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Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence
New York Times ^ | 03/12/2018 | By JIM RUTENBERG

Posted on 03/12/2018 11:25:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with President Trump offered on Monday to return $130,000 she received from Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer in 2016 for agreeing not to discuss the alleged relationship.

In exchange, the actress, Stephanie Clifford, seeks an end to her deal to keep quiet about what she says was an affair with Mr. Trump that started in 2006 and lasted for several months.

In the letter, which was sent to Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, early Monday, Ms. Clifford’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, wrote that Ms. Clifford would wire the money into an account of Mr. Trump’s choosing by Friday.

Mr. Avenatti set a deadline of noon Tuesday for Mr. Cohen to answer the offer from Ms. Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels.

Under the terms of the deal detailed in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, the contract ensuring Ms. Clifford’s silence would be “deemed null and void’’ once she returned the sum called for in her original contract.

Under Mr. Avenatti’s offer, Ms. Clifford would then be allowed to “(a) speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the President and the attempts to silence her and (b) use and publish any text messages, photos and/or videos relating to the President that she may have in her possession, all without fear of retribution and/or legal liability for damages.”

The letter also seeks an agreement that neither Mr. Trump nor the shell company that Mr. Cohen used to pay Ms. Clifford, which he represents as a party to their October 2016 deal, would move to block the broadcast of an interview that Ms. Clifford taped with “60 Minutes” last week.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: Jim 0216
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21 posted on 03/12/2018 11:33:33 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have to give her credit.

She keeps her mouth shut better that a lot of Congressmen!


22 posted on 03/12/2018 11:33:38 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: old curmudgeon

Typos and bad eyes don’t mix.

$130,000.

No matter. Everyone beat me to it anyway.


23 posted on 03/12/2018 11:34:14 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: SeekAndFind

Opportunistic whore


24 posted on 03/12/2018 11:34:23 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: SeekAndFind

She already spent that. This is the money Democrat deep staters have bribed her with.


25 posted on 03/12/2018 11:34:32 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: SeekAndFind

I would suspect someone/some organization is offering her more $$$ for her ‘story’, if she can nullify the previous deal.


26 posted on 03/12/2018 11:34:40 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SeekAndFind

Well sweety, you owe a Million dollars now if you read the contract you signed.

Well, you did read it, right?


27 posted on 03/12/2018 11:35:31 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: SeekAndFind

Ok, she’s a pawn, hope she gets as much out of it as she did her career as a whore.

Let’s all guess the salacious details. Big whoop. It’s the same activity mammals the world over do. No president has EVER cheated on his wife before the presidency. That is so shocking.

I am so happy the lefties get orgasmic over PDJT’s affair. How quaint. The rest of us don’t care. There are way more important things to do.


28 posted on 03/12/2018 11:35:52 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: sphinx

>>But still, it would be nice to have a president who didn’t need to pay hush money to porn stars.

Like El Yeb!?


29 posted on 03/12/2018 11:35:57 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: goldstategop
You made the agreement and don’t keep it, well that says a lot more about you than the man you’re suing.

Well... we've already determined what she is. Now we're haggling about price.

30 posted on 03/12/2018 11:37:07 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: SeekAndFind

So what?

Just like Bill Clinton diddling interns, or raping women, that feminazis and democrats didn’t care about, I don’t care what Stormy says or thinks.

And of course, I don’t care what the democrats (and their media) say or think.

5.56mm


31 posted on 03/12/2018 11:37:40 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m inclined to not care about whatever she says. She’d be saying they had an affair whether they did or not, both before the election and now.


32 posted on 03/12/2018 11:37:51 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: sphinx

But still, it would be nice to have a president who didn’t need to pay hush money to porn stars.


Men with big egos love sex and sometimes not only with one woman.

Find a man with a small ego who would be willing to step up, have everything about him smeared, his entire family’s lives put in danger, to fight for the trapped and enslaved American people, and for the constitution to be restored.


33 posted on 03/12/2018 11:37:55 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SeekAndFind

Two words: Bill Clinton

Translation: We don’t care.


34 posted on 03/12/2018 11:37:57 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Gahanna Bob
Someone must have told her they would pay more than $130k for her story.

Gloria All-Red?

35 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:07 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I thought she said the deal wasn't legal since Trump hadn't signed the agreement. Now she wants to give the money back? She can't seem to make up her lying mind, and grasping at straws because she hasn't gotten enough mileage from her claim yet.

Frankly, if she'd actually had a relationship with a famous, wealthy man, then accepting a mere $130,000 to keep her mouth shut about it only shows that it wasn't true to begin with. Someone like her would have demanded far more than that if it had actually occurred.

36 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:31 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: kabar

Exactly. She is being paid by someone . She is being paid enough to make it worth her while, to give back $130K and perhaps now be a millionaire, for all we know.


37 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:44 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump’s lawyer should take the money back and let her say whatever she wants. Any damage is pretty much already done - people have already decided to think what they want. I’d call her bluff.


38 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:49 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Bulwyf

“Yes, who’s funding her?”

Bill Clinton!


39 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:55 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: SeekAndFind

I would be disappointed to know Trump had relations with her, but I would still support him. There would have been consent involved.

My real concern is the insult to Melania.

I believe her to be a good person, but then I have no way of knowing that either.

This Stormy Daniels is a lower life form. To think this is how low you would have to wallow to make money.


40 posted on 03/12/2018 11:38:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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