MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow drops fresh claim about Trump and Stormy Daniels with 20 days to go until election

Donald Trump’s legal team has been trying to convince Stormy Daniels to sign a new nondisclosure agreement, according to a report dropped by Rachel Maddow with just 20 days to go until the election.

The liberal pundit appeared on MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes’ show Wednesday night and aired a recording of a conversation between Daniels and her attorney, Clark Brewster.

“They want to make a deal where they silence you,” Brewster says. “There’s no way, no way. I can’t let you do that.’

The discussion concerns negotiations between the two sides over the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees Daniels owed Trump following her failed defamation case against him in 2018.

Despite Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, making enough money through a Gofundme page to pay his legal fees, it is claimed his lawyers have offered to reduce the amount owed in exchange for a new non-disclosure agreement.

“Amid these negotiations to pay off the latest legal settlement between them, Trump is attempting to reach another hush money deal with Stormy Daniels before this election,” Maddow said, citing the porn star’s lawyers.

Maddow believes Trump has “once again demanded that Stormy Daniels sign an agreement not to talk about him, offering to withdraw thousands of dollars from her account if she does.”

She also produced an email allegedly between Trump attorney Harry J. Ross and Brewster.

“We do not agree that a $600,000 payment would fully satisfy the three judgments. However… we may agree to settle these cases for $600,000 provided your client agrees in writing not to make any public or private statements,” the email said.

According to the emails, they eventually came to a deal for a little more without signing any kind of agreement.

IIn response to the claims, the Trump campaign told Maddow: “These alleged documents were obtained as part of an illegal foreign hacking attack on President Trump and his team.

“We are working with authorities to determine legal consequences for those likely to commit federal violations by posting and using stolen material by opponents of the terrorist regime. Ms. Daniels has been held accountable because she must pay President Trump on top of the money she owes him as a result of her wrongdoing.”

Maddow maintains that the emails between Daniels’ lawyers and Trump’s representatives came directly from Daniels himself.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which prosecuted Trump for hush money payments to Daniels, had no comment on Maddow’s findings.

This comes months after Trump was convicted of all 34 crimes in his successful hush-money trial, in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying company records.

The lawsuit came about in April 2018 after Daniels released a sketch of a man who threatened her in Las Vegas in 2011.

Daniels attempted to appeal the decision in 2022, saying her attorney Michael Avenatti filed the charges “without my consent and against my will.”

A judge ruled against her and left her to pay Trump’s massive legal fees in the case.

According to her, he told her to “leave Trump alone.”

This alleged threat allegedly occurred years after Daniels claimed she had an affair with Trump in 2006.

Trump responded on Twitter, calling her claims a “total scam.”

Weeks after tweeting that rebuke, Daniels sued him in federal court.

In October 2018, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero dismissed the lawsuit, saying Trump’s tweet amounted to a “hyperbolic statement.”

Otero also said Trump’s statement was protected under the First Amendment.

She also claimed that Trump’s defense team showed her address to the entire courtroom while she was testifying in the case.

In her testimony as a key witness for the prosecution, she described the lurid details of their alleged 2006 hotel encounter, which included mention of condoms, spanking and missionary sex.

She also told the court that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” had given her $130,000 to keep her quiet about the alleged affair, which allegedly happened while Melania Trump was pregnant with their son Baron.

Daniels claims she met Trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Trump has denied the affair dozens of times.