President Trump has ordered a California court to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ $ 44,100 for her legal fees after she filed the president over a non-disclosure agreement to keep her quiet about her previous affair.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Broadbelt ruled that Daniels won her case against Trump over the agreement she signed 11 days before the 2016 presidential election – and that Trump was required to pay her fees.
Former presidential lawyer Michael Cohen approached Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, and asked her to sign the NDA. He paid her $ 130,000 to keep quiet about an affair the two had between 2006 and 2007.
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But in March 2018, Clifford filed a lawsuit against the president, in an attempt to overthrow the NDA, claiming it was invalid because Trump never signed it.
Trump claimed he did not know about the hefty money paid by Cohen, who in February 2018 said he was paying Daniels out of his own pocket. He added that the payment was perfectly legal because it did not come from the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign – although he notably did not say whether Trump ever repaid him.
“The payment to Ms. Clifford was legal, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign spend by anyone,” Cohen said in a statement.
During an Air Force One interview, Trump said “No” when asked if he knew about the payments Cohen made. Then he said he also did not know where Cohen got the money for the hush payment.
One month later, Trump and his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said that Trump had in fact paid Cohen back.
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Daniels’ suit never made it to trial. It was dismissed on the grounds that neither party was silent on the NDA, and Trump’s lawyers argued that they did not technically win the case, so they would not pay their legal fees.
But Broadbelt disagreed in his statement Monday, which put Daniels’ lawyers online Friday.
Trump’s lawyers also claimed that the president was never actually a part of the NDA, but Broadbelt ruled that there was enough evidence to prove that the name “David Dennison,” was a pseudonym for Donald Trump.
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Daniels took to Twitter on Friday to say “Yup! Another win. ”
The White House could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
