Mar 22, 2022 · Adult film star Stormy Daniels has lost her appeal in her failed defamation suit against Donald Trump — leaving her owing almost $300,000 in legal fees to the former president. "I will go to jail before I pay a penny," Daniels tweeted Monday after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against her in the long-running case. Trump hailed the ruling by the appeals …
May 16, 2018 · President Trump Just Acknowledged the Stormy Daniels Payoff in Campaign Paperwork. P resident Donald Trump acknowledged paying off his personal lawyer – presumably for a payoff to porn star ...
Mar 22, 2022 · Porn star Stormy Daniels must pay ex-President Donald Trump nearly $300,000 in attorneys' fees, a federal appeals court said in a ruling upholding a judge's order in her failed defamation lawsuit.
Mar 21, 2018 · Now it seems that Stormy Daniels’ attorney is claiming that she was physically threatened, presumably by someone in Trump World, if she refused to abide by the non-disclosure agreement she signed (but Mr. Trump did not). Supposedly she was paid $130,000 for her silence although it is anything but clear whose money that was.
Daniels has sued both Trump and Cohen, the former for violating the non-disclosure agreement, alleging it was invalid because he didn’t actually sign it, and the latter for defamation. Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ attorney said Wednesday that the acknowledgement of the payments will strengthen his client’s argument.
That would presumably include his $130,000 to Cohen, who he reimbursed for paying off Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in the weeks before the election to prevent her from discussing her alleged affair with Trump.
On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted something genuinely funny:
People who don’t obsessively follow the permutations of campaign finance law may think that the Supreme Court’s notorious 2010 Citizens United decision made it legal for a billionaire to spend unlimited amounts of their money to get elected to political office.