What would happen if Stormy just ‘did what she wanted’ and tell Cohen to pound sand? He says he won’t/can’t respond to her civil suit, OKAY, just do it.
It remains unresolved whether Daniels has a valid non-disclosure agreement with Trump and or Cohen, and whether the penalties in the NDA are enforceable. The preponderance of legal opinion seems to be that they are not enforceable, but do you want to take a one million dollar chance per disclosure?
Or maybe Daniels/Avenatti already plan to go forward without an invalidated NDA and the past two months’ legal maneouvering has just been playing Trump & Cohen like a pair of muppets while building Daniels’ publicity.
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This is a cautious ruling. But in all fairness, caution would seem to be called for in this case. I can’t say that I would certainly have acted otherwise if I’d been the judge, It’s unclear how Cohen could comply with discovery requirements so long as all his documentation is in the hands of the feds. There is also, as the judge notes, the obviously problematic concurrence of criminal proceedings that appear to cover the factual terrain of the civil suit. Stormy will have to wait a while longer. It may be that things look quite different in 90 days.
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Been following ever since Opus woke up after his 25 year nap among the dandelions.
EDIT: Hereeee’s Johnny! https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/
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I feel like she has played another valuable role: to be the key that opened the Cohen safe. Brilliant strategy and execution!
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This decision, while seemingly legally appropriate, breaks Avenatti’s streak of being 100% accurate in his predictions and he should use this ‘failure’ (he predicted that he would prevail) to end this most unappealing trait – the smug smirking egotistical prediction. I like Avenatti, he is a clever man, seemingly solid in mind and argument and he has pwned Cohen and Trump like a Jedi master. But this ‘I have a perfect record in my predictions’ trash talk is really below him and I hope it stops. He is best when he presents the facts, the legal arguments, Cohen / Trump’s perils, the situation etc in his clear and informed way. The b-ball court level peacock stuff is unbecoming and a stain on what is otherwise a damn good lawyer. He doesn’t need this cocky talk – he is winning. Let this be the end of it.
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Trump’s time has nothing to do with it. After all, Trump himself has offered to examine documents that might be privileged in the Cohen/SDNY case, which is an admission that he has time for a 2 hr deposition. This is about Cohen’s 5th amendment rights.
More specifically, its about Cohen’s 5th amendment rights in the defamation part of the lawsuit. So far, no one has noticed footnote #4 of the decision. It turns out that Avenatti argued that the defamation claim was not severable from the “void the NDA” claim. And the judge used that argument to stay the entire proceeding.
of course, avenatti’s “non-severable” claim is completely nonsensical, and the judge knows it. IMHO, the judge issued the stay as a shot at Avenatti for wasting the court’s time.
This case doesn’t have to proceed any further (although I hope it does). The damage has been done.
Thank-you, Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.
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This might be a chance for First Lady Kremlin Barbie and First Pornstar Melaria, Eric, Don Jr. and Bannon to welcome the newest addition to the Trump family from Trump World Tower and to hold a solemn funeral service to celebrate the life of the Trump baby that Preshitident Manslut-Peehooker aborted for $1.6 million dollars. It would be a good time for the Barbie and the Pornstar to meet the sister wives.
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I humbly disagree. He’s communicating with his opposition in a language they understand. Facts and legal arguments voiced in clear and informed ways don’t register with these life forms and certainly wouldn’t have provoked dt to destroy himself via Twitter day after day.
Avenatti may be that egotistical, but I read his smirking as fighting fire with fire. The smirker in chief really hates it when the smirks are directed at him and he can’t stop himself from reacting.
Keep poking the bear until he inadvertently admits what and who he poked, literally and metaphorically.
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Trump himself has “personally offered to examine documents”—-hahahahaha!!
That was indeed hilarious, good flag.
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So you think Broidy ‘bearded’ for Trump? What they were saying last night was that DAVIDSON (the apparent bottom-feeder who was also McDougal and Daniels’ attorney and seems to have been colluding with Cohen against his clients) was the guy with the fits-all NDAs. But it does make it interesting to game that out.
Broidy is a HUGE GOP donor; I can also see it likely he asked The Donald (who seems to have had a lot of lady problems in the past) if he knew a guy who could help him out of this little problem.
I don’t know.
Two of the Deputy Finance Chairs of the Republican Party were involved in these racketeering and blackmail activities.
Interestingly, the mainstream media is not reporting on the fact that RNC Deputy Finance Chair Broidy’s name was not listed in open court on the official list of Michael Cohen’s legal clients after the FBI raid.
This is consistent with what you suggest regarding Broidy’s and Trump’s roles in the matter. It also accounts for the paternity paragraph in the unsigned and invalid NDA with Stormy Daniels.
I am thinking that the abortion was a partial birth abortion or a late term abortion given the large sum of money involved to the mother of Trump’s (I hope that he will clarify this truthfully) unborn child. In contrast, Stormy Daniels who had a lot of leverage got only $130K.
Ah, sorry, I didn’t realize it had been edited.
I can see a lot of reasons (reasonable reasons) to have an abortion but working it for a ‘big’ payday is just disgusting to me.
And these guys are the Party of LIFE? Um, no.