Trump Wins The ‘Storm’: Case Against The President By Adult Film Actress Knocked Down By Judiciary

A federal judge has dismissed the defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump filed by adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles ruled that Trump’s speech is protected under the US Constitution as the kind of “rhetorical hyperbole” common in US politics and public discourse, as reported by The Washington Post. The judge also ordered Daniels to pay Trump’s legal fees , .

The lawsuit claimed that President Trump defamed Stormy Daniels when he suggested that she had lied about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged relationship.

Trump attorney Charles Harder welcomed the decision saying, “No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr Avenatti, can truthfully characterise today’s ruling in any way other than a total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels,” in an email statement.

The ruling comes as a setback for Daniels and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who is contemplating a Presidential bid in 2020 based on a national profile built by waging legal battles against the president.

Avenatti, however, said on Twitter that the ruling did not affect Daniels’s primary case against Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen, which seeks to invalidate her 2016 nondisclosure agreement. In another Tweet, he said that any fees Trump might be awarded from the defamation case would “be dwarfed by the fees he and Cohen will be required to pay in connection with the NDA case.”