The Wall Street Journal‘s Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo reported this afternoon that just before the November 2016 election Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen “arranged” a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels (actual name: Stephanie Clifford) in order to keep her from yappity-yap-yapping about a one-off sexual encounter with future President Trump ten years earlier, or in July 2006.
The Journal reports that Clifford had planned to spill the beans with Good Morning America not long before the 11.16 Presidential election, but Trump attorney Michael Cohen stepped in and euphemistically said, “Okay, honey, here’s the money so no more funny with the GMA guys,” or words to that effect.
Trump and Clifford apparently enjoyed each other’s company after meeting at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
If late Full Metal Jacket screenwriter Michael Herr had written the Trump-Clifford golf-course scene, it would have gone something like “Hey, big fat billionaire…me so hohhrny…me do fucky sucky boom boom long time…you like me but you also pay $130K ten years later when I shake you down…me so hohhrny!”
Here’s another angle on the story (“Porn Star: Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Invited Me to Their Hotel Room”) from The Daily Beast‘s Marlow Stern and Aurora Snow, posted today at 4 pm Pacific.