Thu Apr 6, 2023 – 5:47 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered porn actress Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford to pay former President Donald Trump $121,972 in legal fees related to Trump’s condemnation of her claim that she was threatened for alleging the two had an affair.
Daniels first alleged the 2006 affair in 2011, when Trump was a private citizen. Trump has consistently denied the claim, insisting that “Horse Face … wouldn’t be the one” if he had been inclined to cheat on his wife. Daniels signed a statement in 2018 that the affair “never happened,” but later claimed her attorney and business manager pressured her into recanting.
The allegations resurfaced in 2018, halfway through Trump’s presidency, with the added revelation that Trump attorney Michael Cohen arranged a $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep quiet about it in October 2016, a month before Trump was elected.
That payment is the subject of left-wing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s recent indictment of Trump, which claims the payment was a campaign expenditure not recorded as such. Many have assailed the unprecedented effort to prosecute the former president as legally dubious
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