Stormy Daniels’ affair claims aren’t credible because she’s a porn star, says Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani
Comments by Trump’s lawyer are slammed by Daniels’s attorney, who says he ‘would put her character up against Mr Giuliani’s any day of the week’
Stormy Daniels’ claim of an affair with US President Donald Trump has no credibility because she is an adult film star, and first lady Melania Trump “knows it’s not true”, Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has said.
Giuliani’s comments, made Wednesday at a financial conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, drew a heated response on Thursday from Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who called for the president to immediately fire Giuliani.
At the conference, Giuliani was asked whether he and Trump respect women. Giuliani said that they did. He was then asked whether they respected Daniels.
“Ah, Stormy the credible source,” Giuliani said. “I don’t believe her. I don’t know, sue me Stormy, I don’t believe you.”
Daniels has said she had sex with Trump in 2006, just months after his wife, Melania, gave birth to their son Barron. She is fighting to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 election.
Trump has denied Daniels’s contention, and Giuliani said that the US$130,000 Trump paid Daniels for her silence “tells me it’s not true”.