Trump conviction

A GoFundMe campaign for Stormy Daniels has raised more than $800,000 in the eight days since it launched in order to help the adult film star deal with the fallout of speaking out against Donald Trump.

Daniels – real name Stephanie Clifford – was the star witness at the Republican presidential candidate’s hush money trial this spring, which ended with Trump being convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in order to hide a $130,000 payment to silence her in the days before the 2016 election about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006.

Trump is set to be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan on September 18, after he was granted a delay as he seeks to overturn his conviction in in light of the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling.

In a new interview on MSNBC this week, Daniels revealed she has received numerous threats from Trump supporters since testifying against him in the Manhattan trial, including on Facebook “from people in my own community” and from strangers warning “they were going to rape everybody in my family, including my young daughter, before they killed them”.

“Trump is trying to make, I believe, trying to make an example out of me,” Daniels told Rachel Maddow.

She warned that all Americans should fear a belated second Trump administration and revealed that she is still fighting a defamation lawsuit from him that has so far cost her $500,000 in lawyers’ fees since 2018 – a total she said she currently has no prospect of being able to meet.

In response to her financial woes, Maddow mentioned the “I Stand with Stormy Daniels” crowdfunding page.

The GoFundMe was launched by the star’s former manager Dwayne Crawford in late June with the aim of raising $1m to help her to move to a more secure