Article snippet: The White House on Wednesday denied that MORE had an affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is aggressively pursuing legal avenues to free herself from a contract that prohibits her from talking about their alleged relationship. “The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a White House briefing. “It has already been won in arbitration.” Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has acknowledged paying Daniels — whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford — $130,000 to not discuss her claims of an affair with Trump. The White House on Wednesday pointed to an arbitration hearing that took place in a Los Angeles court in late February. Sanders said that Trump's lawyer won the arbitration and that the judge ruled the nondisclosure agreement with Daniels to be binding. But Daniels's lawyers filed a grievance in court this week claiming that Cohen had “surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding” against her without providing the notice of the proceeding or “basic due process.” Daniels does not dispute that she signed a nondisclosure agreement and accepted the money from Trump’s lawyer. But her lawyers say that Cohen nullified the terms of their agreement by acknowledging publicly that he had paid her to keep quiet. They also say that Trump never signed the contract and that since he’s party to the agreement, it is not binding. “Mr. ... Link to the full article to read more