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I guess it's not prostitution if you pay to do it with a porn star??? And oddly, Trump didn't pay for it. He got it for free. Of course the Libertarian view on this is that all victimless crimes including prostitution should be legalized. It's your body and you should be able to do what you want with it. Lawyer paid $130K to adult-film star to keep quiet about alleged Trump sexual encounter: report Heidi M. Przybyla, USA TODAY Published 2:39 p.m. MT Jan. 12, 2018 | Updated 9:37 p.m. MT Jan. 12, 2018 WASHINGTON – A lawyer representing President Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult film star one month before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from discussing an alleged sexual encounter between her and Trump some ten years earlier,The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, was the first to report on the agreement between Trump's longtime attorney and the woman, Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels. Michael Cohen, who was a lawyer for the Trump Organization at the time, did not directly address the latest report of the payment, but said “these rumors have circulated time and again since 2011." “Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms. Daniels," he said. According to The Journal, Clifford has privately alleged the encounter took place after the two met at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. That's a year after Trump married his third wife, Melania. The Journal previously reported that Clifford had been in talks with Good Morning America in the fall of 2016 about an appearance to discuss Trump, also citing people familiar with the matter. Clifford did not comment directly to the Journal, and Clifford’s lawyer declined to comment. Cohen also responded with a photograph of an undated letter signed by the porn star, denying the affair and reports of any payoff for her silence. "Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false. If indeed I did have a relationship with Donald Trump, trust me, you wouldn't be reading about it in the news, you would be reading about it in my book. But the fact of the matter is, these stories are not true," it said.
Personally I could care less who Trump, Obama, Bush or Clinton are sleeping with. But it becomes news when the Presidents pays a woman $130,000 to not say anything about the sex they had or didn't have. Also I'm looking forward to Stormy Daniels next adult movie which will probably be titled something like Stephanie Clifford does the President Donald Trump.Of course with the words slightly change so she can keep the $130,000 President gave her. And damn, according to this article Trump got it for free. Porn star Stormy Daniel's alleged affair with Trump takes new twist with old interview Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Published 8:36 a.m. MT Jan. 18, 2018 | Updated 10:03 a.m. MT Jan. 18, 2018 In Touch magazine has published a 7-year-old interview with a former porn star in which she goes into salacious details about an alleged extramarital affair with Donald Trump that only last week she claimed never took place. Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, told the magazine in 2011 that the alleged sexual trysts with Trump began in July 2006 after she met him at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nev. The meeting and alleged affair came a year after the future president had married Melania Trump, his third wife. “I actually don’t even remember why I did it but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please don’t try to pay me,’” Daniels said in the 2011 interview that the magazine only recently resurrected. “And then I remember thinking, ‘But I bet if he did, it would be a lot.'” In the In Touch article, Daniels purportedly told the magazine that she and Trump had several more encounters over the next few years. “Whether you’re a fan of his or not, which I never really was, you gotta admit he’s pretty fascinating,” she said in the interview published Wednesday. “We had really good banter. He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with, beautiful and smart just like his daughter.” The article, headlined Donald Trump Cheated on Melania With Me, is the latest twist in the Stormy Daniel saga that has gone through various permutations. Last week, she denied reports of an affair after The Wall Street Journal reported that the former adult film star was allegedly paid $130,000 through Trump's lawyer to keep silent. The Journal alleged that Michael Cohen, a longtime lawyer for Trump, arranged the $130,000 payment a month before the 2016 election. The article, quoting "people familiar with the matter," alleged that the payment was part of an agreement that precluded her from discussing the alleged affair with Trump publicly. The newspaper said Cohen and the White House denied the allegations of any agreement aimed at keeping her silent. Cohen also released a statement from Daniels denying any “sexual and/or romantic affair” with Trump or the receipt of any “hush money” from Trump. But In Touch was not the only media contact Daniels made. Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, wrote in Slate this week that Daniels likewise related to him details of her alleged affair in a series of phone conversations and text messages between August and October 2016, in which she was allegedly prepared to go public with her allegations. Weisberg said Daniels was also discussing going public on ABC's Good Morning America around the same time, but went silent about a week before the election, refusing to respond to Weisberg's messages. This was around the same time as the alleged payment to the actress. In a related story, Alana Evans, also an adult film actress and friend of Daniels, told Megyn Kelly of NBC's Today this week that Trump invited her to join him and Daniels for a “party” in his Lake Tahoe hotel room. She said she turned down the invitation but had an idea of what kind of "party" the pair allegedly had in mind. “If you’re inviting me to a hotel room to hang out with another man and a girlfriend of mine, it’s very easy for you to believe that there’s going to be more going on than just playing cards or Scrabble,” Evans said. She added that Daniels told her the next morning how the evening had unfolded. “She says, ‘Well picture this, Donald Trump chasing me around the bedroom in his tighty whities,” Evans told Kelly, “isn’t something that you forget.”
Jimmy Kimmel announces he'll interview 'very gifted' Stormy Daniels Tuesday Maria Puente, USA TODAY Published 10:30 a.m. MT Jan. 26, 2018 | Updated 11:28 a.m. MT Jan. 26, 2018 Well, this can't be cheerful news for President Trump and first lady Melania Trump: Stormy Daniels, the ex-porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair in 2006 and then reportedly paid off before the 2016 election, is set to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! following Tuesday's State of the Union address. Kimmel tweeted out the news late Thursday, describing Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as "very gifted." He didn't say how or why and his spokeswoman did not respond to a query about it from USA TODAY. But the ABC host added in all caps: "I have MANY QUESTIONS!" Yes, indeed, there are many questions, but will she answer them? Her pattern so far suggests not. She was interviewed on Inside Edition Thursday and merely smiled when asked directly if she had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump, as she once claimed. The White House has denied this but mostly declined to engage on the Stormy story. "This allegation was asked and answered during the campaign," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah told reporters aboard Air Force One last week. But that shouldn't stop Kimmel, who (like all the other late-night hosts) delights in mocking Trump at every opportunity — most recently Thursday night when he skewered POTUS with jokes after reports emerged that he tried to sack special counsel Robert Mueller last summer. Kimmel spokeswoman Alyssa Schimel said this will be Daniels' first appearance on a late-night show since The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 12 that Daniels was paid $130,000 through Trump's lawyer to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump. Then last week, the gossip magazine In Touch published a 7-year-old interview with Daniels in which she went into salacious details about the alleged affair; she claimed it happened around the time Melania Trump gave birth to their son, Barron, 11. Daniels, 38, now says the affair never happened but she wasn't saying that when the interview was conducted in 2011. She's apparently under a nondisclosure agreement — a legal gag order — judging from her coy turn on IE. When IE's Jim Moret asked her if she had a sexual relationship with Trump, she smiled and said nothing. "Have you been paid to be quiet? Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement?" Again, nothing. Meanwhile, CBS's Stephen Colbert had his own explanation for why Melania Trump canceled her plans to accompany President Trump to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, at the last minute. Mrs. Trump announced Monday she wasn't going after all due to "scheduling and logistics issues." “Yes, there were logistical issues,” Colbert joked Wednesday on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. “For instance, the weather. She was afraid it was going to be too Stormy.”
Looks like there is big money to be made by sleeping with the President and then doing a tell all story about it. First it was porn star Stormy Daniels, who is Stephanie Clifford in real life. She was paid $130,000 by Emperor Trump. Now it's former Playmate, Karen McDougal who got $82,500 out of a $150,000 deal. Personally I could care less who the American Emperor is sleeping with. But I did look at some photos of Stormy Daniels or Stephanie Clifford. 'New Yorker' says handwritten note by former Playmate details affair with Trump Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Published 7:42 a.m. MT Feb. 16, 2018 | Updated 8:37 a.m. MT Feb. 16, 2018 A former Playmate, who says she has been emboldened by the #MeToo movement and declining health, has confirmed to The New Yorker that she authored an eight-page, hand-written document about her alleged affair with Donald Trump that the magazine said was quietly buried by the National Enquirer after buying exclusive rights to it. The deal, which netted Karen McDougal $82,500, has prevented her from discussing the alleged relationship with Trump. McDougal, who was judged runner-up for "Playmate of the '90s," allegedly met Trump in 2006 at the Playboy mansion after Trump had been married to Slovenian model Melania Knauss for less than two years. She spoke to writer Ronan Farrow, who has written recently about sexual abuse in Hollywood, but was circumspect about details regarding Trump. She acknowledged, however, that she wrote the account of the alleged affair, which Farrow said he obtained from John Crawford, a friend of McDougal's. The Wall Street Journal, four days before the 2016 presidential election, reported that American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, had paid $150,000 for exclusive rights to McDougal’s story, which it never ran. Buying the rights to a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call “catch and kill.” David Pecker, CEO and chairman of A.M.I., has described Trump as a personal friend. McDougal, choosing her words carefully, said the emergence of the #MeToo movement and health problems, which she blames on breast implant removal last year, has prompted her to be more conflicted about the moral compromises of silence, The New Yorker says. “As I was sick and feeling like I was dying and bedridden, all I could do was pray to live. But now I pray to live right, and make right with the wrongs that I have done,” she told Farrow. She also noted the impact women have had in recent months by describing abuses by high-profile men. “I know it’s a different circumstance,” she said, “but I just think I feel braver.” A.M.I. said, according to the magazine, an amendment to McDougal’s contract — signed after Trump won the election — allowed her to “respond to legitimate press inquiries” regarding the alleged affair. The company said that it did not print the story because it did not find it credible. McDougal, in her first on-the-record comments about the handling of her story by The National Enquirer, declined to discuss the details of her relationship with Trump, for fear of violating the agreement, the magazine said. She did say, however, that she regretted signing the contract. “It took my rights away,” McDougal told Farrow. “At this point I feel I can’t talk about anything without getting into trouble, because I don’t know what I’m allowed to talk about. I’m afraid to even mention his name.” In the handwritten account of McDougal's story, obtained by The New Yorker, she wrote that Trump "immediately took a liking to me" after their meeting at Hugh Hefner's mansion, following a taping of Trump TV show The Apprentice. She wrote that their first date was dinner in a private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel that allegedly turned intimate. “I was so nervous! I was into his intelligence + charm. Such a polite man,” she wrote. “We talked for a couple hours — then, it was “ON”! We got naked + had sex.” As she was leaving, according to the account, McDougal writes he offered her money, which she said made her sad, and she declined. A.M.I. paid her $150,000 for her story. McDougal ended up with $82,500 after other intermediaries to the deal took a cut from the payment, the magazine said. The deal also included promises to publish columns by her and for other appearances in magazines. After Trump won the presidency, however, A.M.I.’s promises largely went unfulfilled, according to McDougal. The magazine said her story "provides a detailed look at how Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs— sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously — out of the press." The New Yorker said a White House spokesperson said in a statement that Trump denies having had an affair with McDougal. “This is an old story that is just more fake news," according to the statement. "The president says he never had a relationship with McDougal.” The article comes in the wake of a report in The New York Times that a porn star, Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 by Trump's personal lawyer only days before the election as part of a non-disclosure agreement. While Trump lawyer Michael Cohen confirms he "facilitated" the payment to Daniels, he has not disclosed its purpose. While Daniels has not discussed her alleged relationship with Trump since signing the deal, In-Touch magazine last month published salacious details of an alleged affair with Trump based on earlier interviews with the magazine.
This affair between Emperor Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels (AKA Stephanie Gregory Clifford) is getting really weird!!!! Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he paid Stormy Daniels with his home-equity line Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY Published 4:25 p.m. MT March 9, 2018 | Updated 8:49 a.m. MT March 10, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump's longtime lawyer said Friday he used his home-equity line of credit to arrange a $130,000 payment to a porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump. "The funds were taken from my home-equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank," Michael Cohen told ABC News, as scrutiny intensified over the October 2016 payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels. He also sought to dismiss allegations that his use of a Trump Organization email address to arrange the payment to Daniels signaled that Trump was aware of the transaction. "I sent emails from the Trump Org email address to my family, friends as well as Trump business emails," he told the network. "I basically used it for everything." In a statement earlier this year, Cohen said that neither the Trump campaign nor the Trump Organization was party to the agreement to pay off Daniels or reimbursed him for the payment. His statement was silent on whether Trump personally reimbursed him. Stormy Daniels is an adult film star who says she had a sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, while he was married to Melania. Here's what you may not know about her. USA TODAY Neither Cohen nor his lawyer Lawrence Rosen immediately responded to requests for more information. Cohen's explanation is the latest twist in the saga over the payment to Daniels, just days before the presidential election as the campaign grappled with a wave of sexual misconduct accusations against then-candidate Trump. Trump's team has denied the affair. Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti said on CNN that "it's absolutely laughable" that Trump was not aware of attempts by Cohen to pay Daniels. "So let me get this straight ," he wrote. "Cohen now claims he borrowed $130k on his house and pays interest on it in order to give that same $130k (on behalf of a Billionaire) to a woman who according to him was lying." On Tuesday, Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit against Trump saying a "hush" agreement she signed with Cohen was invalid because Trump never signed it. Daniels has sought to tell her story publicly, and Cohen last week won a temporary restraining order against the actress through a secret arbitration process. Daniels said she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007. On Friday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to answer reporters' questions about Daniels.
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