Adult film star Stormy Daniels has said she expects to testify in Donald Trump's upcoming criminal trial in New York.
Former US president Trump, who is expected to clinch his party’s nomination for the 2024 White House Race, is facing state charges over ‘hush money’ claims by participating in a scheme to falsify business records to cover up payments to Ms Daniels.
The trial is scheduled to start on March 25 in Manhattan.
Speaking on her podcast, the adult content performer, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said: "Obviously, things have been next-level crazy, since I am set to testify in, at this point in time, March — obviously, that can change any moment — in the hush money case."
Manhattan’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is overseeing the prosecution, has declined to comment on whether Ms Daniels will be called to testify.
Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case over the alleged $130,000 payment to Daniels.
He has denied a relationship with her, and has called the prosecution “political Persecution and election interference at the highest level in history”.
The case is just one of a series of legal troubles plaguing the Republican front-runner as he seeks another shot at the presidency.
Federal prosecutors have accused him of taking highly sensitive national security documents when he left the White House in January 2021, while he has also been charged with election interference in Georgia over a well-publicised call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, urging him to “find” 11,780 votes to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory.
In addition, the Justice Department has charged him with election interference offences over the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection and the electoral college count.
The litany of cases against Trump does not appear to have impeded his standing with party faithful, scoring a record win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
It was the first ballot to see Republican voters choose their preferred candidate to run against Joe Biden in November.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finished a distant second, just ahead of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who is battling with Mr DeSantis to stay in the race.
