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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Trump lawyer sued porn actress for $ 20 million

Por Jade

Michael Cohen, the private lawyer of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit against the porn star Stormy Daniels in which he claims $ 20 million for breaking a pact of silence 20 times, according to The Washington Post. The lawyer also asked the courts that all future proceedings be confidential.

Last Friday, in the court of Los Angeles where his legal battle against the porn actress Stormy Daniels is settled, the lawyers of the US president presented a letter in which they claim that they will claim up to 20 million dollars in compensation for multiple violations of the confidentiality agreement in which Daniels promised never to reveal her alleged sexual affair with Trump.

The brief is presented by lawyer Brent Blakely on behalf of Essential Consultants and Donald Trump, according to Reuters. Essential Consultants LLC is a company incorporated ex profeso in Delaware by the personal lawyer and plumber of Trump, Michael Cohen, a few days before the 2016 elections to channel the payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence.

The response of the legal team, in addition, is the first occasion in which Trump's name is directly involved in the process since it is presented in his name. It is he who demands damages. Trump denies the facts. So far, the entire legal strategy had been developed by Cohen, who has publicly stated that the president was totally aloof from this issue, to the point of saying that he had not even informed Daniels of the payment of the money. Cohen says the money came out of his pocket and was not reimbursed by Trump, his campaign, or his companies.

The porn actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, says she had a sexual affair with Trump between 2006 and 2007. She said in an interview in 2011. Two weeks before the 2016 election, Michael Cohen made her sign an agreement of confidentiality for which she would charge $ 130,000. Given the revelations in the press earlier this year on that agreement, Clifford tried to retell his story. On February 27, Trump's lawyers secretly and unilaterally obtained an arbitration award that reinforces the confidentiality agreement. On March 6, Clifford filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles court demanding the nullity of that agreement. In the lawsuit, she made public the whole story, the text of the agreement, and claimed to have compromising material for Trump.

The counterattack of the president's lawyers this Friday has another side. On behalf of Trump, attorney Charles Harder asks the Superior Court of Los Angeles County for the case to be referred to a federal judge. Harder is the lawyer who took the case of the Hulk Hogan fighter against the Gawker website for publishing a sexual recording of him. The case ended in a multi-million dollar compensation that sent Gawker to bankruptcy.

Clifford's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, interpreted on Twitter that the change of jurisdiction is to have more chances that the case ends in private arbitration. Legal experts consulted in the US media believe that federal judges are more likely to accept that cases be settled in arbitration. The confidentiality agreement between Cohen and Clifford expressly states that any disagreement must be decided in arbitration.

The legal movement of the Trump team comes a day after it is revealed that Clifford recorded an interview with the presenter Anderson Cooper that is scheduled to be broadcast on the 60 Minutes program on March 25.