Trump lawyer now claims his statements about Stormy Daniels were just hyperbole

[kpete]

Trump lawyer now claims his statements about Stormy Daniels were just hyperbole
Cohen says not to take him literally or seriously.


A longtime lawyer for President Trump argued in a new court filing this week that he was simply being “hyperbolic” when he suggested adult film actress Stormy Daniels was lying about an affair she claimed to have had with President Trump.

Michael D. Cohen, who has worked with the Trump Organization for close to a decade, is currently being sued by Daniels for defamation. Daniels claims she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006, one year after Trump’s marriage to his third wife, Melania. Daniels said that she was initially pressured not to go public with her story in 2011, and in 2016, after attempting to speak out about the affair once more, was contacted by Cohen and paid $130,000 to stay silent — weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels claimed that the money was part of a non-disclosure agreement she entered into with Cohen, who signed on behalf of the shell company. Trump, however, did not sign the document.

..Daniels’ defamation suit claims that this statement constituted an attack on her character and defamed her because it implied that she had made up the affair. In Monday’s filing, however — first highlighted by USA Today’s Steve Reilly on Twitter — Cohen’s lawyers pushed back, arguing that the statement was not defamatory because Cohen was just playing politics. His lawyers cited an earlier case from 2001, Rosenaur v. Scherer, in which a local political candidate sued his opponent for claiming in a “heated exchange at a shopping center” and in various campaign literature that the plaintiff was a “thief.” The court eventually ruled in the defendant’s favor, arguing that he had only used “loose figurative language and ?hyperbole” and had not insinuated that the plaintiff “actually had a criminal past.”

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[bearsfootball516]

1. Lol

How do you hyperbolically claim someone is lying. That makes absolutely no sense.

[unblock]

2. That's not what "hyperbolic" means.

But I guess the meaning of words isn't important to certain lawyers....

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. This is a defense in certain situations. I know a semi famous person in the media

who won a case claiming the right for hyperbole when discussing something, in this case a corporation/business.

[mac56]

4. "A figurative, hyperbolic expression"

The new "alternative facts"?

[sprinkleeninow]

5. See the remarkably outstanding 'business' of governing and advances in

our Great Nation taking place presently?
I could not have more pride and joy.

[Squinch]

6. A hyperbolic affair... what could that possibly MEAN?????

[MGKrebs]

7. In other words, she's not lying?

[Freethinker65]

8. Trump fucked Stormy and the others and paid them off.

He cheated on his wives and his taxes, cheated subcontractors out of money they earned, defrauded students and property owners at his properties, used his Foundation as a personal slush fund, accepted foreign help to swing an election, is most likely guilty of money laundering, etc.

Stunning that Trump hiring an attorney more stupid than himself is what is getting him into the most trouble.

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. Nice try! You are a f*cking lawyer, Cohen!

There is no such thing as hyperbole in law, dumb ass.