Pence: Allegations of Trump affair with adult film star are 'baseless'

Vice President Pence on Monday dismissed allegations that President TrumpDonald John TrumpDems flip Wisconsin state Senate seat Sessions: 'We should be like Canada' in how we take in immigrants GOP rep: 'Sheet metal and garbage' everywhere in Haiti MORE had an extramarital affair with an adult film star as “baseless.” 

 

Pence told The Associated Press in an interview that he was “not going to comment on the latest baseless allegations against the president.”

 

Pence made the comments while traveling in Israel during a three-nation tour of the Middle East. 

 

 

The vice president is the highest-ranking administration official to react to the allegations, which have renewed scrutiny of Trump’s personal life and treatment of women. 

 

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, formed a shell company to arrange a six-figure payment to the adult film actress, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, to ensure she did not speak out about the alleged relationship during the 2016 campaign.

 

Cohen and the White House have denied that Trump had an affair with Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. 

 

“This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client,” Cohen said in a statement to the Journal. “You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year; a narrative that has been consistently denied by all parties since at least 2011.” 

 

Last week, InTouch published excerpts from a 2011 interview with Daniels in which she claimed she had a sexual encounter with Trump back in 2006, when he was married to Melania TrumpMelania TrumpFox News held story before election on Trump relationship with adult-film star: report Trump’s first year in office was the year of the woman Adult film star: Trump and Stormy Daniels invited me to 'hang out' MORE.

 

“[The sex] was textbook generic,” Daniels told the magazine. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me.’ ”