"A sketch, years later, about a man who does not exist. An absolute scam, spread by the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! "
With this tweet, US President Donald Trump referred today for the first time to Stormy Daniels, the protagonist of sensual films who claims to have had sex with him.
The US president has remained silent on the case, although he told reporters last month that he did not know about the payment to Daniels.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is in a legal dispute with Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, focusing on the $ 130.000 deal so that she does not make revelations about her sexual relationship, as she claims, 2006 with the American president.
Yesterday, in an interview given to the talk show "The View" on ABC, she published the sketch of a man who complains that he threatened in 2011 herself and her little daughter not to reveal her relationship with Trump.
Trump's lawyers are seeking more than $ 20 million in damages from Daniels for failing to honor their confidentiality agreement.
Her lawyer, Michael Avenati, announced yesterday a fee of $ 100.000 for anyone who provided information about the man in question, today increasing the amount to $ 131.000.
Asked to comment on Trump's tweet, Avenati referred to his own posts today:
"In my experience, there is nothing better in a court battle than having a completely mentally unstable, unruly opponent who tends to shoot himself in the foot. "It always leads to BIG problems, such as new allegations (ie defamation)," Avenati said in one of his posts.