Stormy Daniels: Trump doesn't deserve prison for hush money

Stormy Daniels says Donald Trump does not deserve to be jailed over the payment made to her which landed him in court this week on criminal charges.

"I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration," the adult film actress told Piers Morgan in her first interview since the hearing.

The former US president pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to 34 counts of falsifying business records.

The felony charges carry a maximum four-year jail sentence.

Mr Trump's lawyer paid $130,000 to Ms Daniels before the 2016 election to buy her silence as she was seeking to go public over an alleged affair.

Prosecutors say the way the lawyer was subsequently reimbursed by Mr Trump while he was president amounted to tax deception, because the accounts described the payments as legal expenses.