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Back in 2018, multiple reports revealed that the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about their 2006 affair. According to The Wall Street Journal, the hush money payoff was conducted in October 2016, a week before the controversial election. In response to the report, Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen slammed the allegations in a statement to the publication. “This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client,” he said. “You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year.” A month later, Cohen admitted to making the payment, but refuted the claims that he was reimbursed, which ended up being proven as a lie. “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment,” he told CBS News in 2018
While Daniels initially accepted the $130,000 payment, she later offered to pay it back so she could speak freely about their aforementioned affair. “This has never been about the money. It has always been about Ms. Clifford being allowed to tell the truth,” Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti said in a 2018 statement to NBC News. “The American people should be permitted to judge for themselves who is shooting straight with them and who is misleading them. Our offer seeks to allow this to happen.”
