Stormy Daniels has never been cowed. And now, she is vindicated | Zoe Williams

What she has been through would sink most people. But the woman at the white-hot epicentre of Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions was always going to hold her nerve

In the opening scene of Stormy, the documentary about Stormy Daniels' life, she says: I have just been tormented for the last five years or so. And here I am, I'm still here." Probably the worst of the torment has been from Donald Trump's supporters, though they've never got together to explain what they're angry about. Is it that Daniels claims she had sex with Trump, in 2006? That she accepted $130,000 to keep quiet about it? Surely, if he's the richest and most virile man America ever produced, you'd think that was no big deal for him, and nice for her?

Instead, as she described on the stand, giving evidence against Trump, the Maga lot have made her life a misery. Death threats layered with lurid threats of sexual violence, enough that she was constantly worried for the safety of her family, have poured in since 2018, when the Wall Street Journal first broke the story.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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