By Aaron Miller-
Attorneys representing President Trump and adult film star Stormy Daniels will reappear in a Los Angeles federal court Monday to determine whether a non-disclosure agreement between the two will be enforced.
The court case relates to whether Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen are to enforce a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement Daniels signed just before the 2016 election to keep her sexual encounter with Trump quiet. Today, representatives of the pair will go to court to decide whether the contract has legal force or not. Stormy Daniels has always contended its legal force on the grounds it was not signed by Donald Trump,
Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, have been fighting the N.D. However, The Eye Of Media.Com has heard that lawyers for Cohen and Trump have made a dramatic U turn, and no longer want to enforce the agreement and have asked Otero to dismiss the matter saying there’s no legal conflict for him to resolve.
“Mr. Trump does not, and will not, contest [Daniels’s] assertion that the settlement agreement was never formed, or in the alternative, should be rescinded,” Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder wrote to the court. It follows Cohen’s guilty plea to eight felony charges, including a campaign finance violation for the payment to Daniels. Cohen claimed he made the hush payment at the direction of Trump. The president has always denied the affair, and his legal representatives may be reluctant to want to enforce a none disclosure about a claim Trump denies.
At the time of writing, The Eye Of Media.Com is deliberating whether to contact the court to request a legal ruling anyway on whether the disclosure agreement would legally be enforceable in law, irrespective of the written request to no longer contest it. The obvious prediction is that it would not have been enforceable if the contract itself was illegal, given its agreement to withhold valuable information from the electorate during the elections.
“To be called a liar and people not believe me for months and months and months, had really taken its toll,” Daniels said on “The View.” “So it was just so, like, yes, vindicated, just so, I just felt like all this weight came off my shoulders.”
Michael Avenatti, who represents porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal entanglements with President Donald Trump also claims he is also representing a woman with “credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh” and his high school friend, Mark Judge.“We will be demanding the opportunity to present testimony to the (Senate) committee and will likewise be demanding that Judge and others be subpoenaed to testify,” Avenatti said in a Twitter post on Sunday. “The nomination must be withdrawn,” he said.
Avenatti had hinted with an earlier tweet that he had information on Kavanaugh. “What happens at Georgetown Prep does not stay at Georgetown Prep,” he tweeted.
Much has happened in the several months since U.S. District Court Judge James Otero issued the first of two stays in the case.Most significantly, Michael Cohen, the now-former Trump lawyer who made the payment to silence Daniels just days before the election, pleaded guilty in August to numerous criminal charges and is now assisting the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling.The civil suit delays were predicated on concerns that any further litigation over the validity of a settlement agreement associated with the $130,000 payment could compromise Cohen’s constitutional rights in the criminal case. With that matter now resolved, the California action figures to move forward
Daniels has recently been promoting a new book she wrote about her experience with President Trump, with many references to her childhood. She has opposed the move saying it’s nothing more than a “stunt” by the defence to avoid discovery and depositions.
“[T]he court cannot simply allow defendants to exit the case without facing any true consequences or a meaningful inquiry into the truth,” Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is openly flirting with a presidential run against Trump, said. He added that dismissing the case would erode public confidence in the court system.
Otero is also expected to address defamation lawsuits Daniels filed against Cohen and Trump.
Last month, Trump asked for dismissal, saying that a critical tweet directed toward Daniels is protected speech and that instead of being harmed by it, she has profited from the controversy.