MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported in on host Chris Hayes’ present Wednesday evening to interrupt information of a brand new scheme by Donald Trump’s legal professionals to get grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to remain quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with the Republican nominee for president.
Daniels nonetheless owed Trump greater than half 1,000,000 {dollars} in authorized charges stemming from her failed defamation case in opposition to the convicted felon in 2018. In accordance with Maddow, the negotiations on the precise quantity owed by Daniels appears to have created a brand new alternative for Trump’s minions to try to try and quiet the grownup movie star as soon as once more.
Maddow explains:
So the way in which this goes is, ‘Hey, we think she owes $650,000.’
‘Okay, we’ll take $620,000, if she also signs an NDA.’
‘No, to the NDA.’
‘Okay, fine. I’ve spoken to Trump. Then it’s going to be $635,000.’ Stormy‘s lawyer tells us, they lastly settled on $627,500, which is what Stormy paid.
Daniels says she believes she is being quieted regardless by one thing of an invisible hand. “Since Miss Daniels refused to sign this new NDA for Trump, she tells us that she believes her social media and online presence has been sort of mysteriously torpedoed,” Maddow stated. “I can tell you that at least one club promoting one of her recent stand-up comedy shows has expressed similar concerns, and we are looking into it now using a lot of different tactics and techniques, talking to a lot of different sources. We may have more reporting on that part of it in the days ahead.”
Maddow defined that each one her info for the story got here straight from paperwork offered by and interviews with Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. When she went to Trump and his legal professionals for remark, Newsweek reported that “Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung advised MSNBC the ‘purported documents were attained as part of an illegal foreign hacking attack against President Trump and his team.’”
Maddow noticed this as merely a distraction. MSNBC additionally reached out to the New York District Lawyer’s workplace in regards to the case and so they had no remark. Trump himself has denied any sexual involvement with Daniels.
We’ll keep tuned!
Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data in reference to the hush cash funds he made to Daniels within the run-up to the 2016 election. His sentencing has been delayed till after the 2024 election.