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This comes as the watchdog group Common Cause filed revised complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice naming Trump personally as well as Michael Cohen. "I hope they are going to strongly consider it and I hope they are going to accept it," he said. Asked if his client was willing to accept the $1 million penalty to have the 60 Minutes interview air if Cohen doesn't agree to her offer, Avenatti said, "I'm not going to comment on that."Īvenatti has set a deadline of noon Tuesday for Cohen and his lawyer to respond. The agreement Daniels signed in October 2016 says that if an arbitrator determines that there has been a breach, she will be obligated to pay $1 million for each breach. Clifford's recent interview with Anderson Cooper of 60 Minutes from airing publicly." In the letter to Cohen and his lawyer, Avenatti also asks that in exchange for returning the $130,000 neither Cohen nor the president "shall take action, legal or otherwise, aimed at preventing Ms. Last week Daniels sat for an interview with 60 Minutes, which is set to air at a future /U3pf6DHEaf- Michael Avenatti March 8, 2018īuzzFeed News is reporting that lawyers associated with Trump are considering legal action to prevent the interview from airing. Though, nondisclosure agreements are built on the idea of ensuring silence.
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"Our entire democracy is built around the notion of free speech, competing ideas, competing debate and this situation should be no different." "At some point they need to stop the bleeding, I would think," Avenatti said when pressed on why an attorney associated with Trump would accept the offer. It's hard to believe they will accept the offer given the lengths to which Cohen and his legal team have gone to prevent Daniels from talking, including securing a temporary restraining order in arbitration last month. And Cohen and his attorney Larry Rosen have not responded to a request for comment from NPR. Her lawyer's letter says she wants out of it to be able to "(a) speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the President and the attempts to silence her and (b) use and publish any text messages, photos and/or videos relating to the President that she may have in her possession, all without fear of retribution and/or legal liability for damages."Īvenatti says neither Cohen nor his lawyer has yet responded to the letter.
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"She'll return the money and she'll be free to speak, and in turn the president can provide his version of events and we can allow the American people to decide who's telling the truth and who's not."ĭaniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, is currently bound by a nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreement signed in October 2016. It's more than fair," said Avenatti in an interview with NPR.
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Trump, through Cohen and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has denied that there was an affair, which by Daniels' telling took place in 20 when Trump was married and his son Barron was a baby. Trump has never admitted knowledge of the payment to Daniels, which was made by his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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In a letter, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, says Daniels "will pay $130,000 to President Trump by wire transfer, to an account designated by the president" by this Friday. Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress and director who alleges she had a sexual relationship with President Trump more than a decade ago and was paid $130,000 not to talk about it, is offering to give the money back to speak freely.