Trump Claims Ignorance
No one is surprised.
If he wasn’t aware of the agreement, then he could not have agreed (unless he gave Cohen a power of attorney, which has not been asserted and seems completely out of character for a control freak like tRump), and as he is a necessary party, there must have been no agreement.
Yup. The madam’s a virgin.
Trump’s lips were moving, so of course we know he is lying. Trump is completely incapable of telling the truth about anything!
Such a catch-22 for these fools. If I was Cohen’s attorney, I’d be seriously considering defending against charges of criminal campaign finance violations by showing that the timing was just coincidental, i.e., that Cohen does this all the time by rote to clean up President Affluenza’s messes…show the jury a stack of 100 NDA’s signed by idiots who slept with him, etc., and argue there was nothing special about the one with Stormy other than coincidental and inconvenient timing. The problem with that is, that makes it look like Trump couldn’t possibly be ignorant of it, because it’s SOP and he’s clearly in on the game.
In any event, Trump’s denial isn’t even credible in the first place, so meh.
I agree. Strange that he had no idea there was an agreement but is now suing Stormy for $20 million for violating the agreement.
At some point very soon, the question of precisely what authority Trump gave to Cohen will need to be answered with a “yes” or a “no,” which is not the same thing as a “yes or no” or a “yes and no” or an “and/or.”
If Cohen had Trump’s authority to buy silence and kompromat from Stormy or anyone else, in contracts that didn’t need Trump’s signature, then Trump has legal standing to enforce the deals. It wouldn’t necessarily matter if Trump knew the names and details of each deal. If he authorized Cohen to make the deals, knowing there were deals to be made, I think that would be enough.
But if Cohen did not have Trump’s authority to do anything on his behalf, then the deals are unenforceable because the various rights and duties assigned to Trump in the deals were never in Cohen’s hands to begin with.
I wonder if the whole point of the secret arbitrations was to make it possible for him to maintain deniability in public and only having to reveal his party status in a forum that wouldn’t be known to, oh, I don’t know, maybe someone with an enforceable prenup?
It’s been a shell game all along, and it’s going to have to end soon.
Does this public admission have any bearing on the likelihood of Trump being compelled to testify?
Trump Claims Ignorance Of His Lawyer’s $130,000 Payment To Porn Star
Off course he does, ask Michael Cohen who has been trying to get them refunded for over a year.
Such an obvious and stupid lie. If he’d told the truth, I doubt it would hurt him politically with his base. They’d literally excuse him for anything.
At least, he wasn’t stupid enough to say this under oath.
It is pretty clear that Trump / Cohen will NEVER move to take a legal action to try to enforce any aspect of this not-fully-executed “agreement” - they will bluster - and Trump’s toads will spin yarns for the base - but get into any aspect that could force them onto a courthouse - no way!
Why did this doofus say anything? What a fool
This is one time I can believe him…ignorance is at the very crux of his disasterious tenure in office.
Getting pretty thin up there.
A home for the fleas…hive for the buzzin bees…Haaaaairrrrr
Grampa makes less and less sense when he talks, emotionally labile, sloppy with grooming. Coming up time to have The Talk with him with the brochures and the way we worry about him living alone like that.
And the hits keep coming.
I think he’d do just fine talking to Mueller.
Or Avenatti.
Or the paintings.
It seems as if Stormy’s attorney could pursue an entirely parallel line of attack by asking a judge to rule the original agreement is void. It seems like that’s a matter of law; the content and condition of the agreement stand on their own and there doesn’t need to be a dispute to resolve, just ask a judge to rule if the contract meets the standard of a contract. Any legal beagles out there, please explain if that’s possible.