Michael Cohen caught in weird plot to sabotage Stormy Daniels’ lawyer
Stormy Daniels appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday night and asserted that an unknown man threatened her physical safety if she went public about her affair with Donald Trump, implying that Trump and/or his longtime attorney Michael Cohen sent the man in question. Cohen’s attorney then immediately sent a letter to Daniels’ attorney, demanding that Daniels stop making the claim. Daniels responded by suing Cohen on Monday, revealing a key new piece of evidence in the process.
Cohen and Daniels negotiated a nondisclosure agreement in 2016, just days before election day. Then in February of 2018, as the affair and payoff were becoming public, Cohen sent an email to the attorney who had been representing Daniels during the negotiations. In that email, Cohen demanded that the attorney not provide any information, including the NDA itself, to any new attorney that Daniels might have been hiring at the time. In so doing, Cohen attempted to prevent Daniels from being able to obtain adequate representation from any new attorney she might hire.
This stunning development is being reported by NBC News, which has posted a copy of the email in question from Cohen. We’ll have to leave it to the court system to determine whether Cohen’s actions were in violation of the law, in violation of attorney ethics standards, all of the above, or none of the above. But it’s the latest reminder of how low Trump’s team is willing to sink, and how desperate they’ve been to prevent Daniels from telling her story.
Meanwhile, even as Donald Trump and his representatives are going to increasing measures to try to silence Stormy Daniels and make this scandal go away, Trump remains afraid to even so much as mention her name. On Monday morning he publicly addressed the affair for the first time, in highly tepid fashion, generically dismissing recent events as “fake news” without specifically referencing Daniels, in a tweet that we don’t even think he wrote.
