Lawyers might try stopping Stormy Daniels' '60 Minutes' interview
Lawyers tied to President Trump want to put the kibosh on an unaired interview Stormy Daniels gave to “60 Minutes,” according to a report.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sat down with Anderson Cooper days after filing a lawsuit to exit her “hush agreement” to not discuss her fling with the President more than a decade ago.
“We understand from well-placed sources they are preparing to file for a legal injunction to prevent it from airing,” someone aware of the legal maneuvering told Buzzfeed News.
What argument they’d make to stop the highly anticipated interview from airing wasn’t available, nor where the injunction might be filed. How the lawyers were associated with the President wasn't immediately clear.
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A CBS News spokesman declined to comment about the report.
A Buzzfeed News reporter later tweeted the interview will air March 18.
The news comes less than a week after Daniels filed a lawsuit against the President in Los Angeles court.
She argued her late 2016 agreement was null and void because Trump — using the pseudonym David Dennison — didn’t sign the pact.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime attorney, said earlier this year that he personally paid $130,000 to Daniels so she wouldn’t discuss her supposed short affair with Trump beginning in 2006.
Daniel’s lawsuit came about a week after Cohen got a temporary restraining order to hit her with penalties if the adult film star discusses her short-lived affair with Trump, which lasted several months and began in mid-2006.
Court documents claim Cohen tried to “shut her up” with the “bogus arbitration proceeding” in late February, NBC News reported last week.
Cohen didn’t immediately return the Daily News’ request for comment, but directed Buzzfeed News to attorney Larry Rosen — his “attorney handling this matter.”
Rosen confirmed to the news website he represented EC LLC — the entity used to pay Daniels not to discuss the fling — in the California lawsuit, be declined to comment further.
Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, tweeted a photo Thursday of himself, his client and Cooper — a CNN anchor and “60 Minutes” contributor — and tagged the news magazine show.
Several outlets later reported that Daniels had sat for an interview.
Avenatti expressed dismay when contacted about news of the possible injunction Sunday.
"The attempted cover-up evidently continues unabated,” he told the News in an email.
“Basta," he continued, which means “enough” in Italian.
