Donald Trump’s legal team has attempted to persuade Stormy Daniels to sign a new confidentiality agreement, according to a report filed by Rachel Maddow with just 20 days until the election.
The liberal pundit appeared on MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes’ show Wednesday night and aired a recording of a call between Daniels speaking with his attorney, Clark Brewster.
“They want to make some kind of deal where they’ll silence you,” Brewster says. ‘There’s no way, no damn way. I can’t let you do that.’
The discussion relates to negotiations between the two sides over legal fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars that Daniels owed Trump after her failed 2018 defamation lawsuit against him.
Even though Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, made enough money through a Gofundme page to pay her legal fees, her lawyers are alleged to have proposed reducing the amount owed in exchange for a new NDA.
“In the midst of this negotiation to pay off the latest legal settlement between them, Trump is trying to get another hush money deal with Stormy Daniels before this election,” Maddow said, citing the porn star’s lawyers.
Just 20 days before the 2024 election, Rachel Maddow released the explosive news that Donald Trump’s lawyers attempted to sign a new confidentiality agreement with Stormy Daniels.
Maddow believes Trump has “once again demanded that Stormy Daniels sign an agreement not to talk about him, offering to shave thousands of dollars off her bill if she did.”
He also presented an email purportedly between Trump’s lawyer, Harry J. Ross, and Brewster.
‘We do not agree that a payment of $600,000 would fully satisfy all three sentences. However…we can agree to resolve these matters for $600,000 as long as your client agrees in writing not to make public or private statements,’ the email says.
They eventually settled for a little more without signing any kind of agreement, according to the emails.
YoIn response to claims the Trump campaign told Maddow: “These alleged documents were obtained as part of an illegal foreign hacking attack against President Trump and his team.”
‘We are working with authorities to determine the legal repercussions for those likely to commit federal crimes by publishing and using material stolen by… adversaries of the terrorist regime. Ms. Daniels has been held accountable by having to pay President Trump beyond the money she owes him as a result of his wrongdoings.
The liberal pundit appeared on his MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes’ show Wednesday night and said the new talks stem from Daniels’ creation of the Gofundme to help pay legal fees.
Trump’s alleged affair would have occurred while Melania was pregnant with her son Baron
Maddow insists that the emails between Daniels’ lawyers and Trump’s representatives came directly from Daniels herself.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office that prosecuted Trump for bribing Daniels did not comment on Maddow’s findings.
This comes months after Trump was convicted of all 34 felony counts in his successful hush money trial, and a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.
The lawsuit came in April 2018 after Daniels posted a sketch of a man she claims threatened her in Las Vegas in 2011.
Daniels attempted to appeal the decision in 2022, saying his attorney Michael Avenatti filed the lawsuit “without my permission and against my wishes.”
A judge ruled against her, leaving her with Trump’s gargantuan legal fees associated with the case.
According to her, he told her to “leave Trump alone.”
This alleged threat would have occurred years after Daniels claimed that she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, owed Trump $600,000 in legal fees in connection with her failed 2018 defamation lawsuit.
Maddow included a recording of a call between Daniels speaking with her lawyer, Clark Brewster, as well as emails between Daniels’ lawyers and Trump representatives.
Trump responded on Twitter, calling his claims a “total scam.”
Weeks after he tweeted that rebuke, Daniels sued him in federal court.
In October 2018, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero dismissed the lawsuit, saying Trump’s tweet amounted to a “hyperbolic statement.”
Otero also said Trump’s statement was protected by the first amendment.
He also claimed that Trump’s defense team showed his address to the entire courtroom while testifying in the case.
In his testimony as the prosecution’s star witness, he described the lurid details of their alleged 2006 hotel encounter, which included mentions of condoms, spanking and missionary sex.
She also told the court that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, gave her $130,000 to keep her quiet about the alleged affair, which occurred while Melania Trump was pregnant with her son Baron.
Daniels claims she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 2006.
Trump has denied the matter on dozens of occasions.