The Wall Street Journal is giving more details on the premarital affair between Donald Trump and the porn star, Stormy Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford).
No, I’m not talking about anything from the 2011 interview, like today’s little nugget: Trump asked Daniels to spank him with a Forbes Magazine.
Today’s reveal is in regards to the alleged hush money payoff from October 2016. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, used a private company and a pseudonym to make the payment.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Cohen used Essential Consultants LLC, to send a lawyer representing the actress who calls herself Stormy Daniels $130,000 as part of a non-disclosure agreement concerning her relationships with Trump, who has been married to first lady Melania Trump since 2005. Cohen represented the Trump Organization at the time.
In making the transaction, both Cohen and Daniels’ lawyer used pseudonyms, according to the Journal. The deal allegedly occurred in October of 2016, just weeks before voters headed to the polls.
And of course, Cohen and Trump are falling all over themselves to say it didn’t happen, no matter what Trump’s long history of womanizing may be.
This is great: Michael Cohen *could've* shielded his identity on the formation documents for the LLC he set up to preserve anonymity for the Stormy Daniels payment.
Instead, he listed himself as an "authorized person." https://t.co/DGlbPg4BFZ pic.twitter.com/EiBrjDinhk
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 18, 2018
The payoff came in the midst of an avalanche of allegations of sexual misconduct. Over a dozen women came forward to accuse then-candidate Trump of past inappropriate behavior – ranging from uninvited, rough kissing, to walking into the dressing rooms of contestants in the beauty pageants he owned, as they were in various stages of undress.
It was also after the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape gave everybody an audio confession of just how disgusting and misogynistic Donald Trump is.
Daniels was about to become one more woman telling her Trump tale on the talk show circuit when the payment was supposedly made.
Still, she’d already taken a polygraph test and passed, and given the interview to In Touch Magazine, 5 years earlier.
In the interview, Daniels revealed:
“[The sex] was textbook generic,” Daniels said. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me.’ ”
Daniels also told the publication that after the encounter, Trump kept saying: “ ‘I’m gonna call you, I’m gonna call you. I have to see you again. You’re amazing. We have to get you on ‘The Apprentice.’”
The affair was said to have gone on for more than just a single encounter. Several friends and her former husband all corroborate her story.
And yes, I’m shocked that Trump hasn’t taken to Twitter to say something about his sexual prowess, yet.
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