Donald Trump wasn’t off limits Thursday night when The Rolling Stones came to New Jersey for a massive concert.
Mick Jagger put the former president and the adult film actor he allegedly paid to keep quiet about an affair on blast as he joked with the crowd he was thankful the weather held up. There was a chance rain would ruin the event.
“I thought we were gonna get a bit of a Stormy Daniels but we’re alright,” to which the crowd laughed.
Daniels is at the center of Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
Jagger also noted earlier, during a fan-voted song choice in their set: “There’s a much bigger vote happening in November.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious — and, he says, bogus — stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign. On Monday, Trump called the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a “scam” and “witch hunt.”
The charges center on $130,000 in payments that Trump’s company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump’s behalf to keep Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the sexual encounter ever happened.
Prosecutors say the payments to Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees. Prosecutors have described it as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump’s reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women.
Trump has acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment and that it was designed to stop Daniels from going public about the alleged encounter. But Trump has previously said it had nothing to do with the campaign.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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