Tag: Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation

The following article by Emily C. Singer was posted on the mic.com website April 30, 2018:

Porn actress Stormy Daniels is using President Donald Trump’s favorite legal tactic to cause more trouble for the embattled commander-in-chief: suing him for defamation.

Daniels filed a lawsuit Monday alleging Trump defamed her when he posted a tweet attacking the sketch Daniels released about a man she says threatened her in a parking lot in 2011, when she was looking to talk publicly about her alleged affair with Trump.

“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Trump tweeted April 18, retweeting another account that suggested the sketch looked like Daniels’ ex. Continue reading “Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation”

Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted

The following article by Beth Reinhard was posted on the Washington Post website April 27, 2018:

Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels made a statement outside a Manhattan federal court April 16. (Reuters)

A federal judge on Friday granted Michael Cohen’s request for a delay in a lawsuit brought against him by porn star Stormy Daniels, saying it appeared likely Cohen will be indicted in a related criminal investigation.

Judge S. James Otero’s order for a 90-day stay comes two days after Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California. Cohen’s declaration cited the investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who are examining his role in quashing embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. Continue reading “Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted”

Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted

The following article by Beth Reinhard was posted on the Washington Post website April 27, 2018:

Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels made a statement outside a Manhattan federal court April 16. (Reuters)

A federal judge on Friday granted Michael Cohen’s request for a delay in a lawsuit brought against him by porn star Stormy Daniels, saying it appeared likely Cohen will be indicted in a related criminal investigation.

Judge S. James Otero’s order for a 90-day stay comes two days after Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California. Cohen’s declaration cited the investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who are examining his role in quashing embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. Continue reading “Judge puts Stormy Daniels case on hold for 90 days, citing likelihood Michael Cohen will be indicted”

Did Trump just make a ‘hugely damning admission’ in the Stormy Daniels case?

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website April 26, 2018:

President Trump, for the first time, said that Michael Cohen represented him in efforts to silence Stormy Daniels in an interview with “Fox & Friends” April 26. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

President Trump made a rare public comment about the Michael Cohen-Stormy Daniels case Thursday morning, playing down the lawyer’s work for him and insisting that he didn’t know about Cohen’s business activities.

But Trump also said something that would seem … less than ideal. While describing Cohen’s allegedly limited work for him — a “tiny fraction” of his legal work, Trump assured — Trump confirmed to “Fox and Friends” that Cohen “represented” him in the Daniels case. Continue reading “Did Trump just make a ‘hugely damning admission’ in the Stormy Daniels case?”

A Short History of Threats Received by Donald Trump’s Opponents

The following article by Decca Muldowney was posted on the ProPublica website April 20, 2018:

The pattern goes beyond Stormy Daniels.

Stormy Daniels exits US District Court for the Southern District of New York on April 16, 2018. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

When Stormy Daniels spoke to “60 Minutes” last month, the porn actress described a threat she received years ago after speaking to a journalist about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. A stranger approached her in a parking lot in Las Vegas. Daniels was there with her baby daughter. “Leave Trump alone,” Daniels recalled the man warning her. “That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.”

Daniels did not report the threat to the police. On Wednesday, Donald Trump tweeted that Daniels’ account of events was “a total con job” about a “non-existent man.”

As it happens, other people in disputes with Trump have also found themselves the targets of threats — and sometimes they’ve reported it to authorities. Continue reading “A Short History of Threats Received by Donald Trump’s Opponents”

Trump lawyer now claims his statements about Stormy Daniels were just hyperbole

The following article by Melanie Schmitz was posted on the ThinkProgress website April 10, 2018:

Cohen says not to take him literally or seriously.

A longtime lawyer for President Trump argued in a new court filing this week that he was simply being “hyperbolic” when he suggested adult film actress Stormy Daniels was lying about an affair she claimed to have had with President Trump.

Michael D. Cohen, who has worked with the Trump Organization for close to a decade, is currently being sued by Daniels for defamation. Daniels claims she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006, one year after Trump’s marriage to his third wife, Melania. Daniels said that she was initially pressured not to go public with her story in 2011, and in 2016, after attempting to speak out about the affair once more, was contacted by Cohen and paid $130,000 to stay silent — weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels claimed that the money was part of a non-disclosure agreement she entered into with Cohen, who signed on behalf of the shell company. Trump, however, did not sign the document. Continue reading “Trump lawyer now claims his statements about Stormy Daniels were just hyperbole”

Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations

The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett was posted on the Washington Post website April 9, 2018:

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, is under federal investigation. The Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger explains what you need to know. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, according to three people with knowledge of the case.

FBI agents on Monday raided Cohen’s Manhattan office, home and hotel room as part of the investigation, seizing records about Cohen’s clients and personal finances. Among the records taken were those related to a 2016 payment Cohen made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump, according to a fourth person familiar with the investigation. Continue reading “Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations”

Trump finally spoke about Stormy Daniels — and he made things much worse

The following article by Judd Legum was posted on the ThinkProgress website April 5, 2018:

Ignorance is not always bliss.

After months of silence about Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006, Trump finally spoke.

It did not go well. Continue reading “Trump finally spoke about Stormy Daniels — and he made things much worse”

‘Stormy Effect’: Trump’s support falls with women, rises with men in new poll

The following article by Jonathan Easley was posted on the Hill website April 2, 2018:

President Trump’s support among women plunged this month as he battled controversies surrounding alleged affairs with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, according to a new poll.

Support from women fell from 41 percent to 35 percent in the new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, even as Trump’s support among men rose 3 points to 53 percent. Continue reading “‘Stormy Effect’: Trump’s support falls with women, rises with men in new poll”

From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump’s business is under siege

The following article by Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold was posted on the Washington Post website March 30, 2018:

Trump Tower in New York is the headquarters of the president’s business. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The carefully maintained secrecy around President Trump’s finances is under unprecedented assault a year into his presidency, with three different legal teams with different agendas trying to pry open the Trump Organization’s books.

On one side is special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who has subpoenaed Trump Organization documents as part of his wide-ranging investigation into the 2016 campaign. On another is Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress seeking internal correspondence as part of her effort to be freed from a nondisclosure agreement centering on an alleged affair with Trump. Continue reading “From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump’s business is under siege”