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highplainsdem

(48,957 posts)
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 10:00 PM Mar 2018

Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump

Source: WaPo

Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret

The 2016 election was less than a month away, and Donald Trump’s attorney had blown the deadline for paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the future president.

In an Oct. 17 email, an attorney for Daniels — a porn star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — threatened to cancel the nondisclosure agreement by the end of the day.

That very morning, Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, had created a limited liability company, public records show, that ultimately would serve as a vehicle for Daniels’s payoff. But the money had not arrived. A second email to Cohen, a short time after the first, said Daniels was calling the deal off.

“Please be advised that my client deems her settlement agreement canceled and void,” Daniels’s lawyer, Keith Davidson, wrote in the email, which The Washington Post obtained.

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Read more: 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



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Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2018 OP
Ted Lieu tweet about this story: highplainsdem Mar 2018 #1
He was blackmailed. How many times has trump been blackmailed? The_Casual_Observer Mar 2018 #2

highplainsdem

(48,957 posts)
1. Ted Lieu tweet about this story:
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 10:25 PM
Mar 2018





Looks more and more like there was coordination with @realDonaldTrump campaign for Trump lawyer's $130k payment to Stormy Daniels. If there was any coordination, the payment violates federal election law & is a felony. That's why @RepKathleenRice & I asked @FBI to investigate.
 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
2. He was blackmailed. How many times has trump been blackmailed?
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 10:29 PM
Mar 2018

Folks, this singular asshole does shit that he gets blackmailed for doing. What sort of idiot would still support this piece of shit?

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