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stated on April 22, 2024 in a Threads post:

Photo shows Stormy Daniels wearing a mushroom-patterned dress to court April 22.

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By Ciara O'Rourke
April 24, 2024

Old altered photo of Stormy Daniels doesn’t show her arriving at Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

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  • This photo was altered. The original shows adult film actor Stormy Daniels arriving at a TV studio in 2018.

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A recent Threads post purports to show adult film actor Stormy Daniels striding into the courthouse April 22 for former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial.

Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to Daniels, who has said she had an affair with the former president. 

In the Threads post’s image, Daniels appears to wear a blue dress with a mushroom pattern. 

“Stormy Daniels chose to wear this dress to court today,” the April 22 Threads post said. “I can’t imagine why.” 

But this image was altered, and it doesn’t show Daniels en route to the courtroom — or in  2024.

This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)

A reverse-image search of the photo led us to Reuters photographs that show Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, arriving in April 2018 at ABC studios in New York to appear on the talk show “The View.”

The dress she wore then  was blue, but there were no mushrooms on it. 

Daniels is expected to take the stand as a witness in Trump’s criminal trial, but she hasn’t yet. 

We rate this post False.

Our Sources

Threads post, April 22, 2024

PolitiFact, A fact-checker’s guide to Trump’s first criminal trial: business records, hush money and a gag order, April 11, 2024

Reuters photos of Stormy Daniels, April 17, 2018

Reuters, Who are the Trump trial witnesses in the hush money case?, April 22, 2024

 

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