2016 ELECTION/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump be transferred to a California federal court. Daniels, an adult film actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, offered her consent on Wednesday [8-8-18] to transfer the lawsuit despite having previously opposed the move by Trump’s lawyers. New York Judge Jesse Furman granted the request to move the case on Wednesday. Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told CNN on Thursday [8-9-18] that he and his client agreed to move the case to California because they ‘determined that it would allow us to proceed with a deposition of Mr. Trump more expeditiously and also likely result in a much faster trial.’ Daniels is also suing Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, over the legality of a 2016 hush agreement in which she was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, which he denies. In a CBS ’60 Minutes’ interview in March, Daniels alleged that weeks after she had agreed to sell her affair story to a magazine in 2011, she was confronted by an unknown man who approached her and her baby daughter in a parking lot and said, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.'”
–Maegan Vazquez and Athena Jones, “Stormy Daniels defamation lawsuit against Trump transferred to California,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 9, 2018 10:50 am