“He always told me he loved me,” McDougal told Anderson Cooper in a nearly hourlong interview Thursday. The possibility of a sex tape or, God forbid, Trump nudity isn’t actually what matters about his (alleged) extramarital affairs with former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, and former model Karen McDougal . That he may have cheated on his wife isn’t surprising, given what we know about the president. But there’s little precedent for that argument in court, contract lawyers told HuffPost. “They wanted to squash the story,” McDougal told Cooper ― presumably to protect Trump, she added.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 21:00 UTC