2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump, confronting legal threats on multiple sides, sought on Wednesday [4-18-18] to discredit a pornographic actress alleging a sexual encounter with him and investigators examining whether his campaign worked with Russia to sway the 2016 election, saying both were dealing in fake allegations. Mr. Trump turned to Twitter early Wednesday to deny the claim by Stephanie Clifford, the actress also known as Stormy Daniels who has said she had an affair with him in 2006, that Mr. Trump dispatched a man to physically threaten her years ago. The president called a composite sketch of the man released on Tuesday [4-17-18] by Ms. Clifford’s lawyer ‘a total con job,’ marking only the second time he has weighed in on the subject after weeks of frenzied news media coverage…His tweet accompanied a post from another Twitter user, who said the man looked like Ms. Clifford’s former husband. In a news conference later in the day, Mr. Trump again referred to the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, into Russia’s election interference and whether the president has obstructed justice as a ‘hoax.'”
-Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Attacks Stormy Daniels, and Russia Inquiry, Too,” The New York Times online, April 18, 2018