❝ Trump’s lawyer delivered $130,000 in hush money to porn star, Stormy Daniels, a few weeks before the 2016 election. The money was handed over to keep the lid on an “encounter” between the pornista and Trump in 2006. That was the year after his marriage to Melania in 2005.
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Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star’s Silence
Agreement just before election required woman to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, people familiar with the matter say (Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2018 3:13 p.m. ET) https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-arranged-130-000-payment-for-adult-film-stars-silence-1515787678
POLITICO’s 2009 interview with Stormy Daniels. (while she was considering challenging incumbent David Vitter for the 2010 Senate election in her native Louisiana) https://www.politico.com/video/2018/01/12/politicos-2009-interview-with-stormy-daniels-064719
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy_Daniels
Steve Bannon suggests Trump’s lawyer ‘took care’ of ‘a hundred’ women during the presidential campaign https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/01/13/steve-bannon-suggests-trumps-lawyer-took-care-of-a-hundred-women-during-the-presidential-campaign/23332532/
“Trump Bragged That He Likes To Go To Russia Because The Women ‘Have No Morals’”(AUDIO) http://addictinginfo.org/2017/01/12/trump-bragged-that-he-likes-to-go-to-russia-because-the-women-have-no-morals-audio/ [exchange from “The Howard Stern Show” in 2001]
A 29 year-old woman who Donald Trump called ‘the best piece of tail’ is among the White House best paid staffers at $179,700. http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/16/hope-hicks-kellyanne-conway-white-houses-best-paid-workers-179700-7232722/ Hope Hicks earns the enormous amount for her role as ‘assistant to the president and director of strategic communications’, according to an official White House salary list. Her salary is the largest paid to anyone working for President Trump, and matches that paid to assistant and senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, 50.
‘Fire and Fury’ author Michael Wolff: Trump may be having extramarital affair in White House http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michael-wolff-claims-trump-affair-white-house-article-1.3767521
Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ to Become TV Series https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/michael-wolffs-fire-fury-become-tv-series-1075346
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is ripping online rumors suggesting she’s having an affair with President Trump as “disgusting” and “offensive” — and typical of the treatment of women in powerful positions. In an interview with Politico, Haley said the rumors instigated by author Micheal Wolff are “absolutely not true.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/26/nikki-haley-trump-foreign-policy-370851
“Alleged Trump mistress Stormy Daniels to sit down with Jimmy Kimmel” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/01/26/alleged-trump-mistress-stormy-daniels-to-sit-down-with-jimmy-kimmel/ “Stormy Daniels, the woman whose claims about having a relationship with Donald Trump have surfaced in recent weeks, will be on Kimmel’s show, appropriately, on the night her alleged former paramour gives his first State of the Union address to Congress. Kimmel promoted the “get” in a tweet.”
“Eight Totally Legitimate Reasons Trump Paid Stormy Daniels $130,000” https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/eight-totally-legitimate-reasons-trump-paid-stormy-daniels-130000
“Mark Hamill and Rian Johnson Respond to Stormy Daniels About ‘Last Jedi'” https://www.inverse.com/article/40611-star-wars-last-jedi-mark-hamill-rian-johnson-stormy-daniels
Hope Hicks is resigning from the White House (CNN 5:05 PM ET, Wed February 28, 2018) https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/hope-hicks-white-house/index.html “One of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving and closest aides, Hicks’s resignation comes a day after she spent the day testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. The New York Times first reported her departure. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/hope-hicks-resign-communications-director.html “There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump. I wish the President and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country,” Hicks said in a written statement. The President praised her as “outstanding.”
“Stormy Daniels, star of the latest Trump sideshow, took her act to a strip club. It was a scene.”(Washington Post) “Year two of the Trump presidency began here overnight much like year one had ended: with his alleged ex-mistress smashing people’s faces into her bare chest at a strip club between an airport and a cemetery. Congress can’t pass a budget or figure out immigration policy. The administration is talking about war with North Korea. And down in Florida, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, his supporters were toasting his first year.
A normal Saturday at the Trophy Club brings in 100 to 150 people — and for a while on Saturday it seemed at least double that. “Making America Horny Again,” said a big sign outside, a play on Trump’s campaign slogan. Inside there was patriotic bunting on the brass railings. Red, white and blue balloons floated above each sticky table.”
Watchdog group files complaint against Trump campaign over reported payout to Stormy Daniels (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/01/22/watchdog-group-files-complaint-against-trump-campaign-over-reported-payout-to-stormy-daniels/?utm_term=.a979839edfa0 In a pair of federal complaints, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, argued that the settlement amounted to an unreported in-kind contribution to Trump’s campaign. The group called on the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to investigate.
“First lady’s rep blasts ‘false’ reports about Melania Trump” (Washington Post 1.26.18) https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrities/first-ladys-rep-blasts-false-reports-about-melania-trump/2018/01/26/8a7301b4-030a-11e8-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html “The tabloid Daily Mail reported Friday that Mrs. Trump has spent a number of nights at a D.C. hotel in the wake of reports of allegations by adult film star Stormy Daniels that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, shortly after he married Melania.”
“Melania Trump, Out of Sight Since Report of Husband’s Infidelity, to Attend State of the Union” (New York Times 1/29/18) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/politics/melania-trump-state-of-the-union.html
“How Stormy Daniels might be outsmarting Trump by denying an affair” (Washington Post 1/31/18) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/31/how-stormy-daniels-might-be-outsmarting-trump-by-denying-an-affair/?utm_term=.ba45bbe92daa
“Stormy Daniels Has a ‘Monica Lewinsky Dress’ from Alleged Donald Trump Affair, Will Test It for DNA” https://theblast.com/stormy-daniels-dress-donald-trump-dna/
“Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity : One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.” (The New Yorker) https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-a-playboy-model-and-a-system-for-concealing-infidelity-national-enquirer-karen-mcdougal “On November 4, 2016, four days before the election, the Wall Street Journal reported that American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, had paid a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for exclusive rights to McDougal’s story, which it never ran. Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call “catch and kill.” This is a favorite tactic of the C.E.O. and chairman of A.M.I., David Pecker, who describes the President as “a personal friend.”
Trump denies the affair.
According to the Wall Street Journal, two months after negotiating former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s $150,000 deal with the publisher of the National Enquirer (American Media, who’s chairman is personal friends with Trump), attorney Keith M. Davidson negotiated porn star Stormy Daniels’ nondisclosure agreement with Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen – who is now claiming he “facilitated” a $130,000 payment to Daniels using his personal money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/16/the-latest-alleged-trump-affair-cover-up-is-a-pretty-damningly-familiar-tale/?utm_term=.3a0b5ce08675
“David Pecker is stepping down as CEO of the National Enquirer’s parent, ending a reign that saw the company entangled in a campaign-finance scandal that sent President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer to jail.” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/22/david-pecker-out-as-ceo-of-national-enquirer-parent-company.html
“Under Pecker, the National Enquirer for years buried potentially embarrassing stories about Trump and other favored celebrities by buying the rights to them and never publishing. The practice was known as “catch-and-kill.”
The Associated Press reported Pecker kept a safe in the Enquirer’s office that held documents on buried stories, including those involving Trump.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan agreed in 2018 not to prosecute American Media in exchange for its cooperation in a campaign finance investigation. That probe eventually led to a three-year prison term for Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Cohen is completing the last two years of a three-year prison sentence at home after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress.”
National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was granted immunity https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/david-pecker-immunity-cohen/index.html
“Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret” https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/days-before-the-election-stormy-daniels-threatened-to-cancel-deal-to-keep-alleged-affair-with-trump-secret/2018/03/02/770a446a-1d9b-11e8-8a2c-1a6665f59e95_story.html?utm_term=.b214bbddd4f2 “The timing of the Oct. 27 payment, 13 days after the initial deadline and just 12 days before the election, could be significant. Two complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission argue that the payment was intended to influence the Nov. 8 election and violated campaign finance law because it was not reported as an in-kind donation. …Some campaign-finance experts see parallels to the case of former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), who was indicted by federal authorities in 2011 on charges that he used money from wealthy donors to hide an extramarital affair. The jury acquitted him on one charge and deadlocked on five other counts. Two other FEC complaints focus on a reported $150,000 payment in August 2016 by American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who told the New Yorker that she had a nine-month affair with Trump.
The FEC may launch an official investigation only if all four current commissioners — two Republicans, a Democrat and an independent — agree to do so.”
CNN: Trump upset with Sarah Sanders over handling of Stormy Daniels questions http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377346-cnn-trump-upset-with-sarah-sanders-over-handling-of-stormy-daniels Sanders at Wednesday’s press briefing said that an arbitration process had gone in the president’s favor. By describing the president as being involved in the arbitration process, Sanders put Trump closer to the legal process.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Wednesday that she was not aware of whether Mr. Trump knows of the $130,000 payment to Clifford, and said “the president has denied the allegations against him, and again, this case has already been won in arbitration.” “Stormy Daniels lawyer says WH claims that Trump won arbitration are “ludicrous” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/live-white-house-briefing-march-7-2018-live-stream/
“Lawrence O’Donnell Presses Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer on ‘Images’ of Alleged Trump Tryst” https://www.mediaite.com/online/lawrence-odonnell-presses-stormy-daniels-lawyer-on-images-of-alleged-trump-tryst/ O’Donnell also brought up that the agreement prohibits “all private information relating to or pertaining to Donald Trump, including… paternity information.”
“Colbert Braces for Stormy Daniels to Release Trump’s “Penis Portraits” https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-lawsuit-michael-cohen-colbert-seth-meyers In the “hush agreement,” as detailed in the lawsuit, Daniels is said to have “confidential information” about Trump, including “information, certain still images and/or text messages.”
As ‘60 Minutes’ Prepares Stormy Daniels Interview, Lawyers Wrangle https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/business/60-minutes-stormy-daniels.html
See also: “Stormy Daniels: Timeline of a Trump Scandal” (video) https://nyti.ms/2Gc5uCy
“Second Trump Attorney Joins Stormy Daniels Case, Which Ostensibly Doesn’t Involve Him” http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/new-trump-lawyer-joins-stormy-case-he-denies-knowledge-of.html
Documents marked “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL PROCEEDING” for the first time tie President Donald Trump’s flagship holding company to the continuing effort to silence a former adult-film actress who says she had an affair with Trump. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-company-lawyer-was-part-of-push-to-hush-stormy-daniels-documents-show-2018-03-15
“Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Says More Women Are Exploring Legal Cases Against President Trump” https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/stormy-daniels-lawyer-says-more-women-are-exploring-legal?bftwnews&utm_term=.xdaXk7LKj#.ake1GWY5V
“Stormy Daniels’ Explosive Full Interview on Donald Trump Affair: “I Can Describe His Junk Perfectly” (Feb 14, 2018) http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788
“Stormy Daniels’s lawyer predicted President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, would “fold like a cheap deck of cards” after the FBI raided Cohen’s office and home on Monday.” http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382392-stormy-daniels-lawyer-predicts-trump-lawyer-will-fold-like-a-cheap “…the FBI raided the office [also home and apartment] of Cohen and seized emails, tax documents and records related to his payment to Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. The New York Times reported that Daniels is just one of “many topics” being looked at by the FBI, and The Washington Post said Cohen is under investigation for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations. Other documents seized by the FBI include business records and communications between Cohen and Trump, but the raid does not appear to be directly connected to Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to the Times.”
“A Top GOP Official Admitted He Had An Affair With A Playboy Model And Gave Her Money To Terminate Her Pregnancy – And Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, reportedly negotiated the million dollar payoff.” https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/elliott-broidy-michael-cohen-payment-playboy-playmate?utm_term=.ol1ZVnzrW#.puRqkZ54b
“Feds: Michael Cohen is barely even a lawyer” (NY Post 4/13/18) https://nypost.com/2018/04/13/feds-michael-cohen-is-barely-even-a-lawyer/
“Trump defends payment to Stormy Daniels after Giuliani revelation” http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385974-trump-defends-payment-to-stormy-daniels-after-giuliani-revelation Former New York City mayor Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani, who joined President Trump’s legal team last week, told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity that the president reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged affair with the president.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley, seemingly caught unprepared on Fox News immediately after Giuliani’s remarks, deferred questions about Trump’s reimbursements to the president’s legal team: “I am not an attorney. I just work at the White House.”
(May 16, 2018) “President Trump formally disclosed Wednesday that he paid his attorney as much as $250,000 as reimbursements for expenses — which included a $130,000 payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had a sexual encounter with him. The disclosure came in his annual financial disclosure report [see link] to the Office of Government Ethics.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-ethics-form-discloses-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-payment/615955002/ Trump had previously denied knowing where Cohen received the money to make the payment. “You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You’ll have to ask Michael,” he told reporters on Air Force One last month.”
Adult film star Stormy Daniels was scheduled to meet Monday with federal prosecutors probing the activities of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, but prosecutors canceled the session after word leaked to the media, Daniels’ attorney said Sunday night.
Daniels was expected to sit down with attorneys from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which oversaw raids in April that seized millions of paper and electronic records from Cohen’s home, office and hotel room. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/24/stormy-daniels-prosecutors-cohen-667932
Michael Avenatti’s email to the federal prosecutors after their cancellation of the scheduled meeting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nt8aweb85c5pzsg/dojemail.pdf?dl=0
…could it be that Cohen is cutting a deal with the Feds and they want to stay focused on that?
“Stormy Daniels Says in TV Interview That she has More Damning Evidence Which Could Bring Down Trump” (Newsweek 9/8/18) https://www.newsweek.com/stormy-daniels-interview-michael-cohen-guilty-best-day-life-1112597
“President Trump has been ordered by a California court to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ $44,100 for her legal fees, after she sued the president over a non-disclosure agreement issued to keep her quiet about their previous affair.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Broadbelt determined that Daniels won her case against Trump regarding the agreement, which she signed 11 days prior to the 2016 presidential election – and that Trump was required to pay her fees.
Former attorney to the president, Michael Cohen approached Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, and asked her to sign the NDA. He paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about an affair the two had between 2006 and 2007.” (Fox News) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-44100-in-stormy-daniels-legal-fees
“Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit” (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/stormy-daniels-trump-judge-order/index.html
“In his decision this week, Judge Robert Broadbelt III ruled that Clifford was entitled to legal fees, finding her the “prevailing party” under California law, despite the case having been dismissed.
Broadbelt also rejected an argument by Trump’s attorneys that the President was not liable for the fees because he had not signed the NDA.
In his decision, Broadbelt wrote that since Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Clifford, and since the Trump legal team had earlier argued that a defamation suit filed against the President by Clifford should be handled by an arbitrator per the NDA, the President was effectively a party to the agreement.