Stephanie Clifford, AKA adult film star Stormy Daniels, accused Trump of paying her “hush money” way back after they had a brief affair — while he was married to Melania and expecting their child.

But Trump hid that payoff in his finances, calling it “legal fees.”

That’s the focus of his first criminal trial. Prosecutors allege that Trump made the payments in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

But as Trump does, he’s made a big public spectacle of his supposed innocence. He’s still claiming that the affair never happened, despite the fact that we’ve seen the canceled checks and heard her completely believable and gruesomely detailed accounts of their encounter. She even included a description of Trump’s nether regions.

And when Trump goes out in public and accuses somebody who’s accused HIM, his followers and supporters get angry.

That’s the point of saying that stuff in public.

Now, Stormy says she’s already been a victim of MAGA outrage. In a recent documentary, Daniels revealed that an intruder shot her horse with a rubber bullet in an effort to lure her outside.

Thankfully, the horse lived, but it still has marks from the wound.

I wonder if her horse was attacked because Trump, while he denied he did anything wrong, came out publicly and called her a “horseface.”

In the film, Daniels says that Trump’s former lawyer — the man Trump wrote checks to, to give her cash — immediately reached out to her after the case was filed, fearing for her safety.

Apparently Michael Cohen has some experience with the way Donald Trump works.

Coupled with the fact that her home address was leaked on the internet, she had good reason to fear. But she couldn’t stop a Trumper from shooting her precious horse. She stayed inside and did not confront them.

She’s had a number of threats against her, or at least ill wishes, on social media and by email.

On Twitter alone, she’s had people say “Hope you die, b*tch,” and “[you’ll] die and be forgotten.” She even had one person encourage her to commit suicide.

She’ll likely testify in Trump’s criminal trial.

But that’s an act of bravery on her part. She said in the documentary, “I was completely sure that I was going to die. The justice system failed me. It has absolutely failed me in every single way.”

If anything happens to her, I hope that Trump will face charges for that, too.