The lawyer for Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels have talked about the hush money deals made to his clients and it includes his suspicion that former President Donald Trump was “the one” who ultimately funded the Daniels payoff via Deadline.
It has been noted that Lawyer Keith Davidson said on Tuesday that he did not enjoy having to deal with Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. The tension went back to a hostile phone call in 2011 after a gossip site called TheDirty blogged about rumors of a sexual liaison between adult film star Daniels and Trump.
“Before I could barely get my name out, I was met with a hostile barrage of insults and allegations,” Davidson testified in Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan.
Cohen was “just screaming,” Davidson said, and he accused Davidson’s clients, Daniels and her manager, Gina Rodriguez, of leaking the claim to TheDirty. “Finally, after he finished,” Davidson recalled, he assured Cohen that Daniels didn’t want the story publicized.
Davidson wound up agreeing to call TheDirty with a cease and desist order, and the publication pulled the post, he testified.
Ahead of that call, Rodriguez warned Davidson that “some jerk,” meaning Cohen, had called her threatening to sue over the gossip item, Davidson testified.
Prosecutors have identified Michael Cohen as Donald Trump’s intermediary in a “catch and kill” scheme to prevent politically-damaging stories about Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal from becoming breaking news during Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. The Manhattan District Attorney’s case is based on the $130,000 payout made to Daniels, which allegedly implicates Trump in a criminal electoral conspiracy that was executed through Cohen.
Five years after a dispute over TheDirty, attorney Keith Davidson was negotiating the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story of a long-running affair with Trump with the tabloid publisher American Media. A lawyer for the company urged Davidson to contact Cohen.
Davidson balked, saying that his last encounter with Cohen “was not pleasant or instructive and I didn’t particularly like dealing with him and that’s why I was trying like hell to avoid talking to him.”
