# So how much money has Stephanie Clifford made over Trump? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857 "2018-05-26T17:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/21 "2018-05-31T22:57:07Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Why is that “amazing”? AFAICT the payoff and NDA were made precisely in order to ensure that Trump’s opponents **wouldn’t** find out about it. :rolleyes: And of course, campaigns don’t have whole sections dedicated to digging up dirt on the opposition, dirt which is buried much deeper than this, what appears to be a pretty boilerplate NDA and payoff. Unless you think that such things are always effective regardless of what scrutiny a candidate’s past may be subjected to. In which case that is shockingly naive. > [@](#): > > If you’re trying to suggest that Daniels’s story was made up for purposes of profit after the election, then you need to explain why Trump’s personal lawyer has admitted to having paid Daniels a large sum of money in October 2016. Where the hell have I suggested that?:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/22 "2018-07-12T08:06:46Z")
Update: She apparently got arrested at[a strip club.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels/adult-film-star-stormy-daniels-arrested-in-ohio-strip-club-setup-lawyer-idUSKBN1K20IM) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/23 "2018-07-12T14:27:12Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I am amazed that none of Trump’s primary and GE opponents found out about this. I know I’m responding to an old comment, but there’s a difference between what political opponents know and what they can prove. I’m sure other political campaigns had investigated Trump and had heard that he had an affair with Clifford. But how could they use it? If they announced it, Trump would have denied it and, at that point, Clifford would have too. People would have then been free to believe this was just a baseless attack on Trump. Opponents could have thrown it out as a rumor but let’s face facts, there were plenty of rumors about Trump having affairs out there. Trump himself fueled that fire. Adding another rumor to the mix wasn’t going to damage Trump any further. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/24 "2018-07-12T19:19:34Z")
Yeah, but you never know how everything is going to actually play out and what may stick. In the campaign the biggest quake felt by the Trump campaign was the Access Hollywood Tape. Which in relative terms is rather “meh” compared to the other things he said which did not have such an effect. If they had known they would have found ways to release it. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/25 "2018-07-12T19:36:51Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Update: > She apparently got arrested at[a strip club.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels/adult-film-star-stormy-daniels-arrested-in-ohio-strip-club-setup-lawyer-idUSKBN1K20IM) Charges [dropped.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/stormy-daniels-arrested-in-ohio/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/26 "2018-07-12T20:16:53Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > As to “quantum sum”, check [quantum - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum) and keep in mind where AK84 is from. His use of the word in that context apparently is normal there. I understood what he meant, but thought it was a rather non-standard usage, but it’s the top entry in English on Wikitionary, so it must get a lot of play there. When I read this a month or so ago, I thought, “hmmmm…the phrase sounds like something I’ve heard before, but where …” Now I’ve heard it used four times by three different people since Monday. Two of the three are Indian (one was German-Indian, but mostly raised in India as a child - his German accent is most unusual) while the third was Pakistani, I think (my familiarity with East Indian family names is incomplete). Coincidentally, I asked two Indian engineers I work with what they thought of the phrase: one thought it was odd I would even ask the question (“what would you say instead?”) while the other insisted it was “something my parents might say…but then they’re pretty old” (he’s 27 :eyeroll: ) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/27 "2018-07-12T21:04:18Z")
I just popped in to say, I am a great admirer of Ms.Daniels. One of the few people who Trump wasn’t able to stiff! She won my heart in the initial twitter battles, where nothing the trolls could come up with fazed her in the slightest. She couldn’t be shamed, intimidated, or shut up, and not only that, she clearly was enjoying herself immensely. We could use more like her. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857/28 "2018-07-12T21:38:23Z")
> [@](#): > > One of the few people who Trump wasn’t able to stiff! Was the double entendre intentional? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-has-stephanie-clifford-made-over-trump/814857.md?page=1)