TRUMPINGTON, D.C.—Stormy Daniels still possesses a dress that she wore during her affair with Donald Trump in 2006, and she plans to have the dress tested for DNA samples to prove beyond a doubt that the affair actually took place, according to a report Thursday by the celebrity news site The Blast.
Trump has not publicly commented one way or the other on his alleged affair with the 2014 AVN Hall of Fame inductee. On January 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s personal lawyer. Michael Cohen, arranged a $130,000 “hush money” payment to Daniels just one month before the 2016 presidential election.
After initially denying the story, Cohen acknowledged on Tuesday that he had, indeed, paid $130,000 to Daniels—but claimed that he used his “personal funds” to “facilitate” the payment.
In his statement on Tuesday, Cohen did not specify why he “facilitated” the $130,000 payment to Daniels, only that the payment was made.
Now, Daniels’ manager Gina Rodriguez says that the performer-turned-director believes that Cohen himself has violated their agreement not to discuss the affair and as a result, Daniels will now tell her side of the story.
According to Thursday’s Blast report, she has the dress that could add a near-certain level of credibility to her story. A report in Britain’s Daily Mail said that Daniels will seek payment in the “six-figure” range to publicly discuss her affair with Trump.
Unlike in the case of the “blue dress” which allegedly connected President Bill Clinton to White House intern Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s, through what was purported to be a semen stain left on the dress by Clinton, Daniels apparently has not claimed that the dress—a sparkly-gold mini-dress with a deep cut neckline—contains evidence of Trump’s ejaculate.
However, according to the report, Daniels believes that the dress may contain other sources of DNA from Trump, and she plans to have the garment forensically tested for DNA evidence. An image of the gold dress, which Daniels has reportedly kept in “pristine condition” can be viewed at this link.
Cohen, known as an unshakeable Trump loyalist, himself acknowledged earlier this week that he is pitching a book to major publishers detailing his decade-plus as Trump’s personal lawyer and “fix-it guy.” Cohen’s book proposal says that he will “clarify” the “unfortunate situation” regarding Stormy Daniels.
