Trump attorney: 'I have never threatened' Stormy Daniels

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 03/20/2018 07:24 AM EDT

President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney said last week that he has never threatened the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump, and that Daniels’s legal effort to void a nondisclosure agreement about that affair will fail and ultimately cost her millions.

“I have never spoken to her. I have never e-mailed her. I have never met her. I have never texted her,” Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney whose signature appears on the non-disclosure agreement, told Vanity Fair. “Every interaction with Ms. Clifford was always through her previous attorney.”

Asked if Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, had been threatened by anybody with a connection to the president, Cohen replied “I can only speak for myself… I have never threatened her in any way and I am unaware of anyone else doing so.”

Michael Avenatti, Daniels’s attorney, said last week on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that his client had been threatened with physical harm, although Avenatti refused to say who issues those threats or when they were received.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/20/trump-michael-cohen-threat-stormy-daniels-473007?lo=ap_a1

[Achilleaze]

1. "I did not have sex with that superhot porno star, Mzzz. Stormy." - Dirty Donny* (R)

"And you know (heh heh) that you can trust me. (heh heh)" - Dirty Donny (R)


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Translation: "I Might Have Threatened Her"

"By accident, but i actually don't recall any of this."

[forgotmylogin]

13. "I can only speak for myself" "I have never threatened her"

Neither of those rule out the situation where he solicited someone else to threaten her on his and 45's behalf.

[Wwcd]

3. Lordy, I hope there's a tape!

[IggleDuer]

10. Or a blue dress ..

Stormy is a schrewed person. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if she kept a sample.

[Wwcd]

11. Rofl...Stormy saved a sample of their encounter

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Maeve]

4. Someone might have, but I don't know

I'm not aware of everything John Barron might have done....

[Botany]

6. He leaves himself a "lawyers out"

“I can only speak for myself… I have never threatened her."

But he would not say that he didn't have any knowledge if others might have
threatened Ms. Clifford. Trump has been associated with the mob for years
and Cohn being Trump's lawyer no doubt has knowledge about threats being
standard operating practice for the mob.

[getagrip_already]

8. isn't he trumps lawyer? by definition - he can speak for trump.....

but I have no doubt he is either lying or he directed someone else to do it.

[Botany]

9. Yup! Lawyer, "I can't speak for my client."

BTW Cohn is in deep shit for laundering Trump campaign money through
Trump Hotels and then depositing that money into an LLC he set up which
then paid off Stephanie Clifford (Stormy Daniels) to keep quit about her
affair w/Trump.

[NotASurfer]

5. It was more like "it would not displease me if..."

Then ranting about what kind of threats he fantasizes about

And surprise, one of his lackeys carried through

[forgotmylogin]

14. Gawd...

45 loves that. "I was only expressing a hope, not ordering someone to do it I can't help if they listen to me as the Commander in Chief and what they do just happens to match my random hypothetical wish so I'm not responsible and ..."

[Stargazer99]

7. The cons are hoping they have dumbed down enough of the general public that

the thought that someone may have been hired to do the threatening was not addressed by the lawyer...you see why they don't want to teach critical thinking in public schools? How can you manipulate people when they think for themselves?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. tRump fanbase threats?

Perhaps what Mr. Avenatti is referring to is threats coming from anonymous people via phone, text, email or social media - typically from tRump's rage-minded right-wing followers. Almost everyone that's spoke out publicly against the NotMyPresident has received threats in some form or another.

[mitch96]

15. I think he knows that a criminal act or threat

will void the NDA and "poof" she spills the beans.
m

[MurrayDelph]

16. I never threatened her

Those were promises.

[tinrobot]

17. It was David Dennison... or John Barron... or Meridith McIver...