After Trump’s longtime personal lawyer admitted paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election, the actress’s manager suggested a non-disclosure agreement had been broken.

“Everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story,” manager Gina Rodriguez told US media.

Trump’s aide and special counsel Michael Cohen has refused to say why he paid Daniels the vast sum but was not, as he claims, reimbursed by the “Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign.”

Trump declined to comment on the issue. The White House has dodged questions about whether allegations of an affair are true, claiming the matter was dealt with during the campaign.

It has also referred any questions about the payment to Cohen.

Vice President Mike Pence described suggestions of an affair as “the latest baseless allegations against the president.”

Last month, celebrity magazine In Touch published a 2011 interview with Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — in which she details having “textbook generic” sex with Trump.

She recalled meeting Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, shortly after the president’s wife Melania Trump gave birth to their son Barron.

Since the alleged signing of a confidentiality agreement, Daniels has denied the affair took place and then appeared to deny making the denial.

The allegations bubbled away before the election but have resurfaced because of a legal case that claims Cohen’s payment may have broken campaign finance laws.

The lawyer said he did nothing wrong.

“The payment to Ms Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone,” Cohen said.

He declined to say whether Trump was aware of the payment.

Watchdog group Common Cause launched the legal action, saying they have “reason to believe” that money was “an unreported in-kind expenditure… because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general.”

The alleged violation of federal campaign finance law “undermines the integrity of democracy in the United States,” a letter signed by Paul Ryan of Common Cause reads.

– ‘Make America Horny Again’ –

Daniels has been taking advantage of her newfound notoriety.

Last month, she appeared at the Trophy Club strip club in South Carolina as part of a “Make America Horny Again” tour — a tongue-in-cheek reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — that will also reportedly take her to several other states over the next few months.

In a recent appearance on the late night TV talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” — right after Trump delivered his State of the Union address — Daniels deflected questions about the alleged affair and whether she had signed a non-disclosure agreement.

“You can’t say whether you have a non-disclosure agreement. But if you didn’t have a non-disclosure agreement, you most certainly could say, ‘I don’t have a non-disclosure agreement.’ Yes?” Kimmel asked.

“You’re so smart, Jimmy,” Daniels answered.

Later in the interview, Kimmel asked, “Have you ever made love to someone whose name rhymes with Lonald Lump?”

“I’ll call you whatever you want me to call you, baby,” Daniels responded.

Here are some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States in the past three decades:

– Vegas concert: 58 killed –

A 64-year-old man whose father had been on the FBI’s most wanted list in the late 1960s shoots down from his hotel room at a crowd attending an outdoor country music concert on October 1, 2017, killing 58 people and wounding some 546 before committing suicide. It is the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

– Florida club: 49 killed –

A heavily-armed gunman opens fire inside a gay nightclub in the city of Orlando on June 12, 2016 and kills 49 people. The attacker is killed in a shootout with police. He pledges allegiance to the Islamic State group, which later claims responsibility.

– Virginia Tech: 32 killed –

A 23-year-old student of Korean descent goes on a rampage at Virginia Tech University in the town of Blacksburg in April 2007. He kills 27 students and five teachers before committing suicide.

– Sandy Hook: 26 killed –

A 20-year-old man kills his mother in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 before blasting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and shooting dead 20 six- and seven-year old children and six adults. He commits suicide.

– Texas church: 26 killed –

A gunman shoots dead 26 worshippers during Sunday services and wounds at least 20 others at a Baptist church in the small rural community of Sutherland Springs outside San Antonio, Texas on November 5, 2017. Police say the shooter was found dead in his car.

– Texas restaurant: 22 dead –

In October 1991, a man shoots dead 22 people at a restaurant in the town of Killeen, Texas and then kills himself. Another wounded victim dies later.

– Florida high school: 17 dead –

A 19-year-old man who was expelled from high school for disciplinary reasons returned to the building in Parkland, Florida and opened fire on February 14, 2018, killing at least 17 people.

– California office party: 14 dead –

A radicalized Muslim couple storm a Christmas office party at a social services center in San Bernardino in December 2015 and gun down 14 people, wounding 22 others. They are shot dead by police.

– Fort Hood military base: 13 dead –

In November 2009, a US army psychiatrist opens fire at his military base in Killeen, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 42, before being overpowered by police.

– New York immigrant center: 13 dead –

A Vietnamese immigrant shoots dead 13 people at a civic center in Binghamton, New York in April 2009, before killing himself.

– Columbine High: 13 dead –

Two teenage boys shoot and kill 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in April 1999, before killing themselves.

– Washington Navy Yard: 12 dead –

A former serviceman shoots randomly at workers at the Washington Navy Yard headquarters in September 2013, killing 12 people before he is shot dead by officers.

– Denver cinema: 12 dead –

A young man wearing body armor storms a cinema showing a late-night premiere of a Batman film in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, opening fire and releasing tear gas. Twelve people are killed and 70 wounded. He is sentenced to life in prison.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel identified the gunman as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland who had been expelled for “disciplinary reasons.”

Cruz was arrested without incident in the nearby town of Coral Springs after the Valentine’s Day rampage and taken to hospital with minor injuries, the sheriff said.

“We have already begun to dissect his websites and things on social media that he was on and some of the things… are very, very disturbing,” Israel said.

“He had countless magazines, multiple magazines, and at this point, we believe he had one AR-15 rifle,” the sheriff added.

Israel said he was uncertain about the exact number of people injured, but at least 14 were taken to hospital and two had died there of their wounds.

The shooting, one of nearly 20 since the start of the year, will once again throw the spotlight on the epidemic of gun violence in the United States and the ready accessibility of weapons in a country with 33,000 gun-related deaths annually.

“This is a terrible day for Parkland,” Israel said, speaking of the city of about 30,000 people, located 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami.

“My very own triplets went to that school.”

A teacher at the school told the Miami Herald that Cruz had been identified previously as a potential threat to his classmates.

“We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him,” math teacher Jim Gard said. “There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.”

A law enforcement source told CBS News that the gunman pulled a fire alarm before opening fire, but Israel said he could not confirm that report.

‘Very scared’

Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky told CNN she had spoken to a number of students after the shooting erupted shortly after 2:00 pm (1900 GMT).

“They were very scared,” she said. “And almost in shock when they came out.”

Asked about security, the Parkland mayor said a police officer is always stationed at the school and there was a “single point of entry.”

Television images showed students, some with their hands in the air, being led out of the school by heavily armed police officers and an armored vehicle filled with a SWAT team on the scene.

One injured victim was seen being placed into an ambulance on a stretcher.

Police officers in helmets, bulletproof vests and armed with automatic weapons could be seen stationed at several points around the sprawling school complex, which serves nearly 3,000 students.

“Just a horrible day for us,” said the superintendent of the county’s school district, Robert Runcie.

The FBI said it was assisting local law enforcement with the investigation.

‘Everyone started running’

Student Jeiella Dodoo told CBS News that she and her schoolmates had evacuated their classroom calmly after hearing what they thought had been a routine fire alarm.

“The alarm went off so we had to evacuate from our classes,” she said. “Then we heard gunshots.

“I heard about six gunshots,” she said, “and then some people started running and then everyone started running because we were like ‘If it’s real, then just run.'”

Teacher Melissa Falkowski told US networks that she had helped 19 students squeeze into a closet with her.

“We were in there for probably 40 minutes. We were locked in the closet until SWAT came and got us,” she told CNN.

No child should ‘feel unsafe’

President Donald Trump offered his “prayers and condolences to the families of the victims.

“No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school,” he said on Twitter.

Since January 2013, there have been at least 291 school shootings across the country — an average of about one school shooting a week, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit group that advocates for gun control.

Since the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were shot dead, warning procedures and emergency drills have multiplied at US schools.

The goal is to teach school children how to react to a shooter who opens fire at random.

“It is pretty clear that we’re failing our kids here,” said Falkowski, the teacher who helped shield her students from harm in a closet.

“I’m not saying the solution is one thing or another, but this does not happen in other countries the way it happens here.”

According to Chinese media, the woman’s bizarre actions startled security officers at the Dongguan Railway Station in China’s southern Guangdong Province last Sunday (Feb 11).

A video shared online shows the woman placing her luggage on the conveyor belt of the machine, before walking through the security scanner with a small handbag.

When told that all her valuables will have to pass through the machine, she turns around and is seen hopping onto the X-ray machine’s conveyor belt.

Two X-ray images show a silhouette of the woman, still in her high heels, kneeling on all fours behind her belongings.

Security camera footage then shows her climbing out of the machine and checking her handbag and luggage before walking away nonchalantly.

It was not clear what the woman was carrying in her handbag.

Local media reported that Dongguan Railway Station staff have advised passengers not to get into X-ray machines as radiation given off by the scanners could be harmful.

The unusual incident happened amid the world’s largest annual human migration as millions of Chinese return to their hometowns for the Chinese New Year which falls on Feb 16.

The long-time Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, said he was not reimbursed for the payment to the actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford and who goes by the stage name of Stormy Daniels, the Times reported.

Cohen told the newspaper the payment was legal but declined to give details such as why he made it or if Trump was aware of the payment at the time.

“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen said, according to the Times.

“The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.” US media reports have said the payment was made one month before the November 2016 election to keep the liaison quiet.

Trump was a private citizen when the 2006 sexual encounter with Clifford allegedly took place. He was married at the time and his wife Melania had given birth to their son less than four months earlier.

The payment was first reported last month by the Wall Street Journal. Cohen’s statement to the Times marked the first time he acknowledged a role in what he termed a “private transaction.”

Trump, through his lawyers, and Clifford, 38, have both denied anything ever went on between them.

But last month the celebrity magazine In Touch published a 2011 interview with Clifford in which she expounds at length and in detail on their relationship and what she described as their “textbook generic” sex.

In that interview, Clifford said she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006 and had a sexual encounter with him then. She said she spoke with Trump on the phone or saw him in person for about a year.

The In Touch interview, which had not been published before, was conducted before Clifford’s alleged signing of a secrecy agreement in October 2016.

Clifford has been taking advantage of her new-found notoriety.

She appeared at the Trophy Club strip club in South Carolina last month as part of a “Make America Horny Again” tour that will also reportedly take her to several other states over the next few months.

In a recent appearance on the late-night TV talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” — right after Trump delivered his State of the Union address — Clifford repeatedly deflected questions about the alleged affair and whether she had signed a non-disclosure agreement.

“You can’t say whether you have a non-disclosure agreement. But if you didn’t have a non-disclosure agreement, you most certainly could say, ‘I don’t have a non-disclosure agreement’. Yes?” Kimmel asked.

“You’re so smart, Jimmy,” Clifford answered.

Later in the interview, Kimmel asked her, “Have you ever made love to someone whose name rhymes with Lonald Lump?” “I’ll call you whatever you want me to call you, baby,” Clifford responded.//AFP