Failure by bagmen seems to be the bane of Prexy Dennison’s existence… Now the table dance turns… and there’s talk of Stormy filming a reenactment, but my bet is on the Taiwanese animation folks.
No one can swallow a gag order if it’s never ordered. Her lawyer sez someone (like Cohen) “went off half-cocked”.
Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who alleges she had a sexual relationship with President Trump more than a decade ago and was paid $130,000 not to talk about it, is offering to give the money back to speak freely.
In a letter, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, says Daniels "will pay $130,000 to President Trump by wire transfer, to an account designated by the president" by this Friday. Trump has never admitted knowledge of the payment to Daniels, which was made by his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump, through Cohen and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has denied that there was an affair, which by Daniels' telling took place in 2006 and 2007 when Trump was married and his son Barron was a baby.
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Her stage name, Stormy Daniels, comes from Mötley Crüe's bassist Nikki Sixx's daughter Storm, and the US whisky Jack Daniels - which southerner Ms Clifford chose after reading an ad calling the drink "a Southern favourite".
You may also recognise her from such films The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, and the music video for Maroon Five's song Wake Up Call.
It all goes back to July 2006 - when the White House was merely a twinkle in Donald Trump's eye.
Ms Daniels says she met him that month at a charity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, a resort area between California and Nevada.
In a 2011 interview with In Touch Weekly, published in full in January, she says Mr Trump invited her to dinner and that she went to meet him in his hotel room.
"He was all sprawled out on the couch, watching television or something," she said in the interview. "He was wearing pyjama pants."
Ms Daniels alleges the pair had sex in the hotel room (Mr Trump's lawyer said he "vehemently denies" the allegation.)
What could it mean for President Trump?
The allegations surfaced at a tricky time for White House officials, and don't appear to be going away.
As well as the ongoing investigation into possible collusion with Russia, more and more of Mr Trump's staff have left or are under scrutiny.
The last thing the White House needs is another scandal to respond to.
It's also raised the spectre of a former president.
Remember that Bill Clinton faced impeachment proceedings after lying about his affair with staffer Monica Lewinsky.
Lanny Davis, a lawyer who served as special counsel to President Clinton, on Wednesday accused Republicans of "utter hypocrisy" for the way they're treating Mr Trump compared with how they treated Mr Clinton.