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Today, Explained

Lady and the Trump

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A president. A porn star. A lawyer with a $130,000 payoff. The allegation is Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels and his lawyer paid her to keep quiet. Now, she’s suing so she can talk freely and just today, Daniels' attorney says someone threatened to physically harm her. Vox's Laura McGann says this is much more than your run-of-the-mill political sex scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Luke Vanderplegue, today explain producer. We have been in this mattress firm in Brentwood, Washington DC for four days

0:05.7

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0:12.0

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0:20.4

I'm Laura McGann and I run politics and policy coverage here at the Vox at the Vox.com

0:26.2

Okay, so you definitely know who Stormy Daniels is. Oh, I know who Stormy Daniels is

0:33.1

So Stormy Daniels is an adult film star her real name is definitely Clifford

0:40.7

But her chosen performance name and sort of personal chosen name is Stormy Daniels

0:46.1

She says that she had an affair with Donald Trump for a year

0:51.4

The legal battle between the president and a former adult film star escalated today

0:56.8

She has felt a lawsuit seeking permission to talk about an alleged affair with Mr. Trump his legal team denies the affair and says she needs to follow a non-disclosure agreement

1:06.3

I know you either do or don't have a non-disclosure agreement

1:10.3

Which if you didn't have a non-disclosure agreement, do you have a non-disclosure agreement? Do I?

1:16.8

I didn't know you could like have an affair with someone and then have an NDA

1:20.9

But that's a thing you could do I learned from this story apparently you can like cheat on your wife and then have an NDA

1:26.4

And then say this never happened because the law. Yeah, so this is what's going on right now with Donald Trump

1:32.4

His lawyer actually and his other lawyer have set up a sort of deal with Stormy

1:38.9

Where she's not allowed to talk about this affair that she had with Donald Trump. Yeah, they paid her

1:44.8

$130,000 to just not say anything

1:49.5

so she signed this document and

1:52.7

Now she wants to talk. Why does this back-and-forth

1:57.8

Matter who signed it who didn't the coverage of the story has been very focused on this as a sex scandal

2:04.6

Yeah, and it definitely is but

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