President Trump’s lawyer secretly obtained a restraining order last week to prevent a pornographic film star from speaking out about her alleged affair with Mr. Trump.
The White House’s spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Wednesday that President Trump’s lawyer won an arbitration proceeding against the actress, Stephanie Clifford. She had been paid $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election in what she calls a “hush agreement.” But in recent weeks, she had prepared to speak publicly about Mr. Trump, claiming his lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, had broken the agreement.
Ms. Sanders’s statement put the White House in the middle of a story that Mr. Trump and his lawyer had been trying to keep quiet for well over a year. The turn of events created the spectacle of a sitting president using legal maneuvers to avoid further scrutiny of particularly salacious accusations of an affair and a payoff involving the porn star, who goes by the name of Stormy Daniels.
Although Ms. Clifford said their relationship was consensual, the issue is particularly sensitive to Mr. Trump, whose campaign was dogged by allegations of groping and his boast of grabbing women’s crotches.
Ms. Clifford filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday asserting that the nondisclosure agreement that accompanied the $130,000 payment was void because Mr. Trump never signed it.
Ms. Sanders said that the president had denied having an affair with Ms. Clifford or making the payment himself. She added that she was not aware of whether Mr. Trump knew about the payment to Ms. Clifford at the time.
“I’ve had conversations with the president about this,” Ms. Sanders said. “This case has already been won in arbitration, and there was no knowledge of any payments from the president, and he has denied all these allegations.”
Trump's lawyer filed restraining order against Stormy Daniels
Adrian Thomas
Carson Collins
>Trump fucks pornstars at like age 60 while cheating on his 3rd supermodel wife
Ok so hes definitely going to win 2020
Joseph Cruz
Will they televise her getting fucked by his legal team?
Connor Miller
Drumpfy is finished
Asher Wood
>this
MAGA
Oliver Jones
Who cares. What I don't understand is why he wants to let people slaughter elephants all the sudden. Pretty fucking sick.
Austin Reed
Let me guess. She blew through her money and is looking for more by blackmail or selling her story on msnbc.
Mason Adams
Just Dumbo O'Donnell
Landon Butler
barack bang any pornstars?
John Bailey
>trump lawyer
who? which one?