Discussion: Stormy Daniels Lawyer: She Was 'Physically Threatened' To Stay Silent

God I certainly hope so. He’s earned that rough road a thousand times over.

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You know how ‘some’ people get aggressive and unpleasant when they are drunk? And you wonder if that’s the ‘real’ them? And you know, yeah, it IS. But that most of us ‘have’ unpleasant thoughts and let them go but when drunk we don’t think about hurting the other person. The drunk ‘always’ thinks they are funny.

Anyway, Michael Cohen strikes me as ‘that guy’ but ‘that guy’ who’s drunk all the time and does not care about what he is saying.

I wonder if Cohen could be arrested for making ‘terroristic threats’ because now Avenatti has SIX other women who searched him out (I think because he appears to be a competent counsel) and guess what? FOUR of these women don’t have NDAs!

Boy, 60 Minutes is going to have a HUGE audience NEXT Sunday!

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Cohen has been known to threaten people physically before, so my bet’s on him. I wonder when the NY State Bar is going to notice how many ethical violations he has.

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I wonder what bizarre thing Trump will be doing just before 60 minutes on the 25th. It will have to be pretty spectacular.

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At least some of the threats, we are told, preceded the contract:

Avenatti also suggested in his interview with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo that Daniels had signed the nondisclosure agreement under threat, although he once again did not elaborate further.

“That’s one thing, [she] says, ‘I want to — I’m going to speak unless we can figure out a deal.’ Fine, legal, as long as it wasn’t being coercive,” Cuomo posed to Avenatti. “If it was, ‘well, I have to do this because I’m afraid if I don’t do it, something will happen to me because that has been articulated,’ that’s something else. Which was it?”

“Something else,” Avenatti replied, suggesting that Cuomo’s second scenario was the correct one.

Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, did not immediately respond to an email asking for comment.

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Hummm—-

If she was physically threatened, can’t she now claim she entered into the alleged agreement and took the $130,000 under duress?

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Exactly.

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Let’s see . . . to recap:

1, Daniels alleges that she had an affair with a married Donald Trump which began soon after the birth of Barron;
2. On the eve of the election, pursuant to an NDA, Trump’s personal attorney paid Daniels $130,000 for her silence about the alleged affair with Trump;
3. More recently, a lawyer with the Trump organization was listed as counsel of record in the ex-parte arbitration proceeding that was filed seeking to enforce the NDA;
4. But Trump denies ever having an affair with Daniels, and further denies knowing anything about the payment or the NDA.

Um, yeah . . . one of these things is not like the others . . .

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Then again, there’s this lovely fellow–

Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back, Bitch’
After hearing Rachel Maddow discuss our recent story about Kasowitz, a man emailed the attorney urging him to resign. Kasowitz responded with threats and profanity.

And in Fire and Fury, Steve Bannon supposedly said that it was Kasowitz (I think) who paid off or took care of a hundred women.

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Maybe, just maybe, this is her moment in the international spotlight that she cannot resist stepping into.

Trump craves continual attention and approval and the power he feels it gives him. Stormy too craves attention and power. Approval? Not so much. And she is now entering the history books. That’s a LOT of attention. And power. She has the POTUS twisting in the wind here. Not bad.

She is actually the perfect person to help bring Trump down. She can belittle his masculinity, rub his ugly orange face in his lies and bullying, blast his sexist crap all over the media, and focus a laser on Trump’s fawning hypocritics on the evangelical right.

Plus, she may be able to prove he broke a bunch of laws. Though I do think Mueller has that covered. Personally, I’m just all in on the humiliation piece.

Go Stormy!!!

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I sure didn’t seem like much money she was supposedly paid for what she knew, although since it was Donald I can also imagine that was all he had!

Knowing Michael Cohen’s MO there will be both texts and voice messages to substantiate her claims.

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There’s also the subtext of self preservation. The higher she’s able to raise her media profile the more expensive it becomes for Trump and his thugs to take her out. We all know he’s capable of doing that and the cost-benefit analysis is what’s keeping her safe.

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And by “physically threatened” they mean she’d be forced to have sex with Trump again.

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I’m better betting this is part of the fact-checking that the network was working on that held up broadcast of the interview. Now they’ve set a broadcast date, sounds like they’re buying into the story.

Party on, Dudes!

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Except that Michael Cohen is an incompetent mob lawyer. There will be both texts and voice messages. They’ve been getting away with bloody murder for so long they’ve come to regard themselves as inviolate and above the law.

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The idea that the DOTUS has amongst his crew of miscreants a person who would stoop to threatening the health of someone how has dirt on donnie… totally unsurprising.

They felt she had to be physically threatened because, unlike a lot of other women, the “I’ll ruin your reputation” gambit didn’t faze her.

A lot of women would/do back off if someone says to them that if they talk the powers that be will make sure their name is smeared across the land with every little detail of any little sexual secret they have. This woman’s not going to be intimidated by a threat to tell everyone she’s screwed a lot of men or has done “kinky” things, nor by threats to show pictures of her nude – she’s obviously comfortable with all that because she’s chosen to do it publicly as her profession.

So, they couldn’t scare her with, “We’ll make sure your family finds out what you’ve done,” or by “We’ll see to it that your employer finds out about this,” or by saying “You’ll never work again when people find out about you.” To their way of thinking, physical threats were the only way to go.

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Jonathan Turley was on Morning Joe today and talked about Stormy’s lawyer having done research for him in the past. He characterizes him as a very very good lawyer. He also said that if Avenatti says he has something, he does.

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