I think it was because her and Avenatti came after him a few weeks before the 2016 Election, threatening to go public with the picture from the golf course and their wild tale of a Trump affair. Trump had already invested millions of his own dollars and two years of his time and energy into his campaign and a juicy story about a porn star named Stormy Daniels could have been enough to derail it all, especially with a corrupt corporate media that would run with anything.

At that point, and in that specific circumstance, does it make sense to pay the grifters their chump change to protect your investment, especially when you know that clearing your name in the court of public opinion is going to take months, and the election is in weeks.

Trump has always denied it and many Trump supporters say he is lying but I actually think he might be telling the truth. She doesn’t seem like his type, and if he really did want to sleep with a whore, couldn’t he pay for someone much more beautiful? She doesn’t even look like his type.