By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-17 06:47:11 | Updated at 2024-10-17 09:15:16
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Donald Trump's legal team has attempted to persuade Stormy Daniels to sign up to a new non-disclosure agreement, according to a report dropped by Rachel Maddow with just 20 days to go until the election.
The liberal pundit appeared on MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes' show on Wednesday night and aired a recording of a call between Daniels conferring with her lawyer, Clark Brewster.
'They want to cut some kind of deal where they silence you,' Brewster says. 'There's no way, no f***ing way. I can't let you do that.'
The discussion relates to negotiations between the two sides over legal fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars that Daniels owed Trump after her failed 2018 defamation suit against him.
Despite Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, earning enough money through a Gofundme page to pay the legal fees, it is claimed his lawyers proposed to lower the amount owed in exchange for a fresh NDA.
'In the midst of this negotiation over paying off the last legal settlement between them, Trump is trying to get another hush money deal with Stormy Daniels ahead of this election,' Maddow said, citing lawyers for the porn star.
Just 20 days before the 2024 election , Rachel Maddow dropped bombshell news that lawyers for Donald Trump attempted to enter a new non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels
Maddow believes that Trump has 'once again demanded that Stormy Daniels sign on to an agreement not to talk about him, offering to knock thousands of dollars off her bill if she did it.'
She also produced an email allegedly between Trump attorney Harry J. Ross and Brewster.
'We disagree that a payment of $600,000 would be in full satisfaction of the three judgments. However ... we can agree to settle these matters for $600,000 provided that your client agrees in writing to make no public or private statements,' the email says.
They eventually settled on a deal of slightly more without signing any sort of agreement, according to the emails.
In response to the claims the Trump campaign told Maddow: 'These purported documents 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. 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.'
The liberal pundit appeared on MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes' show Wednesday night and said the new talks stem from the Gofundme Daniels' set up to help pay legal fees
Trump's alleged affair would have happened while Melania was pregnant with son Baron
Maddow insists that the emails between Daniels' lawyers and Trump's representatives came straight from Daniels herself.
The Manhattan district attorney's office that prosecuted Trump over hush money to Daniels had no comment on Maddow's findings.
This comes months after Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts in his blockbuster hush money trial, a Manhattan jury finding him guilty of falsifying business records.
The lawsuit came about in April 2018 after Daniels released a sketch of a man she said threatened her in Las Vegas in 2011.
Daniels tried to appeal the decision in 2022, saying that her lawyer Michael Avenatti filed the suit 'without my permission and against my wishes.'
A judge ruled against her, leaving her on the hook for Trump's gargantuan legal fees associated with the case.
According to her, he told her to 'leave Trump alone.'
This alleged threat would have occurred years after Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, owed Trump $600,000 in legal fees in connection to her failed 2018 defamation suit
Maddow included a recording of a call between Daniels conferring with her lawyer, Clark Brewster as well as emails between Daniels' attorneys and Trump's representatives
Trump responded on Twitter, calling her claims a 'total con job'.
Weeks after he tweeted that rebuke, Daniels sued him in federal court.
In October 2018, the US District Judge S. James Otero threw out the suit, saying Trump's tweet amounted to a 'hyperbolic statement.'
Otero also said Trump's statement was protected under the first amendment.
She also claimed the Trump defense team showed her address to the entire courtroom while she testified in the case.
In her testimony as the star witness for the prosecution, she described the lurid details of their alleged 2006 hotel encounter, which included mention of condoms, spanking and missionary sex.
She also told the court Michael Cohen, Trump's former 'fixer,' gave her $130,000 to keep her quiet about the alleged affair, which would have happened while Melania Trump was pregnant with their son Baron.
Daniels claims she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 2006.
Trump has denied the affair on dozens of occasions.
