Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who alleges she had an affair with Donald Trump a decade before he was elected president, has told her story. Now the White House and an attorney for Trump’s lawyer are pushing back against her high-profile television appearance by questioning her credibility.

WASHINGTON — After sixty-one weeks in the White House, President Trump has found two people he won’t attack on Twitter: Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

The verbose commander-in-chief has posted more than 2,900 times on Twitter since taking office, using the term “FAKE NEWS” to describe everything from the Russia probe and allegations of chaos in the White House to harassment accusations, the size of his inaugural crowds and heated arguments with world leaders.

But he has been uncharacteristically silent in recent days — to the relief of his advisers — as a pornographic film star and a Playboy model described intimate details of sexual encounters with Mr. Trump. Stormy Daniels, the porn star, said Sunday night on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that she once spanked the president with a copy of Forbes magazine bearing his face on the cover.

For a president who has eagerly attacked just about all of his enemies and accusers, often with colorful nicknames like “Little Rocket Man” for the North Korean leader, “Crazy Joe Biden” or “Sloppy Steve” Bannon, it now appears that only his alleged mistresses and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin are immune to Mr. Trump’s Twitter trash-talk.

The fact that the president has not given oxygen to the headlines, however, does not mean that he’s happy.
 

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