Stormy Daniels has said a lot, but she didn’t say this about former President Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump is charged with falsifying business records during his 2016 presidential campaign to cover up a $130,00 hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. The payment allegedly was made to keep her from talking about a previous sexual encounter with Trump. 

When Daniels testified in the ensuing criminal trial May 7, she "spoke quickly, unspooling so many salacious details that the judge overseeing the case balked at some of the testimony, implying that it was gratuitously vulgar," The New York Times reported. 

That same day, a statement attributed to Daniels appeared on Threads: "I had no idea if he penetrated me — and I am a professional, he just kept yelling, I’m yuge! I’m the greatest, and then he made gurgling sounds and fell asleep. Hey, it was a job and the check cleared." 

But this isn’t a real quote from Daniels.

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stated on April 18, 2024 in a Threads post

Former President Donald Trump didn’t attend daughter Ivanka Trump’s graduation.

In March, Daniels said in an X post that the statement was fake. 

"Is this for real?" someone said on X, sharing an image of Daniels from a 2018 "60 Minutes" interview in which she described her alleged affair with Trump. The text over the image is the same that appears in the May 7 Threads post.

"No," Daniels replied. 

We rate claims that Daniels said this — much less that she just said it on the stand during Trump’s New York criminal trial — False.