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'I'm tired of being threatened': Stormy Daniels speaks out on 'The View' - ABC News

posted onApril 18, 2018
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Article snippet: Stormy Daniels isn't letting a $20 million lawsuit stop her from speaking. The adult film star, who says she had a sexual encounter with FBI raid on the office, home and hotel room of President Trump's longtime attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen has admitted he paid Daniels $130,000 in 2016, just weeks before the election. In a statement to ABC News in February, Cohen said it was a private transaction using his "own personal funds" that were paid to Stephanie Clifford, Daniels' legal name. That payment was part of a non-disclosure agreement, and Trump’s legal team filed legal papers in March saying that she has violated the terms of that agreement at least 20 times, which would amount to $20 million in damages based on the agreement’s $1 million penalty clause. Daniels and her attorney Michael Avenatti denied that her trip to the courtroom Monday was a publicity stunt. "I just wanted to make my presence known," she said on “The View.” Daniels reiterated her claim that she was threatened by an unknown man in 2011 who approached her in a parking lot. The man allegedly said her young daughter, who she says was in a car seat at the time, was beautiful and that it would be "a shame if something happened to her mother.” The man then allegedly said Daniels should keep quiet about her 2006 alleged affair with Trump. When she first saw the man in the parking lot before he approached her, she said today, "nothing was alarming about the way he looked.” Wh... Link to the full article to read more

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