On Wednesday, Rachel Maddow reported that The Felon Guy offered a financial incentive to adult film star Stormy Daniels if she agreed to keep quiet about him, their affair, his mushroom, and all issues relating to them, even though that relationship became the center of the hush money payments, which ended up the subject of a New York criminal trial. In May, a New York jury convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the payments.
In a case separate from the hush money trial, Daniels was ordered to pay for Trump’s legal fees after she lost a defamation suit she filed against him. About two months after the hush money trial, Trump’s lawyer told Daniels’ representative that The Felon Guy would agree to a lower payment if she agreed not to make any disparaging comments about Trump.
“We disagree that a payment of $620,000 would be in full satisfaction of the three judgments,” Trump’s lawyers said in a July letter obtained by Maddow from Daniels’ lawyer. “However, we can agree to settle these matters for $620,000, provided that your client agrees in writing to make no public or private statements related to any alleged past interactions with President Trump, or defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his businesses and/or any affiliates or his suitability as a candidate for President,” the letter continued.
Daniels’ attorney declined the proposal, Maddow reported. Daniels’ lawyer told MSNBC that they ultimately settled on $627,500 but she did not agree to remain silent.
The Felon Guy’s campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, claimed the documents Rachel referred to:
“....were attained as part of an illegal, foreign hacking attack against President Trump and his team.”
“We are working with authorities to determine the legal repercussions for those likely committing federal offenses by posting and utilizing stolen material by terror regime adversaries,” he continued. “Ms. Daniels has been held to account by having to pay President Trump over and above the money she owes to him as a result of her wrongdoings.”
Ms. Maddow did not obtain these documents from a ‘hack;’ Stormy Daniels’ attorney gave them to her. Watch below:
