CNN’s Smerconish: When Stormy ‘Took the Check and Cashed It, There Was a Binding Agreement’

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SMERCONISH: "I think that Michael Cohen — who by the way, as you know, has not been out defending himself in this regard, sometimes gets undersold. I scrutinized that settlement agreement. I myself have negotiated and litigated settlement agreements much less sophisticated than the one that was used to resolve the case with Stormy Daniels. In fact, Alisyn, I'll tell you something. What strikes me about it is that this was negotiated about 10 days before Election Day. Presumably Michael Cohen was a very busy man at that time, and yet it is a very sophisticated agreement. It is not boiler plate. It kind of makes me wonder if it had been used in the past. And it has language in it expressly saying 'and/or.' It  has language in it that allows Donald Trump not to be a part of the contract. And by the way, why didn’t Stormy Daniels, at the time she was given a check for $130,000, say, 'I’m not going to take this check until you sign the contract.' When she took the check and she cashed it, there was a binding agreement.”