U.S. President Donald Trump
on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss adult film actress Stormy Daniels’
lawsuit challenging the validity of a $130,000 hush money agreement over a
tryst she claimed they had more than a decade ago.
In a filing with the U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles, Trump’s lawyer said the lawsuit by Daniels,
whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is moot because Trump never signed the
agreement and has said he will not try to enforce it.
“There is no actual
controversy between plaintiff and Mr. Trump,” the president’s lawyer Charles
Harder wrote.
Michael Avenatti, who
represents Daniels, has said keeping the case alive serves the public interest,
and wants Trump to give sworn testimony.
“This was anticipated and
we are not concerned about it,” Avenatti said in an email, referring to the
dismissal request.
Daniels has claimed to have
had a s-xual liaison with Trump at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament at Lake
Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border.
Trump has denied having had
s-x with Daniels. A hearing on his dismissal request is scheduled for Dec. 3.
The case is separate from
Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against Trump over his April tweet challenging as a
“total con job” her claim that an unknown man threatened her in a Las Vegas
parking lot in 2011 if she went public about the alleged tryst.
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