It seems that Donald Trump is again trying to silence Stormy Daniels, despite his recent convictions in this category.
MSNBC Rachel Maddow reports that Trump lawyers tried to “conclude another monetary contract” with the adult cinema star, to prevent him from making “public or private statements linked to any presumed previous interaction” with the former president. In exchange for his written agreement, Trump's team would have proposed to adjust the debt she owes to Trump for the unsuccessful defamation case that her lawyer brought in 2018.
Daniels still has to pay “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in legal costs, said Maddow, and by marking the exact amount, Trump lawyers would have proposed to “claim” that she owed their client “less than they believed”. While they first estimated Daniels's debt at $ 650,000, Maddow reported, they said they would settle her tab for $ 620,000, if she promised to make no “defamatory or denigrant declaration about her, her business and / or affiliates, nor his relevance as a candidate for the presidency”. They then adjusted the costs, requesting $ 635,000 if it refused to sign a non-divulgation agreement. Daniels would have refused them, paying $ 627,500 and refused to sign the NDA.
As you may remember, Daniels went up for the first time on the political scene in 2018, when she revealed that – the days before the 2016 elections – Trump paid $ 130,000 to keep her silence on a consensual sexual meeting that the two had in 2006. At that time, Trump's wife, Melania, would have just given birth to their son, which makes adultery for him. The lawyer and fixer of the president, Michael Cohen, admitted that Trump had ordered him to make the payments and had reimbursed him under the cover of commercial spending. This, in turn, stimulated his conviction for 34 chiefs of fraud earlier this year. He must be sentenced to those After the 2024 elections.
When Maddow reached the Trump campaign to comment, she said they told him that emails were “part of Iranian piracy”. And while a trio of Iranian men recently had access to campaign files (potentially by passing the judge of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas), Maddow appointed his sources: Daniels herself, who recorded the call in which his lawyer first informed him of the alleged proposal of Trump, and his legal team, which shared the exchange with E-mail with Maddow.
The correspondent herself claims to be both “disconcerted” and a little shocked by the apparent audacity of Trump, who, yes. Filling money with silence would be a wild decision, all that is considered.
