Report: Porn star had year-long affair with Donald Trump
Slate magazine editor in chief Jacob Weisberg claims porn star Stormy Daniels told him she began a year-long affair with Donald Trump in 2006.
“Daniels told me she’d gone to Trump’s hotel room after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in 2006. There they’d begun a sexual relationship, which continued for nearly a year,” Weisberg wrote in his article, “They’d met in New York and more than once in Los Angeles. In early 2007, Trump had invited her to a party to promote Trump Vodka, where she was photographed. He’d also invited her to his Miss USA pageant that year.”
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer brokered a $130,000 payment to Daniels to prevent her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
The newspaper reports Trump met Stephanie Clifford, whose goes by the name Stormy Daniels in films, at a golf event in 2006 – a year after Trump’s marriage to his wife, Melania. According to the Journal’s report, Clifford began talking with ABC News in the fall of 2016 for a story involving an alleged relationship with Trump, but reached a $130,000 deal a month before the election, which prevented her from going public.
Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen arranged for the payment through Clifford’s lawyer, Keith Davidson, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Clifford had also been in discussions with the online magazine Slate, The New York Times reported Friday. Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, told the Times that Clifford had told him she had an affair with Trump.
In a statement to the Journal, Cohen did not address his role in negotiating the supposed payment but said Trump denies any such relationship with Clifford. Clifford has previously denied an alleged relationship with Trump. Cohen also sent the Journal a statement – signed by “Stormy Daniels” – in which the actress denied receiving “hush money” from Trump.
On Friday afternoon, the White House issued a statement calling the Journal’s story “old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.”
Cohen also accused the Journal of perpetuating “a false narrative for over a year.”
Just days before the 2016 election, the Journal published a story stating that the National Enquirer – run by David Pecker, a fervid supporter of Trump – had paid $150,000 to silence former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal about a sexual relationship she allegedly had with Trump a decade ago.
