Stormy Daniels’ lawyer on $130,000 payment: ‘There’s no question it had everything to do with the election’

Published May 4, 2018 4:09am ET



The lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels said that President Trump’s personal lawyer and Daniel’s then-lawyer Keith Davidson had “extensive communications” about when the $130,000 payment in October 2016 was made in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.

“There were extensive communications between Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson in October 2016 relating to the timing of this payment and the need for this payment to be made prior to the election,” Michael Avenatti told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday.

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