President Trump called porn star Stormy Daniels’ affair allegations “meaningless” Thursday while dining with first lady Melania Trump in Florida, according to colorful boxing promoter Don King.
Trump, conspicuously silent in public about the alleged 2006 affair, made the alleged remark to King, less than a week after a widely watched “60 Minutes” interview with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
“The Daniels saga came up as Trump ate dinner Thursday night at Mar-a-Lago with his wife, Melania, and other family members,” the Washington Post reports.
King told the Post he joined the Trumps at the Florida resort and mentioned the allegations.
“The top story, number one, is Stormy Daniels,” King recalled telling Trump. “I told him it’s utterly ridiculous. I just came back from Hamburg, Germany, and they were just laughing at us.”
King told the Post that Trump nodded and said, “It’s meaningless.”
“If he denies it happened, that’s what it is,” King told the paper. “Who cares what he does with some lady? … The president is a guy who we call in the vernacular of the ghetto, S.K.D., something kinda different.”
King was convicted in 1967 of murder for stomping to death employee Sam Garrett, who allegedly owed him $600. He killed a second person, Hillary Brown, with a gunshot to the back in 1954 as Brown allegedly attempted to rob on of his businesses.
One theory to explain Trump’s public silence about Daniels is that denying her claims would open him to liability for defamation. Daniels says her relations with Trump were consensual, but that he was married to Melania Trump at the time.
Daniels was paid $130,000 by Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen to sign a non-disclosure deal in October 2016, but now claims the non-disclosure deal is invalid because Trump did not sign the document.
