2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients at a forum in West Hollywood, California, but declined to name them. He said he had evidence of the three women’s respective affairs with the president but was ‘not at liberty to share’ it. All three, he said, were paid ‘hush money’ before the 2016 election. Avenatti emerged months ago as a prominent figure in the president’s legal battles, representing Daniels in her legal quest to be freed from a nondisclosure agreement related to a one-night affair she claims to have had with the president. She is also suing the president for defamation over a post to his Twitter account in which he dismissed Daniels’ claim that an unknown man approached her and warned her to ‘leave Trump alone.’ In his tweet, Trump said it was a ‘total con job.’ Trump has denied the affair and denied knowing of the $130,000 payment made by his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to Daniels in the weeks leading up to the election, initially claiming that he only learned of it from media reports.”
-Louis Nelson, “Avenatti now representing 3 women who claim to have been paid hush money by Trump,” Politico, July 27, 2018 7:26 am