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Title: Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation over 'con job' tweet
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NBC News
URL Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new ... ion-over-con-job-tweet-n870171
Published: Apr 30, 2018
Author: Sarah Fitzpatrick and Tracy Connor
Post Date: 2018-04-30 15:31:33 by IbJensen
Keywords: None
Views: 5832
Comments: 43
Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Donald Trump for a tweet that said a forensic sketch of a man who allegedly threatened her in 2011 was "a total con job." Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and was warned by an unidentified man to keep quiet about it five years later, after she gave an interview to a gossip magazine. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan centers on an April 18 post on Trump's Twitter account in which he reacts to another person's tweet about the sketch. "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man," Trump's post said. "A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!" The suit alleges Trump's comment amounts to an accusation that Clifford fabricated the threat and exposed her to ridicule and violent threats. "Mr. Trump used his national and international audience of millions of people to make a false factual statement to denigrate and attack Ms. Clifford," the complaint says. Trump's attorney had no immediate comment on the defamation claim. Read Stormy Daniels' defamation lawsuit Clifford's attorney, Michael Avenatti, said, "Regardless of who you are or what position you hold, you are not permitted to fabricate statements in an effort to deceive people. There are consequences for doing that." This is the second lawsuit that Clifford has filed against Trump. Earlier this year she sued him and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to dissolve a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 election in exchange for $130,000. Last week, a federal judge put the earlier suit on hold for 90 days because Cohen is now under federal investigation in connection with the payment to Clifford. The White House has said Clifford's allegations are false. "I've had conversations with the president about this," Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in March. "And as I outlined earlier, that this case had already been won in arbitration, and that there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations." Earlier this month, aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters that he didn't know about the $130,000 payment to Clifford and said they should ask Cohen. Cohen has said that he paid the hush money out of his own funds and was not repaid by the Trump campaign or Trump Organization — though he has not explicitly said Trump himself didn't repay it. Last week, during a live interview, Trump appeared to acknowledge that Cohen was representing him in the payment arrangement. "He represents me like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal, he represented me," Trump said in a phone call to "Fox and Friends." Clifford underwent a polygraph test in 2011, and the examiner concluded she was telling the truth when she said she and Trump had unprotected sex in 2006. She took the exam at the request of a magazine that interviewed her about the encounter but didn't publish a story about it at the time. She contends the confidentiality pact she signed in 2016 is invalid because Trump didn't sign it. Lawyers for Cohen and Trump say the president was not a party to the agreement, so his signature wasn't required.
Poster Comment: Stormy the worn-out porn whore! This is so damned ridiculous. She allegedly screws, gets $130,000 and now wants to hog the spotlight and our leftist press accommodates her.
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#2. To: IbJensen (#0)
right! dip-shit "grab'em by the pussy" donnie is totally innocent! That's right! he never banged this porn star, and never had his "fixer" pay her off to keep her mouth shut...nope! not this 'mercan patriot!! F-yeah drain the swamp!! Listen... He actually did bang this porn-star.... and he did have his butt-boy cohen pay her off.... and now Mike "the wannabe fixer" Cohen will be indicted and the "Stormy banging cover-up" details will become public record...AND degenerate donnie is going to be faced with the simple fact that even IF you're POTUS, and even IF you're shit-hole donnie..... you cannot publicly defame someone... Especially if you're trying to cover up your "spank-me with fortune magazine fantasies".. and you think president tiny-hands is the victim here??? MAGA!!! F-yeah!! 'merca!!
Jameson,with all due respect,eat shit and die. If all you can do is whine like a little bitch as Trump accomplishes more POSITIVE things in less than two years than the entire fucking Bush Crime family managed to do through two presidencies. It is scum party people like you that have pissed this country down the drain while you attend pep rallies for your home team.
What does the bush crime family have to do with this? DD45 banged this actress, has been lying about it for years, and had his submissive butt-boy pay her off. Your president is a degenerate, lying sack of shit. Facts.
No,that would be YOUR president,Boy Jorge Bush. MY president is just a ego-maniac that humped a whore,and the whore is now trying to keep her career going by making it public long after she spent the money. Poor judgement on his part given her career. I personally wouldn't want to bump up against her in a crowd walking down the street. If I did,I would want a Clorox shower.
I'm really not sure where you got that idea.... I did not vote for, or support in any manner Duh-bya.
Then you are talking trash because you never voted for a candidate that actually won.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Ok,set me straight. Who have you been voting for?
#30. To: sneakypete (#28)
He only votes for faggot lovers and baby murderers. He is a murderer at heart.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThis is so damned ridiculous.
#3. To: Jameson (#2)
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#10. To: sneakypete (#3)
entire fucking Bush Crime family managed to do through two presidencies.
#18. To: Jameson (#10)
Your president is a degenerate, lying sack of shit.
#20. To: sneakypete (#18)
No,that would be YOUR president,Boy Jorge Bush.
#23. To: Jameson (#20)
I did not vote for, or support in any manner Duh-bya.
#27. To: sneakypete (#23)
Then you are talking trash because you never voted for a candidate that actually won.
#28. To: Jameson (#27)
You have no idea what you're talking about.
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