Trump's porn star scandal now has its own email drama

Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said in February that neither Trump the presidential candidate nor Trump the businessman had anything to do with the $130,000 that Cohen paid to Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, a few weeks before the 2016 election.

But an email obtained by NBC News shows that Cohen used his Trump Organization email to transfer the funds to a Manhattan bank that would later be used to guarantee the silence of the ex-porn star, who had an affair with Trump around the time his son Barron was born, in 2006, and into 2007. Cohen has claimed that he used his own money (not Trump’s) to pay Clifford.

"I think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of Mr. Cohen and the White House relating to the source of the monies paid to Ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her," Michael Avenatti, an attorney representing Clifford, told NBC News. "We smell smoke."

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Clifford is suing to get out of her nondisclosure agreement by claiming that “David Dennison” — Trump’s code name — never signed the hush document. Clifford already gave a lengthy account of her time with Trump to InTouch magazine back in 2011, before she signed the NDA.

“The sex was textbook generic,” InTouch quoted Clifford saying in 2011. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please don’t try to pay me.’ And then I remember thinking, ‘But I bet if he did, it would be a lot.’”

Clifford claimed to InTouch that Trump didn’t use a condom when he cheated on his wife, first lady Melania Trump, with her.

Cover image: Adult film actress/director Stormy Daniels attends the 2018 Adult Video News Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)