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Stormy Daniels Sues Trump for Defamation, After Tweet

HeadlineMay 01, 2018

Adult film star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Trump after he attacked her on Twitter, insinuating that she lied about the man who threatened her in 2011, telling her to “leave Trump alone.” Last month, after a sketch of the man was released, Trump tweeted, “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Clifford says she had an affair with Trump in 2006, and she has also sued Trump to get out of a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement, paid by Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen only days before the 2016 election.

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