Trump's Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment For Adult Film Star's Silence

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Trump's Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult Film Star's Silence

A lawyer representing US President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult film star in the weeks 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

NEW YORK, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Jan, 2018 ) :REPEATING FOR ACKNOWLEGMENT A lawyer representing US President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult film star in the weeks 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 rumours have circulated time and again since 2011." "Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms.

Daniels," he was quoted as saying in the report. According to The Journal, Ms. 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 and present wife, Melania. The Journal previously reported that Ms. 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.

Ms. 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.

"Rumours 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. Trump faced other allegations during his election campaign of inappropriate behavior with women, and vehemently denied them.

In this matter, there is no allegation of a nonconsensual interaction. "These are old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election," a White House official was quoted as saying, while responding to the allegation of a sexual encounter involving Mr.

Trump and Ms. Clifford. The official declined to respond to questions about an agreement with Ms. Clifford.