Not surprisingly, we didn’t learn anything at all from Stormy Daniels’ appearance with Jimmy Kimmel last night. In fact, things got even more confusing as she played “coy” on nearly every question and suggested that the letter flying around this week that denied an affair with Donald Trump was forged:
Stormy Daniels basically confirms on Kimmel’s show that this statement denying her Trump affair is fake — she says the signature isn’t hers.
“I do not know where it came from.” https://t.co/khOYOkvre9
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 31, 2018
Stormy Daniels plays coy with Kimmel then suggests that the denial posted today saying she didn’t have an affair with Trump was NOT from her. “I do not know where it came from.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 31, 2018
Stormy Daniels is not answering questions clearly, including whether she had the affair with Trump, signed an NDA and whether her comments in the magazine profile seven years ago were true. “Define true,” she says
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 31, 2018
In summary: No confirmation, but no denial either:
Ultimately: No denial of an affair
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 31, 2018
But she did allude to Trump preventing her from speaking in this promo where Kimmel asked her to show the audience on the puppet what Trump did to her and she held up a puppet of her own that had its mouth taped shut:
Nothing feels more natural than watching the #SOTU with @StormyDaniels pic.twitter.com/yqvgN3wF58
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 31, 2018
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Here’s the entire clip:
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/958614579663155203
FWIW, bot the the Washington Post and BuzzFeed are reporting that the letter was in fact signed by Daniels and in the presence of her attorney:
(The Washington Post had confirmed the authenticity of the signed statement with Daniels’s representative, Gina Rodriguez, earlier in the evening. Reached after the Kimmel interview aired, Rodriquez noted that Daniels had “not answered any of the questions directly” and that the porn star had definitely signed the document that afternoon in front of her and Daniels’s lawyer.)
NEW: Lawyer for Stormy Daniels tells me she signed the statement today, in front of him and her PR rep. “Stormy did indeed sign both denials. … I thought stormy did a fantastic job on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. She was having fun on Kimmel and being her normal playful self.”
— Anthony Cormier (@a_cormier_) January 31, 2018
As for Kimmel’s interview, he is under fire for how he treated Daniels:
This Jimmy Kimmel interview with Stormy Daniels is remarkably sexist and gross
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) January 31, 2018
This is like 'Man Show'-era Jimmy Kimmel and it's not good
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) January 31, 2018
You mean like this bit where Kimmel tried to get Daniels to describe President Trump’s, well, you know, with carrots even though she was clearly uncomfortable throughout?
S.E. Cupp criticized him as well after Kimmel brought her up in his monologue:
Coming from someone who used to ask women to “put your mouth on it” to guess what was in your pants, @jimmykimmel, your “Put that in your SE Cupp and smoke it” line is a real tour de force. Congrats on the hard-hitting Stormy Daniels interview. You’re a real champion of women.
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) January 31, 2018
The answer is yes. Because it’s best to defend Hillary’s discrediting of Bill’s accusers with a porn star interview and a dumb swipe at a conservative woman for bringing it up. https://t.co/9NwUSWs10R
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) January 31, 2018
Cupp later sent this statement to Mediaite:
“I pointed out that Jimmy Kimmel chose to give Stormy Daniels a platform after the State of the Union. How easy. I suggested, in this MeToo moment, that giving Monica Lewinsky or Clinton’s other accusers an equal platform might have actually been more impactful, given Democrats unwillingness to reckon with their own skeletons. Kimmel fell for the Democrats playbook, to again turn the table on the accusers and the Conservative women who dared bring them up. You’re so brave, Jimmy.”
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 30, 2018
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