By Aaron Miller-
President Donald Trump has put in a claim for a slice of the $450,000 settlement adult film star Stormy Daniels reached with the city of Columbus over her arrest at a strip club in 2018.
Trump filed a court notice today, Wednesday, through Columbus attorney Dan Binau, for the $293,000 judgement against Daniels in California where a judge ordered Daniels to pay attorneys’ fees and sanctions for a defamation lawsuit she filed against the president, which was later dis
A similar notice last month in federal court in southern Ohio. The Eye Of Media.Com had asked the White House on three separate occasions in the past whether Trump had claimed the money ordered by the judge after Daniels lost her predictable defamation case against the president. White House media representatives at the time did not want to discuss the matter, saying that it was up to the president if and when he decided to claim the money.
Daniels, reached her six-figure settlement with Columbus in September in relation to her arrest by undercover detectives at strip club Sirens. Columbus police claimed her July 2018 arrest was conducted as part of an investigation into human trafficking and prostitution. Daniels said that was false, and was instead a way to cover a political motivation.
Police later said Daniels put her hands on an officer’s buttocks and put her breasts in an officer’s face, which formed the basis for her arrest. Columbus’ city attorney later dropped the misdemeanour charges against Daniels and two others arrested the same night. An investigation conducted by the police department’s internal affairs unit eventually concluded the arrest was improper.
The Californian lawsuit that led to the embarrassing defeat for Daniels related to an April 2018 tweet in which the president questioned statements Daniels made about a man she said threatened her and her daughter in 2011. After Daniels released a sketch of the man she said threatened her, and the next day Trump tweeted that the man was “nonexistent” and Daniels’ assertions were “a total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!
In legal debt of $300k: Stormy Daniels
Trump has recently been burdened with impeachment testimonies with the first public impeachment hearing expected in days. However, he is not prepared to let Daniels, who has jumped at every opportunity to belittle the president, escape paying her own legal debts to him.