As has been reported in the press for weeks, Michael Cohen and Donald Trump want Stormy Daniels to live up to the contract (called a nondisclosure agreement or NDA) that she signed with Trump. Â
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But Daniels doesn’t want to live up to the agreement now and she is saying she doesn’t have to because Trump never signed the contract.  Cohen, who is Trump’s personal attorney, predictably disagrees with that assertion by the adult film actress, writer and director. So she filed a lawsuit to void the agreement and allow her to speak openly about her sexual relationship in 2006 and 2007 with the famous man who would someday become President of the United States.
Under the terms of the NDA Daniels was to keep her mouth shut, and she was allegedly paid $130,000 to do so. Without the agreement and the payment Daniels would have gotten a lot of publicity announcing her affair with Trump just weeks before the November 2016 election.
Some of the legal intrigue was settled today as a hearing date at a court in Los Angeles. Trump’s lawyers and Daniels’ lawyers are now scheduled to face off at a hearing on July 12th. Â
According to the court papers which were published on Wednesday and obtained by CNN Daniels will go to court on July 12 in her bid to dissolve the NDA agreement which is stopping her from discussing the affair she says she had with President Donald Trump while his wife Melania was home with their new baby.
Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti filed a lawsuit just last week attempting to void the contract as well as the $130,000 settlement that was agreed to by the parties just a week before the November 2016 presidential election won by Trump.Â
Subsequently, Daniels has offered to return the $130,000 in exchange for Trump allowing her to be free to “speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the president and the attempts to silence her.â€
According to a letter Avenatti sent to Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen she also wants to be allowed to publish photographs, text messages, and videos involving her affair with the president.
“I think it’s time for her to tell her story and for the public to decide who’s telling the truth,†Avenatti said a few days ago.
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