An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said he believed more women would come forward with similar hush money agreements to the one arranged between Daniels and President Trump to silence her from discussing an alleged affair.
“Women have come forward and contacted our office,” Michael Avenatti said on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. “We haven’t completed vetting those stories. But I think at the end of the day there is going to be evidence of such payments.”
When asked, Trump’s new attorney Rudy Giuliani said it could be possible more hush money payments occurred if it was needed.
“I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes,” he told Stephanopoulos.
Avenatti also pushed back against claims by Giuliani that Daniels’ appearance on “Saturday Night Live” would impact the merits of her defamation case against Trump. Citing her appearance on the late-night sketch comedy show, Giuliani said that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is only seeking to profit off the connection to Trump.
Avenatti called such a claim “ridiculous.”
“Donald Trump went on ‘Saturday Night Live’ during the election. I don’t think it hurt our case at all,” he said.
During her cameo on “SNL” on Saturday, Clifford called for Trump’s resignation and warned “a storm’s a-coming.”
The president’s former personal attorney Michael Cohenpaid Clifford $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from discussing an alleged affair with Trump. While Trump has maintained he had no knowledge of the payments at the time, Giuliani suggested earlier this week he was aware of the arrangement.
Giuliani later walked back those comments and said he has no knowledge of the details of the situation or the timeline of when Trump was informed about the payments.
