Stormy Daniels Sues Trump Alleging He Never Signed ‘Hush Agreement’

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 27:  Adult film actress/director Stormy Daniels attends the 2018 Adult Video News Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 27: Adult film actress/director Stormy Daniels attends the 2018 Adult Video News Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
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Porn actress Stephanie Clifford, who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump, alleging that he never signed a non-disclosure agreement that prohibited Clifford from publicly discussing her alleged intimate relationship with Trump.

In the complaint, Clifford claims that the agreement is null because Trump never signed it. Clifford’s lawyer attached the “hush agreement” to the complaint. It names the LLC set up to pay Clifford, and refers to Clifford as “Peggy Peterson,” and Trump as “David Dennison,” per Clifford.

As has been previously reported by the Wall Street Journal, Clifford claims in the complaint that Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen prepared the agreement and set up an LLC to pay Clifford $130,000 in exchange for her silence in October 2016. Cohen then admitted that he made the payment and claimed he made it out of his own pocket. Additional reporting from the Journal indicates that Cohen was expecting reimbursement from Trump for the payment to Clifford but never received it.

Clifford also claimed last month that she was free to discuss her alleged relationship with Trump because Cohen invalidated the agreement by acknowledging his payment to her, and she repeats this in the complaint.

Amid reports that Cohen paid hush money to Clifford, she released a statement at the end of January denying any relationship with Trump, only to later cast doubt on that denial. In the complaint filed on Tuesday, Clifford claims that Cohen used “intimidation and coercive tactics” to “force” her to sign the statement denying any intimate relationship with Trump.

Clifford also claims in the complaint that at the end of February, Cohen “initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding” against Clifford that was hidden from public view.

In the lawsuit, Clifford asks the court to declare that the agreement “invalid, unenforceable, and/or void,” freeing Clifford from the obligations laid out in the agreement.

The non-disclosure agreement attached by Clifford notes that she had “certain still images and/or text messages which were authored by or relate to” Dennison, the alleged stand-in name for Trump, and that she threatened to sell or make public certain images or information about Dennison without his consent. The agreement transfers Daniels’ rights to the information to Dennison and keeps her from disclosing any information about him or his sexual partners. The copies of the agreement included by Clifford shows a space for Dennison to sign but includes no signature.

In the lawsuit, Clifford claims that she began an intimate relationship with Trump in 2006 and that she met him at least once at the Beverly Hills Hotel, which lines up with her 2011 interview with In Touch magazine. Clifford also confirms in the complaint that she tried to publicize her relationship with Trump after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape, which prompted Cohen to draw up a non-disclosure agreement.

 

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  1. Sex sells.

    That’ll keep this in the news like… forever.

  2. I board a flight at 2 today. If this happened while I was on the ground, imagine what shit is sbout to come down.

  3. According to Josh there are sexts or images of an intimate nature or something. Make America Gag Again, man.

    Could be–Porn actress sues President for failing to meet terms of hush-money payment over illicit affair during the beginning of his third marriage? :smiley: Might be dick pics? :hushed: :open_mouth: :anguished: Yeah that just might be the publicity rocket fuel this amour de passage was looking for. All I can say is WALK MELANIA WALK because seriously you’re young and literally anyone would be a better hoozbond. He’s literally the worst person in the world.

    OK lots of snow in the east, snow day for many of us, let’s get to a thousand comments WE CAN DO IT

  4. Will Cockholster will find time to careen to the courthouse to sue Stormy for disclosing the affair he never had with her? Will he be able to retrieve the sexts and dick pics he sent the former porn star cum stripper? What about the videos? Will Melanoma finally answer the question “Do you still love me (after he had not one but two affairs while she was home caring for his newborn son)?”

    Answers to all those questions and more on the next installment of The Peckerwood’s Penis Phollies.

  5. cross posting from Cohn thread:

    In any other reality impeachment proceedings would be drawn up for this mishegas. My prediction: silence from most every corner with an occasional sheep bleating “fake news.”

    Cohen has already outed himself as the bag man so he’s cooked if this cray moves forward.

    If pics surface? Then I say it’s a whole new ball game.

    rim-shot

    ETA: filth aside, can’t wait to see the Rethuglicans pounce on the potential violations of federal election laws.

    crickets

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