Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To "60 Minutes" Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview

[DonViejo]

Source: Buzzfeed News

Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday.

Posted on March 11, 2018, at 12:50 p.m.

Chris Geidner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Washington, DC

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Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop “60 Minutes” from airing an interview with Stephanie Clifford, the adult film performer and director who goes by Stormy Daniels, BuzzFeed News has learned.

“We understand from well placed sources they are preparing to file for a legal injunction to prevent it from airing,” a person informed of the preparations told BuzzFeed News on Saturday evening. It was not immediately clear what legal argument the lawyers would be making to support the considered litigation, and Trump and his legal team often have threatened litigation without following through on those threats in the past.

Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney who previously was a longtime lawyer for the Trump Organization, directed questions about the possibility of litigation to Larry Rosen, who Cohen told BuzzFeed News is “my attorney handling this matter.” Rosen — a partner in the firm LaRocca, Hornick, Rosen, Greenberg & Blaha — acknowledged his role in the matter generally but did not comment directly on the possibility of seeking an injunction.

The action would be the latest in a flurry of developments in a case that began just before the 2016 election when Cohen paid Clifford $130,000 in return for her silence about a sexual relationship she allegedly had with Trump in 2006. At the time, Trump was under intense pressure over comments he’d made about his treatment of women in the run-up to the vote.

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[dameatball]

1. For $130,000 I promise not to watch it.

[rainin]

27. Me, too. n/t

[Achilleaze]

2. That will stop everyone from blabbing about Stormy & Dirty Donnie* (R)

Right?



* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[cilla4progress]

3. Do you suppose

This will air tonight?

[tavernier]

41. 18th

[Fred Sanders]

4. Cohen, if I hire you and I also did NOT have sex with Stormy, do I get $130,000?? How is

your line of credit doing?

By the way, paying off clients potential plaintiffs using your own funds to stop any lawsuit is totally a breach of legal ethical code. I give you 6 months before disbarment.

[Leghorn21]

8. Mikie will hook you up, Fred!

[mountain grammy]

38. That's funny!

[Sophia4]

44. Love it!

Cohen just represents Trump out of the goodness of Cohen's heart. What a kind man!

Unbelievably dedicated to his clients. Goes way above and beyond.

"Unbelievable" is the key word when it comes to Cohen.

One of a lawyer's most important ethical rules is to tell the truth to the court.

I wonder whether Cohen has represented to the court that he paid Stormy out of his own money. Because if he did, he had better be ready to prove it.

[UpInArms]

11. I imagine that it would be easy for him to get his bank to show

where he took out a loan on his house for that $130,000 ...

And I do have a bridge to sell ..

[Fred Sanders]

17. Or what the exact same amount, less a few pennies, was transferred from Trump campaign

to Trump properties to...? And then next day the pay in exact same amount? What was the suddenly created LLC for? Why not just direct transfer from line of credit?

Congressional investigation if a black man was in the White House.

Each part of the money trail is only suspicious, but the entire road is a quagmire of guilt.

[shanny]

5. Censorship? Prior restraint? Good luck with that.

Oh and please proceed with throwing gasoline on the fire, you idjits.

[Dopers_Greed]

6. If it's "fake news" why are they fighting so hard to suppress it

[Politicub]

7. Prior restraint is illegal

Fuck trump.

If the media could publish the Pentagon Papers, then 60 minutes can run with an interview with the president's porn star.

[bitterross]

24. Pretty much the same thing I was thinking.

With the Pentagon Papers they probably had some semblance of a case for national security. This is all purely a civil matter. I can't even imagine what argument they could make to prevent this.

[steve2470]

36. Yep you nailed it

Trump and his sleazy lawyers are so full of BS.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Bulldoze the truth so our #FakeNews can rule the airwaves

These people should be in jail. They obstruct what they don't like so they can piss on everything else.

[Maxheader]

10. It comes out..

Cheetoz weeny is not proportional to his bravado..

[erronis]

33. Since that's where his IQ resides (head of weenie), there's not much room

for thoughtfulness.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. If so, I hope they air it tonight.

[tavernier]

42. Due to air on 18th

[Leghorn21]

13. Is it just me, or when you see the phrase

“Trump’s lawyers”, do you snicker a little bit?

[PJMcK]

16. Yep

These attorneys have a fool for a client and they will be soiled by him just as everyone else in his orbit gets stained.

The lawyers must get a huge advance to protect against Trump's history of non-payment.

[Botany]

14. "Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To "60 Minutes" Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview"

aka Trump's lawyers make 60 minutes must see TV

[poboy2]

19. Exactly, this will only increase viewership

[machoneman]

31. Yep! Now they may be successful in blocking....

the interview from airing as planned. But, it will been seen later as no judge, court, etc, can or would block the interview for ever airing as noted above by some others. Regardless of their claims, whatever they may be, the 1st Admendment is supreme here.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Shades of Dan Rather.

[Bengus81]

18. Der Fuehrer does not want to allow this segment on TV. Everyone MUST comply............

[KPN]

20. Silencing dissenters. Attacking the 1st Amendment

again.

[Ccarmona]

21. Most People Didnt even Know the Interview Was Planned, but

Trump’s lawyers made it an issue, so now the ratings will soar.
Idiots.

[onetexan]

32. but but... he hires the best people

[NastyRiffraff]

37. Dear Trump lawyers:

Thank you for calling this to my attention. I will be sure to follow up.

[bpj62]

22. Trumps Lawyers

Michael Cohen is great at intimidating contractors and individuals who cannot afford good representation. However he Is now playing in the majors and his lack of talent is beginning to show. Trump Enterprises is nothing but a crime organization. Trump clearly thinks he Is a Mafia Don and he has gotten away with everything his whole adult life. I will relish the day he is taken down.

[Mr.Bill]

23. They should put it out on the internet immediately. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

25. porn star presidential sex

[Iliyah]

26. Do it.

[rainin]

28. Censorship worked swimmingly for Streisand. Let him try. LOL n/t

[rickford66]

29. Remember when GOP used to derride the number of Democratic lawyers ?

Now their lawyers have lawyers who have lawyers.

[riversedge]

30. This should increase the ratings.

[mountain grammy]

39. I know, they'll get me to watch, dammit.

Gave them up years ago.

[jeffreyi]

34. What a picture

Squirmtown! Priceless expressions.

[mr_lebowski]

35. We shouldn't underestimate Don the Con ... not at this point ...

I would be totally unsurprised if the interview isn't her fawning the whole time over what a gentleman he was, just 'we had a nice but too-brief relationship ... and it was wrong because he was married but it was really very tame and he treated me very well and I have no desire to talk about any intimate details, of which there are very few anyway' ...

And all he's doing right now with these threats of lawsuits against CBS or whatever ... is promoting an interview he WANTS the world to see.

Don't underestimate the asshole, he's totally sneaky in the exact sort of way I described.

[mountain grammy]

40. Do you really think he's that smart?

I swear, I'll be pissed if you're right because I'm sucked into watching.

[mr_lebowski]

46. In this ONE single way ... yeah he's smart enough ...

Although 'conniving enough' is a more accurate description ...

[mountain grammy]

48. I'll be watching anyway and hoping for a bombshel about the $$$$

Geeze, I hate that asshole.

[tavernier]

43. Maybe if Hannity was the interviewer,

but Anderson Cooper won’t buy it.

[mr_lebowski]

47. Thing is, nobody 'knows what happened' other than 'an affair', really, so what's AC gonna ...

really 'come at her with' in terms of like 'calling bullshit?' ... what does he reasonably 'know' that's especially damaging to Trump other than what we already all suppose is true, which is that Trump via Cohen paid her off to keep quiet?

I mean we all know that much now so there's not much more 'point' to made on that subject, so ... what else are you expecting from AC?

You think he'd be all 'so come on, tell us about the Presidents weird kinks, we all KNOW he has 'em right? What kinda weird shit did he make you do? Oh, yeah and ... also, c'mon ... the people want to know ... small penis, right, Ms. Clifford? Right?'

I mean he's NOT gonna be doing that, as he's too classy of a cat ... so UNLESS she's decided she want to make Trump look bad (which we don't know for sure, at all) ... IN THIS INTERVIEW ... and don't forget she's trying to cash in so a book is almost a certainty ... ergo it's to her advantage to maintain mystery with subtle hints ... and then go 'and you can read all about the details in the upcoming page-turner from Stormy Daniels, 'My Affair With the President', coming soon from Doubleday Books!'

Don't get your hopes up is all I'm saying ...

[Adrahil]

45. These morons never read the First Amendment?

They can enforce the provisions of their porn cover-up contract against Daniels, but the First Amendment is clear that the court cannot prevent 60 minutes from airing the segment.

[YOHABLO]

49. So this airs the 18th on ''60 minutes"? Bound to be a ratings record.

[SunSeeker]

50. LOL. 60 Minutes is HOPING Trump sues them!

The publicity from the lawsuit filing will jack up the show's ratings, then 60 Minutes can file a Demurrer which will surely be sustained, dismissing the lawsuit. Then 60 Minutes can file its own suit against Trump for maliciius prosecution, asking for their attorney's fees, which they will win, but not before deposing Trump and creating another ratings blockbuster 60 Minutes show with snippets from the depo. The depo will give them the opportunity to ask Trump all about Stormy...and Russia, and pee pee tapes, and why he likes being spanked with a Forbes magazine, and the list goes on and on.


Come on, Donnie. Go for it. File it!