Stormy Daniels owes Donald Trump about $670,000. This haunts her, especially now that Trump is trying to collect. One of Trump’s lawyers just demanded that Daniels sit for a deposition about her finances and complete a form listing her assets, including those of her husband and her 13-year-old daughter. “I am not handing over any of this information or filling out these forms,” Daniels said in a message to her lawyer that she shared with me in January. “I am fully prepared to go to jail before doing this. I would rather die than put my child’s name on a single thing for Trump.”
In a way, it’s a similar dilemma to the one Trump himself faces as he struggles to raise cash for the bonds to appeal the $450-million-plus judgment against him from New York State and the $80-million-plus judgment to the journalist and writer E. Jean Carroll. Neither, so far, appears to be making much progress. Last month, Daniels’s lawyer, Clark Brewster, persuaded her to complete the form, but outright defiance on her part seems still to be a possibility.
