{"id":689,"date":"2018-03-21T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:23:12","slug":"allegations-from-women-in-his-past-shadow-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Allegations from women in his past shadow Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
By\u00a0Catherine Lucey \/ Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n
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Published:\u00a0Wednesday, March 21st, 2018<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n
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\n<\/a>\u00a0In this March 15, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump is seeking to invalidate an agreement that prohibited her from discussing the relationship. The woman, Karen McDougal, filed a lawsuit Tuesday, March 20 in Los Angeles against the company that owns supermarket tabloid National Enquirer. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, File)<\/span><\/section>\n
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DEVELOPING STORY \u2014\u00a0<\/span>This story will be updated as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The chorus of women from President Donald Trump\u2019s past is getting louder.<\/p>\n

Accusations about Trump\u2019s past sexual exploits bubbled up on three fronts Tuesday, with two women pressing court cases and a porn actress publicly needling the president. Trump has so far weathered the rising #MeToo movement, but the latest developments served as a fresh reminder about the shadow thrown by questions about the thrice-married businessman\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

In short order on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

\u2013A former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006 filed a lawsuit in California seeking to invalidate a confidentiality agreement so she can discuss her alleged relationship.<\/p>\n

\u2013A New York City judge ruled that a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d can move forward while Trump is in office. She has accused Trump of unwanted sexual contact.<\/p>\n

\u2013Porn actress Stormy Daniels and her lawyer continued their media campaign against Trump as she seeks to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election so she can discuss their relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople DO care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, etc.,\u201d Daniels tweeted.<\/p>\n

Trump has consistently denied accusations from all three women. He has previously called his accusers \u201cliars\u201d and has deemed such reports \u201cmade up stuff.\u201d But it was another distraction for a White House already contending with a rash of high-level departures and a stalled legislative agenda.<\/p>\n

But the women aren\u2019t going away. The former Playboy model Susan McDougal is set to do an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN Thursday. And Daniels \u2014 whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford \u2014 has taped an interview with CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d expected to air soon.<\/p>\n

McDougal\u2019s attorney appeared on NBC on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaren McDougal had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump for 10 months,\u201d said Peter Stris. \u201cIt was a romantic relationship. They were together very often.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some longtime allies questioned whether the accusations would have much impact. More than a dozen women came forward during the 2016 campaign to say that Trump had harassed them or worse, many speaking out in the wake of the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape in which he was heard bragging about groping women. Some of them spoke out again as the #MeToo movement took off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we learned through the campaign something we never thought was true. People were able to bifurcate the person from the policies,\u201d said former campaign adviser Barry Bennett. \u201cThey were willing to overlook the personal behavior or the words on tape.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of the Playboy model, Karen McDougal filed suit Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against American Media Inc., the company that owns the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer. It had paid her $150,000 during the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuit alleges that McDougal was paid for the rights to her story of an affair, but the story never ran. It also alleges that Trump\u2019s attorney, Michael Cohen, was secretly involved in her discussions with American Media.<\/p>\n

McDougal\u2019s lawsuit was filed on the same day a New York judge sided with Summer Zervos, a 2006 \u201cApprentice\u201d contestant. She sued Trump after he dismissed as \u201cfabricated\u201d and \u201cmade-up\u201d her claims of misconduct at a hotel in Beverly Hills, California, in 2007. Her lawsuit sought an apology and at least $2,914.<\/p>\n

In saying the suit can go forward, Judge Jennifer Schecter wrote, \u201cNo one is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s lawyers had argued the Constitution immunized him from being sued in state court while he\u2019s president and had said the case should at least be delayed until he\u2019s out of office. They said their position was supported by a long line of Supreme Court cases requiring courts to show deference to the president and his schedule.<\/p>\n

In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that a sitting president was not immune from civil litigation on something that happened before taking office and was unrelated to the office. The ruling came after Paula Jones filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. That case was dismissed by a judge, but was appealed. The appeal was still pending when Clinton agreed to pay $850,000 to Jones to settle the case. He did not admit wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Also Tuesday, an attorney for Daniels \u2014 her real name is Stephanie Clifford \u2014 tweeted what he described as a 2011 photo of Clifford taking a lie detector test during which she addressed her relationship with Trump. Lawyer Michael Avenatti added the hash tags #searchforthetruth, #whosenext? and #buckle-up.<\/p>\n

Daniels and McDougal have offered strikingly similar stories about their alleged relationships with Trump. Both women claim to have had sexual encounters with him in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 2006. McDougal, who was the 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, said Trump also brought her to his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.<\/p>\n

In a time of rising concern about the treatment of women, the president has repeatedly offered sympathy for men accused of misconduct.<\/p>\n

After White House aide Rob Porter was pushed out over public reports that two ex-wives had accused him of abuse, Trump praised Porter and then appeared to cast doubt on the ex-wives\u2019 allegations. The president last year backed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was accused of pursuing romantic relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, saying that Moore \u201ctotally denies it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter\u2019s exit put White House leadership under a harsh spotlight, raising questions about the security clearance process, and prompting calls for the president to state his support for victims of domestic violence. A week later, Trump declared he was \u201ctotally opposed to domestic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associated Press writers Mike Balsamo in Los Angeles and Colleen Long in New York City contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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