Can Team Trump Stop Stormy Daniels' '60 Minutes' Interview?

[DonViejo]

Trump and his lawyers have not yet filed a lawsuit against CBS over its Stormy Daniels interview. Leading lawyers say it would be pointless, and counterproductive, to do so.

LLOYD GROVE
03.15.18 5:19 AM ET

As Donald Trump’s presidency relentlessly demonstrates, there’s no business like reality-show business.

The tabloid-ready squabbling between lawyers representing porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s faithful acolyte Michael Cohen—featuring an anonymously sourced lawsuit threat against CBS News’ 60 Minutes and even cameo appearances by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bubba the Love Sponge Clem—has predictably mesmerized the mainstream media.

How could it not? After all, Trump’s alleged fling more than a decade ago with a busty blonde adult film actress has metastasized into a solemn discussion of potential election-law violations and First Amendment protections for the Fourth Estate, as Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) pursues a sensational lawsuit against the president to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement concerning her claim of sexual relations with the then-star of NBC’s The Apprentice (PDF).

“The Trump model of ‘just deny and attempt to make these women out to be liars’ is not very effective as a legal strategy in this day and age,” said Washington attorney Joseph Cammarata, one of the lawyers who represented Paula Jones in her 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton—which ultimately resulted in the 42nd president’s impeachment.

“You’ve got defamation claims available, courts that are receptive to claims against the president of the United States for unofficial business, and a skeptical public,” Cammarata added. “The more you peel back the onion, the worse it gets. At some point there may be an opportunity to depose Mr. Trump, and he’s going to have a tough time dealing with all this stuff.”

Media lawyer Charles Glasser, meanwhile, said about the spicy melodrama involving the president and his minions: “This whole thing is a trough of slop, and every pig who thinks he’s got a meal coming is running to the trough.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Steele and Stormy can expose chief traitor to be a degenerate, liar, pile of shit.

Nothing legal will come from Stormy I assume other than he is blackmail-able obviously.

GOP christian voters dont care if chief traitor orders the deaths of millions, as long as he does away with abortion.

[MineralMan]

2. They can try. It's up to CBS, really.

Prior restraint is a violation of the 1st Amendment. CBS must decide whether or not it will be restrained.

I suggest they decide to air this interview. I hope they do.

[DBoon]

3. Maybe

If a CBS executive has a mysterious fall from a hotel window, that might be enough pressure.

A nerve gas agent would also do the job.

I wish I was just being sarcastic, but reality has gotten very ugly

[roscoeroscoe]

9. Horse's head

Go with the classic

[DBoon]

11. This is Trump we are talking about

I think the other end of the horse would be more fitting

[roscoeroscoe]

12. Nice

You'se right!

[unblock]

4. They really have no right to gag the media.

They can make stormy pay, perhaps, if they care to sue and acknowledge that Donnie is a party to the contract and that the information divulged was the confidential information contemplated in the contract.

Not clear Donnie will do even that, but even if he did, it would be after 60 minutes aired it.

[Orsino]

13. And the handlers, at least, realize that taking public notice of her is a losing play.

No doubt the Toddler-in-Chief is yelling about it, but I think we won't see any attempt at a debarring.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. It is all up to CBS,

we have only what happened to Dan Rather as a Example of Political Pressure can bare. Again,we are seeing how free advertising of the Trump Campaign might or might play out at a later time.

[patricia92243]

6. CBS must be loving it, All that free advertising equals high ratings,

[poboy2]

14. pump up the hype and anticipation before release for maximum effect. -nt

[SeattleVet]

7. "Pointless AND counterproductive"??

Why, then of COURSE they'll do it.

Most of the rest of the crap they do is either pointless OR counterproductive, but this is a rare chance to get both in one package, so they get a 'two-fer'.

[gratuitous]

8. I agree

In addition to the pointless and counterproductive exacta, Trump gets the trifecta of complaining about liberal or crooked judges ruling against him just because of the judge's slavish devotion to the law.

[yellowcanine]

10. Nope. Prior restraint is unconstitutional. And the agreement is not binding on 60 Minutes.

Trump's only recourse is to convince Daniels not to do the interview. They can sue her afterward for breaking the contract if they wish but they cannot stop the interview if she wants to do it.