Trump’s Lawyer Pays Porn Star
Photo Credit – Stormy Daniels at the 2007 Grammy Awards. (Matt Sayles/AP)
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has admitted to personally paying porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 of his own money.
Cohen had denied that Donald Trump or Trump’s campaign had made any payments to the porn star. Cohen’s admission did not come with an explanation as to why he paid the actress the money leaving only the woman’s previous account of a sexual fling at a golf tournament as a reasonable explanation.
All and all there isn’t a lot of mystery here, it looks like Trump had a fling with a porn star before he had political aspirations. Trump’s chances to become president become very real shortly before election day, and his lawyer goes out to clean up any potential messes that could pop up and derail the election. Cohen pays Daniels/Clifford the money to keep quiet, which she does long enough for Trump to get elected and not piss off the evangelicals. It comes out a year into the presidency, but no one truly cares, Daniels/Clifford gets an uptick in Google searches, and Cohen has to explain to his wife (if he’s married) why he paid a porn star off with $130,000 for no apparent reason.
Just another day in the life of Teflon Don.
A longtime personal attorney for President Trump said Tuesday that he paid $130,000 to an adult-film star who had told people she had an affair with Trump a decade before he won the presidency.
Michael Cohen, who had previously dismissed stories about the payment, said he paid Stormy Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — using his own money, rather than involving the Trump Organization or the Trump presidential campaign. His comments came after a watchdog group argued that the payout should be viewed as an unreported campaign expense, which Cohen denied.
“I am Mr. Trump’s longtime special counsel and I have proudly served in that role for more than a decade,” Cohen said Tuesday night in a statement first reported by the New York Times. “In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford. Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.”
In his statement, Cohen did not say why he made a payment to Daniels or whether Trump reimbursed him or knew about the payment. He did not respond to follow-up questions about these topics.
Cohen, who has called himself the “fix-it guy” for Trump, had pushed back against the suggestion of a payout to Daniels ever since the Wall Street Journal first reported it last month. In response to that story, Cohen waved away “rumors” that he said “have circulated time and again since 2011,” and he also issued a statement bearing Daniels’s signature denying that she “received hush money from Donald Trump.”
Since that time, Daniels’s signature also appeared on another statement saying she never had an affair with Trump, though in recent public appearances, she has avoided explicitly denying an affair or saying whether she received a settlement.
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