Attorney Michael Avenatti revealed that two more women claim they signed hush money agreements with President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney — and for much more money than the $130,000 paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
The attorney said he’s confident the women’s claims are solid, although they’re not yet his clients and he’s not certain they’ll agree to come forward publicly as Daniels has.
“They’re not fully vetted, but there are at least two I think are on solid ground,” Avenatti told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I think that as the evidence rolls out over the coming months disclosures are going to be made that my client was not alone as relates to these payments.”
He told co-host Mika Brzezinski that these two women were paid more than Daniels to keep quiet about their extramarital affairs with Trump, but he declined to say whether they were paid more than $1 million.
Avenatti said he had not included in that pair a woman paid $1.6 million through Republican donor Elliott Broidy to cover up an abortion, and he said that additional women had made similar claims that he had not yet finished investigating.
“It is a process of vetting,” Avenatti said. “We want to be careful about what we state.”
Avenatti declined to say whether the payments had been made just before the 2016 election, as the payment to Daniels had been, or whether they had been properly reported — but he said they would also be problematic for the president.
“They may create additional exposure,” he said. “They may prove to be problematic.”