The White House appears to have confirmed that a porn star was paid for not divulging information about Trump
The White House appears to have confirmed that a porn star was paid for not disclosing any information about Donald Trump. During yesterday's press conference, Wednesday, March 7, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders referred to an arbitration won by President Trump's attorney against a porn actress who claimed she had sex with him about ten years ago. Sanders’s statement therefore seems to confirm the story that several newspapers had talked about a few weeks ago, and which at first the White House had denied.
The Wall Street Journal reported last January that in 2016, US President Donald Trump's election committee paid a porn star not to publicly reveal information about a relationship the two had had ten years earlier. The woman is called Stephanie Clifford - but she is known and active under the pseudonym "Stormy Daniels" - and according to the Wall Street Journal during the election campaign she had received $ 130,000 from Trump for not speaking publicly about their meetings. After the news, the White House had issued a statement to deny the allegations, claiming that they had already been denied before the election. Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said they were just "rumors that have been circulating since 2011".
History has been talked about in recent days due to a series of legal maneuvers. On Tuesday, March 6, Stephanie Clifford sued US President Donald Trump in a Los Angeles court, saying the nondisclosure agreement made shortly before the vote to keep quiet about their alleged relationship was void because it was procedurally flawed. This is because Trump would never have signed it, not approving the payment of 130,000 dollars that his lawyer Michael Cohen paid instead "out of his own pocket". The woman's attorney said: "We have filed an appeal asking for a court order to invalidate the alleged 'silence' agreement between our client Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and Donald Trump."
Clifford's lawsuit unveiled the nondisclosure agreement signed by her and Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen just days before the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuit was filed after last week, February 27, l President Trump's attorney obtained a temporary restraining order against the woman for violating that same agreement. The order intimates to the actress that she could face sanctions if she were to talk about her alleged relationship with the president.
During yesterday’s press conference, Wednesday 7 March, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked several questions on the issue: who had won the arbitration and when, for example. The spokesperson replied by saying that the arbitration had been won by Trump's lawyer (thus implying that the arbitration had been used as a simpler and less expensive alternative to a court case), that Trump was unaware of the payment. and that for the details it was still necessary to speak with the president's personal lawyers.
