MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Amy Kremer, Women for Trump, was so great on @foxandfriends. Brave and very smart, thank you Amy! @AmyKremer” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 28, 2018 6:32 am […]
Category: Women
6/22/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump moved on Friday [6-22-18] to leave an even deeper mark on Republican primary season, boosting a personal ally who is running for governor of Florida and extending political clemency to a former critic, Representative Martha Roby of Alabama, who is in a difficult race for re-election. Ms. Roby has […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model for the rights to her story alleging an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors requesting information from the publisher, […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a request by the adult film actress Stormy Daniels to restart her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. In an order dated Tuesday [6-19-18], U.S. District Judge James Otero said the amount of media attention in […]
6/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen took aggressive steps to collect on a multimillion-dollar debt in October 2016, at the time he was seeking to come up with $130,000 to pay a former adult-film star for agreeing to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump. The debt stemmed from a loan to […]
6/19/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Democrats are banking on a surge of female candidates to help them recapture the House of Representatives this November. But Democrats may not benefit as much as they hope from this dynamic unless their historic roster of female nominees can help the party solve its greatest remaining challenge with female voters. To […]
6/17/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The young women had come from 48 states across the country, yearning for moments of belonging they rarely found at home. Cheyenne Martin, a 19-year-old student at Georgetown University, described being ridiculed by classmates for her desire to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency one day. But this weekend she […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “New York state’s highest court on Thursday [6-14-18] rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest bid to avoid potentially having to answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his television show ‘The Apprentice.’ The state’s Court of Appeals dismissed Trump’s request to halt Summer Zervos’ lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
MELANIA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani told an audience in Israel that he does not think first lady Melania Trump believes that President Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels. ‘She believes her husband, and she doesn’t think it’s true,’ Giuliani said at the ‘Globes’ Capital Market conference in Tel Aviv. The former GOP mayor […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men ‘colluded’ and ‘acted in concert’ to ‘manipulate’ Daniels and to benefit Trump. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A judge ruled Tuesday [6-5-18] that President Donald Trump can be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought last year by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who says Trump kissed and groped her after she appeared on the show. Zervos is one of more than a dozen women who have […]
6/1/2018
DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives. Mr. Avenatti contacted an official in the network of liberal groups led by David Brock, while someone […]
5/30/2018
ABORTION/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT/WOMEN: “Step by methodical step, the Trump administration is remaking government policy on reproductive health — moving to limit access to birth control and abortion and bolstering abstinence-only sex education. Social and religious conservatives praise the administration for promoting ‘a culture of life.’ But women’s-rights activists and some medical experts view the […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]
5/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “hen it comes to President Trump’s legal health and welfare, few recent events have borne as much potential risk as the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last month on Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer. Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, […]
5/25/2018
ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said he is ‘not familiar’ with the Harvey Weinstein case when asked for his reaction to the former Hollywood producer being charged with rape and sex abuse Friday [5-25-18]. Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House that he didn’t ‘know anything about it,’ but added, […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]
5/24/2018
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, filed new paperwork in federal court on Thursday [5-24-18] asking a judge to allow Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump to move forward — the latest move in Avenatti’s legal campaign to depose the President. Avenatti’s request comes several weeks after a California judge […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has postponed to next week a hearing in the case brought by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen to limit prosecutors’ review of documents seized from his home and office. The hearing, which had been scheduled to take place Thursday [5-24-18], is expected to […]
5/23/2018
COURTS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump has asked New York state’s highest court to delay a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his reality television show ‘The Apprentice’ who said he sexually harassed her, claiming immunity and denying the allegations. Trump is challenging a March 20 ruling by Justice Jennifer Schecter of […]
5/18/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump’s fresh acknowledgment this week that he reimbursed his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 in 2017 is raising red flags with ethics experts about why the President withheld information from the public about those payments last year. Trump’s financial disclosure report released on Wednesday [5-16-18] — covering all of […]
5/17/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York appeals court has denied a motion by President Donald Trump’s attorney to stay the Summer Zervos defamation case pending appeal, meaning the gathering of evidence known as ‘discovery’ can move forward as both parties await a ruling on the appeal. Zervos, a former ‘Apprentice’ contestant, filed a lawsuit against […]
5/17/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York state appeals court on Thursday [5-17-18] denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to halt a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his reality TV show ‘The Apprentice’ who accused him of making unwanted sexual advances. In a one-page order, the Appellate Division in Manhattan did not explain […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 for expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to a financial disclosure form released Wednesday [5-16-18]. The document did not explicitly state what the payments were for. But Trump’s lawyers have […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s newly filed financial disclosure notes a payment connected to an adult-film actress who alleged a relationship with him more than a decade ago. The payment is documented as a reimbursement to attorney Michael Cohen of between $100,001 and $250,000 for expenses in 2016. The Wall Street Journal previously […]
5/16/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his attorney Michael Cohen for a payment of at least $100,001 made to a ‘third party’ in 2016, according to ethics disclosures signed by the president that were released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday. Cohen made […]
5/15/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels has raised nearly a half-million dollars to fund her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, relying on contributions from a crowdfunding site. Her lawyer has repeatedly pointed to the public site as evidence that he and his client aren’t bankrolled by Trump’s political foes. But the truth is, no one knows […]
5/11/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, said on Friday [5-11-18] that the company had made a ‘big mistake’ by hiring President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to advise on the telecommunications giant’s deal to buy Time Warner. ‘Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani, who last month joined the team of lawyers representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, resigned from his law firm on Thursday [5-10-18], citing the ‘pressing demands’ of the special counsel probe. Mr. Giuliani said last month that he would take a ‘temporary leave of absence’ from […]
5/10/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “From its origins as a conduit to pay hush money, Essential Consultants LLC has evolved into a nexus in federal investigations buffeting the Trump administration. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, set up the Delaware limited liability company to pay former adult-movie actress Stephanie Clifford, professionally known as Stormy Daniels. […]
5/9/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “After paying off a pornographic film actress and doing other tasks to help his boss win the presidency, Michael D. Cohen was surprised to find that the doors to the White House were mostly closed to him. Mr. Cohen did not land a hoped-for job in President Trump’s administration — he […]
5/9/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Wednesday [5-9-18] he has more evidence of ties between a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the United States and a payment to U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and questioned other companies’ dealings with Cohen’s firm. In two television interviews, Daniels’ attorney, […]
5/9/18
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Treasury Department’s Inspector General is investigating whether confidential financial information related to President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen might have been leaked, IG spokesman Rich Delmar confirmed Wednesday [5-9-18]. The probe was launched after Michael Avenatti, lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels, distributed a document claiming that AT&T, […]
5/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Rachel Crooks, who alleged that Donald Trump kissed her without her consent in 2005 when she was working as a receptionist in Trump Tower, on Tuesday [5-8-18] secured her primary bid for state office in Ohio. Crooks was running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for a seat in the state Legislature. Crooks […]
5/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A shell company that Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business before the Trump administration, according to documents and interviews. Financial records reviewed by […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said Friday [5-4-18] that his lawyer Rudy Giuliani will ‘get his facts straight’ and praised him as a ‘great guy,’ two days after the former New York City mayor stunned the White House and the president’s legal team with remarks about payments to an adult film star […]
5/6/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, reeling after a chaotic first week as President Trump’s lawyer, tried again on Sunday [5-6-18] to straighten out his client’s story. But Mr. Giuliani raised new questions about whether Mr. Trump had paid hush money to other women and suggested the president might invoke the Fifth Amendment to […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/RUDY GUILIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump publicly undermined his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Friday [5-4-18], saying the former New York City mayor had only a loose grasp of the Stormy Daniels business when he spoke about it earlier this week. A clarifying statement from Giuliani issued four hours later did little to illuminate […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump celebrated the National Day of Prayer by announcing a White House initiative that he said would underpin policies recognizing the ‘vital role’ of religion in the country. ‘America is a nation of believers,’ he said. Shortly before the Rose Garden event Thursday [5-3-18], Trump acknowledged reimbursing his personal attorney […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] directly contradicted his earlier statements that he knew of no payment to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump said he paid a monthly retainer to his former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GUILANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump hatched with Rudy Giuliani the high-risk plan to disclose on live television that he had reimbursed his longtime attorney for buying a porn actress’s silence, leaving senior aides in the White House and the rest of his legal team stunned. Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s new legal team made a chaotic debut as Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was tapped recently to be one of the president’s lawyers, potentially exposed his client to legal and political danger by publicly revealing the existence of secret payments to Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer. After […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides are ‘panicking,’ the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels said Thursday [5-3-18] afternoon, and are ‘just making it up as they go along’ as they deal with Trump’s mounting legal challenges. Rudy Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team last month, disclosed Wednesday [5-2-18] […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new law client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link Thursday [5-3-18] between a hush money payment to a porn actress and the potential fallout if her allegations of a tryst with Trump had gone public […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] said his longtime lawyer was reimbursed for a payment he made to a former adult film star to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. The president said the agreement with Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, was made […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 6:00 am […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/3/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The lawyer for one of the women suing President Donald Trump for defamation is seeking recordings of ‘The Apprentice’ from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos filed a lawsuit against Trump in January 2017, in which she alleged that Trump defamed her in 2016 after she said he sexually assaulted her in […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [5-3-18] his personal lawyer was paid back through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, for the $130,000 given to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to stop ‘false and extortionist accusations’ she made about a sexual encounter with him. Trump, who in April told reporters he did […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani’s cable rollout as a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, and the torrent of statements he made Wednesday [5-2-18] night, caught many in the White House offguard and flat-footed, highlighting the continued chaotic nature of the President’s communications strategy. Giuliani told CNN Thursday [5-3-18] he and Trump are […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump reimbursed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer, for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to keep a pornographic film actress from going public before the 2016 election with her story about an affair with Mr. Trump, according to Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of […]
5/1/2018
DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “In any other political environment, headlines about the President of the United States’ alleged affair with a porn star and her bulldog attorney who is hellbent on publicizing the details would be radioactive for the President’s party. But this isn’t any other political environment. As Republicans awkwardly answer questions about Stormy Daniels’ […]
4/30/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stephanie Clifford, the former adult-film actress professionally known as Stormy Daniels, filed a lawsuit on Monday [4-30-18] against President Donald Trump in Manhattan federal court, accusing him of defaming her in a recent tweet. Mr. Trump posted the tweet on April 18, in response to a sketch Ms. Clifford released of a […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump distanced himself from his longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Thursday [4-26-18], saying that a federal criminal investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings and had nothing to do with his legal representation of the president. The president acknowledged that Mr. Cohen represents him in connection with […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Thursday 4-26-18] that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is representing him with regards to legal matters involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with Trump. On Cohen, the President both solidified his link with Cohen on the […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for President Donald Trump, filed court papers Wednesday [4-25-18] indicating he would assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination regarding his involvement in a hush money deal involving porn star Stormy Daniels and the President. Cohen cited FBI raids of his residence, office and hotel […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump said Thursday [4-26-18] that attorney Michael Cohen ‘represented me’ by cutting a deal with porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, after the president previously said he didn’t know about the ‘hush money’ payment. Trump also tried to distance himself from Cohen, who is currently under federal criminal investigation related […]
4/20/2018
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge on Friday [4-20-18] signaled possible shortcomings in a request by Donald Trump’s personal lawyer to delay adult-film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit over her alleged affair with the U.S. president, but stopped short of putting it on hold. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued last month to […]
4/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in California said Friday [4-20-18] that he needed to hear from President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen directly before deciding whether to issue a stay in a civil lawsuit involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels wants to void a contract she signed days before the 2016 general […]
4/18/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER/WOMEN: “President Trump turned to Twitter early on Wednesday [4-18-18] to dismiss the sketch of the man a pornographic actress claims threatened her years ago on his behalf. It was just the second time the president weighed in on the subject after weeks of frenzied news media coverage. The president mocked the sketch, […]
4/18/2018
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 […]
4/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump. The settlement agreement, reached on Wednesday [4-18-18], ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and […]
4/18/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! https://t.co/9Is7mHBFda” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2018 5:08 AM […]
4/17/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels released a composite sketch on Tuesday [4-17-18] of the man she alleges threatened her in 2011 and is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can identify the perpetrator. The disclosure of the drawing and the announcement of the monetary reward on ABC’s ‘The View’ mark yet another theatrical twist […]
4/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer whose offices and home were raided last week will ask a judge to limit federal prosecutors’ ability to review seized documents at a hearing which adult film star Stormy Daniels is expected to attend. Michael Cohen, who prosecutors revealed last week is under criminal […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald J. Trump asked Director James B. Comey of the F.B.I. to investigate and knock down a lurid but unverified report that placed Mr. Trump years earlier in a Moscow hotel suite with prostitutes, explaining to Mr. Comey that the fantastic story was untrue and was painful and distressing to his […]
4/13/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels argued in a court hearing on Friday [4-13-18] that materials seized by federal investigators from U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer may concern his client, who claims the president slept with her. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she […]
4/12/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she’d had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid’s parent made a $30,000 payment to a less famous individual: a former doorman at one of the real estate mogul’s New York City […]
4/11/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “FBI agents who raided the home, office and hotel of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer sought communications that Trump had with attorney Michael Cohen and others regarding the infamous ‘Access Hollywood’ tape that captured Trump making lewd remarks about women a month before the election, according to sources familiar with the matter. […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday [4-9-18] were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the publisher of The National Enquirer’s role in silencing one of the women, several people […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday [4-9-18] were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump as well as information related to the role of the publisher of The National Enquirer in silencing one […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s flagship company, for records relating to a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film actress as part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request came in connection with […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. on Monday [4-9-18] raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, […]
4/9/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels, the porn star who alleges to have had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, said in a new court filing Monday [4-9-18] that she would not have signed a hush agreement in 2016 had she known that Trump himself was not a party to it…Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, […]
4/6/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump wants to be a provocateur again. Why else would he bring up his specious and repeatedly disproven claim that millions voted illegally in California, where he was walloped by Hillary Clinton? And why would he intentionally recall and brag about one of the single most controversial things he’s ever […]
4/6/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [4-5-18] he did not know about a $130,000 payment made to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels for her silence, his first public acknowledgment of the scandal surrounding an alleged sexual affair that has plagued him for months. ‘No,’ a terse Trump told reporters aboard Air […]
4/5/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday [4-5-18], the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress. Their ranks will continue to grow in the weeks ahead, with filing deadlines still to […]
4/4/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The attorney who represented a porn star and Playboy model in deals that buried their allegations of sexual encounters with Donald Trump in exchange for six-figure payouts said the ‘whole truth’ about the now-public scandal has not been told. In exclusive interviews with CNN, attorney Keith M. Davidson said he believes […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump and a company affiliated with him filed court papers on Monday [4-2-18] seeking to force the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford to raise her disputes through private arbitration, not lawsuits. Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her claims of an affair […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “When Donald J. Trump was running for president, he promised to ‘open up our libel laws.’ No one quite knew what he meant. Last month, Mr. Trump started to make good on his campaign pledge. But he did so inadvertently — as a libel defendant on the losing side of a decision […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for President Donald Trump has begun the process of appealing last month’s decision by a New York judge to allow a defamation case brought by former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos to proceed. The lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, filed the notice of appeal in New York County Supreme Court on Sunday […]
2/29/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump so far has weathered accusations and hot mic admissions of sexual assault. But even as the president denies Stormy Daniels’ account of their alleged affair more than a decade ago, calling it ‘FAKE NEWS,’ her claims have stayed in the media’s eye for weeks now. Her appearance Sunday on ’60 […]
3/29/2018
ARIZONA/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “With allegations of sexual misconduct swirling around President Trump, Debbie Lesko — a Republican candidate for Congress — sat down recently and clicked on ’60 Minutes.’ There was Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress known as Stormy Daniels, saying that she had hidden a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump out of […]
3/29/2018
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in California put a temporary stop Thursday [3-29-18] to efforts by Stormy Daniels’ attorney to depose President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen over a $130,000 payout from Cohen to the porn star before the 2016 election. Judge S. James Otero of the US District Court […]
3/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “An attorney for Stormy Daniels filed a motion Wednesday [3-28-18] seeking to question President Donald Trump and his attorney under oath about a pre-election payment to the porn actress aimed at keeping her quiet about an alleged tryst with Trump. If successful, it would be the first deposition of a […]
3/28/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused to answer whether President Donald Trump was aware of a $130,000 payment made by his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to porn star Stormy Daniels at Wednesday’s White House press briefing…Sanders has claimed she has answered questions surrounding Daniels and the lawsuit ‘extensively’ but the […]
3/28/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump, the man who has come to love holding court on television and relished the art of the photo op, has remained out of sight for much of this week as allegations about a sexual relationship with a porn star play out on national television. Trump has not held a […]
3/28/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Voters believe adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. They believe her claim that she and Donald Trump had sex before he ran for president, and that Trump has been unfaithful to his wife. Only one-third think the president is honest. More than half think he has low morals. But a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, […]
3/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Porn star Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit for defamation on Monday against President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen. The suit, filed by her lawyer Michael Avenatti in California, came a day after CBS aired a tell-all interview with Daniels regarding an affair she alleges she had with Trump more than […]
3/26/2018
WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “After 61 weeks in the White House, President Trump has found two people he won’t attack on Twitter: Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. The verbose commander in chief has posted more than 2,900 times on Twitter since taking office, using the term “FAKE NEWS” to describe everything from the Russia inquiry and […]
3/26/2018
WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stormy Daniels is a ratings blockbuster. CBS’s “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday [3-25-18] night featuring the pornographic film actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, garnered the highest ratings for the program in almost a decade. It drew 22 million viewers, according to Nielsen, more than the much-hyped recent telecasts for the […]
3/26/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “When Representative Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania announced on Sunday [3-25-18] that he would join more than 40 other congressional Republicans not seeking re-election in November, he left no doubt about the reason: President Trump’s conduct made it impossible to talk about anything else. Were he running, Mr. Costello said in an interview, […]
3/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former adult-movie star Stephanie Clifford said she accepted $130,000 in 2016 to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with now-President Donald Trump because she feared for her family’s safety. In a televised interview on ’60 Minutes’ that aired Sunday [3-25-18], Ms. Clifford said she was threatened by a man in […]
3/23/2018
LEGAL,TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The question now is whether President Donald Trump can hold his tongue — or his tweets — amid a gathering storm of televised allegations and court gambits about his sexual conduct. Stunning comments in an exclusive CNN interview by former Playboy model Karen McDougal on Thursday [3-23-18] put the unusual seeming vow […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement restricting her ability to speak, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships… The […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York judge on Tuesday [3-20-18] ruled that President Donald Trump must face a defamation suit brought by a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who accused him in 2016 of making unwanted sexual advances. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos in state court in Manhattan in January […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels was ‘truthful about having unprotected vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump in July 2006,’ according to a polygraph test report from 2011. The report states that the ‘probability of deception was measured to be less than 1%.’ It was given to CNN by Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ attorney and contains three pertinent questions: […]
3/16/2018
LEGAL/WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A porn actress who said she had sex with Donald Trump before he became president has been threatened with physical harm, her attorney said Friday [3-16-18]. Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has been seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election in order […]