Stormy Daniels sues Trump, and the hush-money mess gets even more expensive
Stormy Daniels filed a defamation suit against Donald Trump after he publicly attacked her credibility, turning a crude damage-control strategy into another round of legal and political pain. The filing kept the hush-money story active, forced Trump to keep defending a saga he had hoped to bully away, and added another courtroom front to a scandal already shadowed by the FBI raid on Michael Cohen earlier in the month.
First recorded Apr 30, 2018·Meaningfully updated Apr 30, 2018
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Stormy Daniels sues Trump, and the hush-money mess gets even more expensive
Stormy Daniels filed a defamation suit against Donald Trump after he publicly attacked her credibility, turning a crude damage-control strategy into another round of legal and political pain. The filing kept the hush-money story active, forced Trump to keep defending a saga he had hoped to bully away, and added another courtroom front to a scandal already shadowed by the FBI raid on Michael Cohen earlier in the month.
Stormy Daniels filed a defamation suit against Donald Trump after he publicly attacked her credibility, turning a crude damage-control strategy into another round of legal and political pain. The filing kept the hush-money story active, forced Trump to keep defending a saga he had hoped to bully away, and added another courtroom front to a scandal already shadowed by the FBI raid on Michael Cohen earlier in the mont…
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