The President and the Porn Star was always going to be TV gold, although it might have been easier viewing were it a House of Cards subplot. On Sunday night, CBS broadcast an interview with Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had sex with Donald Trump months after his son Baron was born in 2006 and who, 11 days before the election, was allegedly paid $130,000 by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to remain silent about their affair.
In what was the first time that Daniels had spoken publicly about her relationship with Trump since his election, she told the CBS 60 Minutes anchor, Anderson Cooper, that she had been threatened, and had kept her silence out of fear for her own safety and that of her daughter. But now that news of their affair is public anyway, Daniels is suing the president for the right to tell her story. Trump’s legal team has threatened her with damages of $20m for breaking her non-disclosure agreement.
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