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.