White House drawn into legal battle over Stormy Daniels
Source: The HILL
The White House is being pulled into the legal fight between President Trumps personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the adult-film actress who claims to have had an extramarital affair with the president in 2006.
The White House denies that Trump had a relationship with Stormy Daniels, who real name is Stephanie Clifford.
But press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday also said the president recently won an arbitration ruling against Daniels a statement that effectively tied Trump to the $130,000 payment made by his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep Daniels quiet.
The Daniels saga is fraught for Trump. The affair allegedly occurred around the time now-first lady Melania Trump was pregnant with Barron Trump. Meanwhile, Cohen Trumps self-described fixer sought to silence Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election by creating aliases and a shell company to pay her off.
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Gothmog
(145,046 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,113 posts)Was a check written in 2006?
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)To keep Stormy quiet from taking her story public right before the election.
bucolic_frolic
(43,113 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)have his "tit caught in the wringer" to use a republican turn-of-phrase.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
getagrip_already
(14,674 posts)or so the rumor goes. Just one of the things she will be selling when/if the court ok's it.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)of course, they way they horrors for Trump are adding up, he's going to need a lot more than 1/day
lark
(23,078 posts)This is definitely a donation to drumpfs campaign and Cohen and drumpf are going down for this.
kimbutgar
(21,103 posts)Announcement about Kim of NK. The press likes the sex part over diplomacy. Boring yawn to them. It will not go away Twitler.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... that Lawrence O'Donnell read off a legal letter on his show the other night?