Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen will plead the Fifth in court case brought by Stormy Daniels 

July 2006: Porn star Stormy Daniels says she meets now President Donald Trump at a Nevada golf tournament. They have an alleged sexual encounter.

2011: Daniels gives an interview about her tryst with Trump to In Touch Weekly. In 2018 she tells 60 Minutes that she was threatened by a man in Las Vegas over the telling of her story, and so the interview never ran.

October 2016: In the weeks before voters head to the polls, Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen uses a Delaware-based LLC to make a $130,000 payment to Daniels, in exchange for her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep quiet about the alleged sexual encounter. 

May 17, 2017:  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller to take over the Russia probe on the heels of President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. 

January 12, 2018: The Wall Street Journal breaks the story that Cohen paid the $130,000 to Daniels, weeks shy of the 2016 presidential election.

February 13, 2018: Cohen publicly admits to paying the $130,000, but says he did so with his own personal money, and was reimbursed by the Trump campaign nor the Trump Organization. In referencing the payment, Daniels’ attorney says the NDA is breached.  

March 6, 2018: The Washington Post reported that Mueller requested documents and interviewed witnesses about incidents involving Cohen.  Additionally, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump in California Superior Court claiming that the NDA never went into effect because Trump never signed it.

March 16, 2018: Lawyers for both Cohen and Trump attempt to get the Daniels’ lawsuit moved from state to federal court. This marked the first time lawyers for Trump are actively involved in legal action over the Daniels’ matter. 

March 28, 2018: The 60 Minutes’ interview with Daniels airs.  She details spanking Trump with a magazine with his face on the cover and having sex with him once. 

April 5, 2018: For the first time, Trump speaks about the $130,000 payment telling reporters on board Air Force One that he had no knowledge of it at the time.  ‘You’ll have to ask Michael,’ the president responded when asked why Cohen made the payment

April 9, 2018: The FBI raids the New York City offices of Cohen. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan received a referral from Mueller, the New York Times reported. CNN reported that documents related to the Daniels affair were swept up in the search. 



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