Donald Trump ‘VEHEMENTLY DENIES’ paying porn star £94,000 to ‘keep hidden encounter quiet’
DONALD Trump “vehemently denies” paying a porn star £94,000 ($130,000) to keep a hidden encounter quiet in October 2016 following a report that claimed the President had an affair in 2006.
Mr Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, denied the claims that the Republican firebrand had a sexual encounter with Stephanie Clifford - the actress is also known as “Stormy Daniels”.
Mr Cohen said: "These rumours have circulated time and again since 2011.
"President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence, as has Ms Daniels.”
A White House official added: "These are old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election."
The attorney also provided a statement from the porn star that claimed the allegations are “completely false”.
It read: "My involvement with Donald Trump was limited to a few public appearances and nothing more.
"When I met Donald Trump, he was gracious, professional and a complete gentleman to me and everyone in my presence.
“Rumours that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false.
"If indeed I did have a relationship with Donald Trump, trust me, you wouldn't be reading about in the news, you would be reading about it in my book.
“But the fact of the matter is, these stories are not true."
US sources claim that Ms Daniels was in touch with producers at ABC’s “Good Morning America” at the end of 2016 about an interview and was reportedly ready to talk about Mr Trump.
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Other sources claim the porn star had set up an interview but changed her mind on November 3, before the election that saw Mr Trump reach the doors of the White House.
The report claimed that a payment was made to Ms Daniels “as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr Trump”.
Ms Daniels reportedly met the Republican firebrand in July 2006 at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at the Edgewood Tahoe in Nevada.
The two were seen together in a picture that was taken at the event - it was posted to the porn star’s MySpace page.
Fellow adult actress, neighbour and close friend, Alana Evans, alleged that Mr Trump chased Ms Daniels around his hotel room “in his tighty-whities”.
She said: “It was the second day of our trip, we were in a hotel with a tattoo parlour, and the hotel had huge windows so you could see people outside.
“When I saw Stormy, I was like what the f***? I opened the door, called out to her, and she joined me while my colleague got a tattoo.
“Stormy said she met Donald Trump and then tells me about the golf tournament and how she’s supposed to hang out with him later that night, and she invited me.
“Stormy said Donald knew exactly who she was and wanted to meet her.
“Stormy calls me four or five times, by the last two phone calls she’s with Donald Trump and I can hear him, and he’s talking through the phone to me saying, ‘Oh come on Alana, let’s have some fun! Let’s have some fun! Come to the party, we’re waiting for you.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god it’s Donald Trump!’ Men like him scare me because they have so much power and this was way before his presidential nomination.
“So I bailed on them and turned my phone off.
“She tells me, ‘All I’m going to say is: I ended up with Donald in his hotel room. Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities.’ I was like, ‘Oh I really didn’t need to hear that!’ Then she said he offered her keys to his condos in Florida, and I was like, ‘Wow guess you had a good night,’ and that was the last we ever spoke of it.”