March 09, 2018 01:38 PM UTC

Attorney Used Trump Email Account for Porn Star Payoff

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• by: Colorado Pols

As NBC News reports, Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen made one hell of a stupid mistake:

President Donald Trump’s personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.

The lawyer, Michael Cohen, also regularly used the same email account during 2016 negotiations with the actress — whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford — before she signed a nondisclosure agreement, a source familiar with the discussions told NBC News.

And Clifford’s attorney at the time addressed correspondence to Cohen in his capacity at the Trump Organization and as “Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump,” the source said.

Cohen has gone to great effort to try to distance President Trump from an alleged payout to porn star Stormy Daniels to be quiet about a sexual relationship several years ago, but it appears that he may have skipped one very important step:

In a statement last month, Cohen said he used his “personal funds to facilitate a payment” to Clifford (Daniels), who says she had an intimate relationship with Trump a decade ago.

“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen said in that statement.

But an email uncovered in the last 24 hours and provided to NBC News by Clifford’s current attorney, Michael Avenatti, shows First Republic Bank and Cohen communicated about the money using his Trump company email address, not his personal gmail account.

Donald Trump has managed to weather every scandal or accusation that has come his way since he first became a candidate for President in 2015. It would be oddly fitting if this is the thing that finally takes him down.