• Stormy Daniels says Melania should leave former president Donald Trump.
  • Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts related to a hush-money payment to Daniels.
  • Daniels said Trump should go to prison or become a "volunteer punching bag at a women's shelter."

Melania Trump should leave Donald Trump, said Stormy Daniels, breaking the media silence she had held since Trump was convicted on Thursday.

"I don't know what their agreement may or may not be, but Melania needs to leave him. Not because of what he did with me or other women but because he is a convicted felon," the adult film star said in an interview with The Mirror published over the weekend.

On Thursday, the former president was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to Daniels, who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, didn't mince her words about Trump in the interview.

"It's been proven he is abusive, he was found liable for sexual assault and tax fraud and is now a criminal," Daniels told The Mirror. "He's neither Teflon Don nor Teflon Con anymore."

Representatives for Trump didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

While Trump has appeared defiant in the face of his growing legal problems, staffers say he is often afraid of Melania's reactions to them.

When Trump's infamous "Access Hollywood" tape was released in 2016, he took two hours before finally deciding to see her, per an excerpt from The Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan's book on Melania, "The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump."

In November 2022, Trump's former aide Kellyanne Conway said in a testimony to the House panel investigating the Capitol riot that Trump only fears Melania.

"He reserves — he listens to many of us, but he reserves fear for one person, Melania Trump," Conway said.

The former president told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday that the Manhattan trial had taken a toll on Melania.

"She's fine, but I think it's very hard for her. I mean, she's fine, but she has to read all this crap," Trump said.

Thursday's conviction makes Trump the first former American president to become a felon.

Trump could face a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison, though legal experts say he is unlikely to spend any time behind bars.

"I think he should be sentenced to jail and some community service working for the less fortunate, or being the volunteer punching bag at a women's shelter," Daniels told The Mirror.

Trump's recent conviction doesn't seem to have dampened his appeal to his supporters, who continue to view him as the GOP's best shot at retaking the White House in November.

In fact, the Trump campaign's fundraising page crashed less than an hour after he was convicted on Thursday. The page was restored about half an hour later.

"The American people see through Crooked Joe Biden's rigged show trial. So many Americans were moved to donate to President Trump's campaign that the WinRed pages went down," Trump's campaign team said in a post on X.

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