White House drawn into legal battle over Stormy Daniels

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

The White House is being pulled into the legal fight between President Trump’s 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 — Trump’s 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.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377511-white-house-drawn-into-legal-battle-over-stormy-daniels?userid=216387

[Gothmog]

1. This will be a fun lawsuit to watch

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Follow the money

Was a check written in 2006?

[Ccarmona]

4. The Check was Written in 2016

To keep Stormy quiet from taking her story public right before the election.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Yes but if they could find one written in 2006 it would double the fun

[Achilleaze]

3. Comrade Dirty Donnie* - the republican Casino Hustler - appears to

have his "tit caught in the wringer" to use a republican turn-of-phrase.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[getagrip_already]

6. wonder how the right will spin the abortion he had have?

or so the rumor goes. Just one of the things she will be selling when/if the court ok's it.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Trump gets a mulligan every day from them, I think

of course, they way they horrors for Trump are adding up, he's going to need a lot more than 1/day

[lark]

7. Bigger than that - he used the trump.org email to make the arrangements.

This is definitely a donation to drumpfs campaign and Cohen and drumpf are going down for this.

[kimbutgar]

8. Strippers sleeping with the President is more interesting than Twitler doing a talking point

Announcement about Kim of NK. The press likes the sex part over diplomacy. Boring yawn to them. It will not go away Twitler.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

10. Any more info on the, "paternity information"...

... that Lawrence O'Donnell read off a legal letter on his show the other night?

[Skittles]

11. The Art of the Deal