Stormy Daniels payment by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was related to campaign


Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape reportedly triggered his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to pay for Stormy Daniels's silence.

Cohen at first did not want to deal with adult film star Daniels and her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday citing an unnamed person familiar with the matter. But a day after the Access Hollywood tape came out in October 2016 Cohen contacted a representative of Daniels’ for a deal.

According to the report, federal prosecutors believe Cohen made the $130,000 deal with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in order to protect his client’s chances in the 2016 general election.

Last month, Cohen was reportedly willing to tell the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign that the president knew about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-connected lawyer in advance, according to CNN.


https://www.newsweek.com/stormy-cohen-access-hollywood-trump-1077851

Nope.