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Did Cohen/Trump Pay-off Four of Stormy Daniels Friends?
During the closing days of the 2016 Presidential election, candidate Hillary Clinton, after her campaign had been briefly stalled by a publicly disclosed FBI investigation, again was gaining momentum.
At this same time, candidate Donald Trump was reeling from the infamous “grab women by the…,” you know what tape.
Up pops Stephanie Gregory Clifford, also known as the adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Clifford wants to go public with intimate details of her alleged dealings with candidate trump.
But Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has other plans. Fearing that Clifford’s disclosure would derail Trump’s chance at winning the General Election in a few weeks, Cohen devised a plan, either on his own, or in concert with others, to buy Clifford’s silence.
Cohen enters into negotiations with Clifford’s lawyer, Keith M. Davidson,to seal her mouth into infinity. Their negotiations resulted in a “Confidential Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release; Assignment of Copyrights and Non-Disparagement Agreement. Should Clifford breach the terms of this agreement, she would have to pay Trump One Million Dollars for each such breach in liquidated damages.
According to this document Daniels would release Trump from “ damage claims including but not limited to tort claims proximately causing injury…
