of new york Criminal case The hearing for former President Donald Trump continued Thursday with a hearing on additional gag order violations and testimony from prosecution witness attorney Keith Davidson. Mr. Davidson previously represented porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who are accused of having affairs with Mr. Trump.
Davidson never saw a copy of the so-called hush-money agreement between Donald Trump, allegedly “David Dennison,” and Stormy Daniels, “Peggy Peterson,” which was actually signed by Trump. He testified that there was no such thing. All he saw was an agreement that Cohen allegedly signed on behalf of Trump.
Additionally, Mr. Davidson pointed out that there was an ancillary agreement using the parties’ real names. That contract listed Peggy Peterson as Stephanie Gregory Clifford, Daniels’ legal name. However, there was a blank line that read “David Dennison aka”.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that while the entourage agreement did include Trump’s name, Davidson admitted it was his handwriting. Davidson said he had never met Trump before this trial began, and that he had never even been in the same room with him.
After Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Davidson said he received a call from Cohen saying he was “not going to Washington with Trump” after “all the work he’s done for that son of a bitch.” He claimed to have expressed his dissatisfaction and anger.
According to Davidson, Cohen allegedly stated, “That son of a bitch is not going to give me back $130,000.” The money referred to payments that Mr. Cohen sent to Mr. Daniels under Mr. Trump’s agreement with her.
According to Davidson, as per the agreement, Cohen directed him to tell the Wall Street Journal that the allegations of an affair between Daniels and Trump were untrue.
In 2018, Davidson issued a statement to the Journal on Daniels’ behalf saying, “I want to say unequivocally that this is completely false.”
The lawyer rejected the corporate media’s use of the terms “hush money” and “payments.”
“It was not a ‘payment’ or ‘hush money’; it was a consideration in the civil settlement,” Davidson argued.
He noted that Daniels planned to appear on Jimmy Kimmel’s show despite the settlement agreement because she wanted to “talk about her life and reinvigorate her career.”
Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Emile Bove, played a recording of Mr. Davidson telling Mr. Cohen that Mr. Daniels wanted the money “more than he imagined.”
Davidson continued in the recording, “If… [Trump] He’s going to lose this election, and he’s going to lose, and we’re all going to lose all fucking influence. …This incident has zero value. ”
Davidson testified that, like Daniels, McDougal, a former Playboy model, was trying to revive her career.
Davidson said McDougall said it was a “dream deal” to sell his alleged affair with Trump to the National Enquirer. He said MacDougall’s contract with the tabloid promised her monthly columns on aging and fitness in Star and OK magazines.
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