Porn star Daniels loses bid to question Trump, get quick trial

 

Stormy Daniels, an adult film star and director whose real name is Stephanie Clifford is interviewed by Anderson Cooper of CBS News' 60 Minutes program in early March 2018, in a still image from video provided March 25, 2018. CBSNews/60 MINUTES/Handout via REUTERS.

 

(Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected adult film star Stormy Daniels' request for permission to question Donald Trump and schedule a trial soon in her lawsuit to end her agreement to remain silent about her alleged sexual encounter with the U.S. president.

 

U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles said on Thursday that the request by Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to depose Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen was premature because they had yet to formally request that she arbitrate her claims.

 

The judge said the defendants' eventual response might address some open issues, limiting the need to gather evidence. Daniels had sought a trial as soon as this summer.

 

Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for Daniels, tweeted that the order does "not bode well for the defendants" and suggested "that there is a strong likelihood that the Court will ultimately agree with our requests for discovery and a trial."

 

Cohen and his lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

Daniels wants to end an agreement from October 2016, the month before Trump was elected president, under which she received $130,000 in what she called hush money to keep quiet about a relationship she claimed to have begun with Trump in 2006.

 

According to Daniels, the agreement is void because Trump never signed it, and the $130,000 payment amounted to an illegal campaign contribution.

 

The White House has denied that Trump had sex with Daniels.

 

Avenatti has said he would need no more than two hours each to question Trump and Cohen.

 

Daniels on Monday added Cohen as a defendant in her lawsuit, claiming that he defamed her by suggesting she was a liar.

 

Cohen has said Daniels made defamatory statements about him in an interview broadcast on Sunday on CBS News' "60 Minutes."

 

The White House has also said that Trump has denied having what former Playboy model Karen McDougal has described as a 10-month affair with him, also starting in 2006.

 

(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Additional reporting by Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-03-30

Cor blimey! Two consenting adults of legal age allegedly doin' the horizontal mambo; or not if you listen to President Trump.

Who cares??? So why didn't this golddigger ask Mr Trump what she so urgently needs to know now, when she had the multiple opportunities to do so please? Rhetorical question!

What a nasty piece of cemetry vomit this golddigging gargoyle is - IMHO of course.

1 hour ago, marginline said:

Cor blimey! Two consenting adults of legal age allegedly doin' the horizontal mambo; or not if you listen to President Trump.

Who cares??? So why didn't this golddigger ask Mr Trump what she so urgently needs to know now, when she had the multiple opportunities to do so please? Rhetorical question!

What a nasty piece of cemetry vomit this golddigging gargoyle is - IMHO of course.

Whereas denigration don is a paragon of virtue?

Edited March 30, 20188 yr by Expatthailover

3 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Whereas denigration don is a paragon of virtue?

Sure. I do respect your point Expatthailover, thank you krub; however, he was voted into high office by the United States' electorate and so surely - that fact alone should speak volumes. 

What the world has becoming to? that a call girl, who got amply compensated for a quickie, now turn around with shameless greed in her eyes asking for more, and now want to question the president, i mean, dose this woman has a shame somewhere in her street walking soul or is it all about the money?....

 

Edited March 30, 20188 yr by ezzra

2 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What the world has becoming to? that a call girl, who got amply compensated for a quickie, now turn around with greed in her eyes asking for more, and

want to question the president, i mean, dose this woman has a shame somewhere in her street walking soul or is it all about the money?....

 

Indeed ezzra krub! Thank you so much!!

And just by some monumentally small chance that Ms Stormy Daniels a.k.a. Ms Stephanie Clifford is reading this - "Yes chucky egg; your ass does look too big"!

 

555. Go Stormy Go.

 

Soon they’ll connect the pimples on his ass, and he’s done.

 

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Edited March 30, 20188 yr by RobFord

If she had as many pricks sticking out of her as stuck in her, she'd looked like a porcupine.

1 hour ago, RobFord said:

Soon they’ll connect the pimples on his ass, and he’s done.

First he would would never win a primary.

Then there was no way he would ever be the GOP's nomination.

There was then no path to "270"; so he took a short cut to "304".

Somehow; somehow he wasn't s'posed to be inaugurated.

Then his clear and certain impeachment would be all done by 2017.

Now "pimples on his ass".

Doesn't sound promising.

In fact a second term looks more and more likely - IMHO of course krub.

Yawn...

Most of the court precedence involving Federal claims against a sitting US President were established in the Paula Jones v. William Jefferson Clinton case in which the then President was eventually required to personally give testimony.

Does she not have the right to defend her honour???

 

Not every lady would want to let everybody know they had sex with such a creep... 

Sure. I do respect your point Expatthailover, thank you krub; however, he was voted into high office by the United States' electorate and so surely - that fact alone should speak volumes. 

Yes, it does, about HIS voters.

They saw the con man and they voted for him anyway.

 

 

Headlines should read "Aging Porn Star Desperately Needs Publicity"

There's an awful lot of misogyny evident in the posting stylings of the "trump" defenders.

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10 hours ago, marginline said:

Cor blimey! Two consenting adults of legal age allegedly doin' the horizontal mambo; or not if you listen to President Trump.

Who cares??? So why didn't this golddigger ask Mr Trump what she so urgently needs to know now, when she had the multiple opportunities to do so please? Rhetorical question!

What a nasty piece of cemetry vomit this golddigging gargoyle is - IMHO of course.

If you think this is about a porn star chasing money after being screwed by Trump then you are extremely naïve.  Behind her there will be a large group of people who realise that getting rid of this moronic president is essential and if this is a way to help bring him down then they will.  The whole of this is being orchestrated by lawyers and influential people.

 

I doubt this will do the damage but if it does then I will be raising a glass to Ms Daniels.

Posts removed, including one that has a deliberate misspelling of the president's name.   His name is Trump.  

 

Troll posts removed and one person will be on suspension.  

5 hours ago, dunroaming said:

The whole of this is being orchestrated by lawyers and influential people.

 

You certainly mean liberals and their lawyers.

17 hours ago, marginline said:

Sure. I do respect your point Expatthailover, thank you krub; however, he was voted into high office by the United States' electorate and so surely - that fact alone should speak volumes. 

Being elected, anywhere but particularly in the US, does not confer sainthood, nor does it remove a politician's normal instinct to lie and cheat.

The only real legal issue here may be not who-slept-with-whom but whether the $160K paid to Ms.Daniels one month before the NOV 2016 election is considered a violation of campaign finance regs.