AFP, Washington :
US President Donald Trump accused porn star Stormy Daniels on Wednesday of pulling a “total con job” by releasing an artist’s sketch of a man she said threatened her seven years ago not to talk about their alleged sexual encounter.
While Daniels has been making headlines for weeks with her story about their 2006 affair, Trump had kept uncharacteristically silent until Wednesday.
But the president took to Twitter a day after Daniels released the sketch of a man she said warned her in a Las Vegas parking lot not to talk about their tryst.
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man,” Trump tweeted. “A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it!).”
Trump linked his tweet to one from a fan of the US president who goes by the name “Deplorably Scottish.”
The tweet by @SheenaFoxMusic showed a picture of the sketch side-by-side with one of Daniels with a man who resembles the man in the drawing.
“Oops! This is awkward,” read a caption on the tweet in an apparent attempt to discredit Daniels.
Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, increased a reward meanwhile from $100,000 to $131,000 for information leading to the identify of the man in the sketch.
US President Donald Trump accused porn star Stormy Daniels on Wednesday of pulling a “total con job” by releasing an artist’s sketch of a man she said threatened her seven years ago not to talk about their alleged sexual encounter.
While Daniels has been making headlines for weeks with her story about their 2006 affair, Trump had kept uncharacteristically silent until Wednesday.
But the president took to Twitter a day after Daniels released the sketch of a man she said warned her in a Las Vegas parking lot not to talk about their tryst.
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man,” Trump tweeted. “A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it!).”
Trump linked his tweet to one from a fan of the US president who goes by the name “Deplorably Scottish.”
The tweet by @SheenaFoxMusic showed a picture of the sketch side-by-side with one of Daniels with a man who resembles the man in the drawing.
“Oops! This is awkward,” read a caption on the tweet in an apparent attempt to discredit Daniels.
Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, increased a reward meanwhile from $100,000 to $131,000 for information leading to the identify of the man in the sketch.
