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The lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels said she engaged in a sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006 and claims there’s “no question” the president knew about a $130,000 payoff to keep her quiet.

Michael Avenatti, appearing on NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday, was asked whether Trump and Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, had a sexual relationship.

“Yes,” he said. “She’s looking to disclose the truth about what happened.”

“At this point, in light of the amount of misinformation that Mr. Cohen has put out there to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and others, I think it’s time for her to tell her story and for the public to decide who’s telling the truth,” Avenatti said a day after Daniels filed a lawsuit against the president.

The reference was to Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has said he paid Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket to remain quiet about the affair in October 2016 – just days before the presidential election.

“We think it’s highly questionable as to whether it came from his personal funds,” Avenatti said.

“There’s no question the president knew about it at the time. The idea that an attorney would go off on his own without his client’s knowledge and engage in this type of negotiation and enter into this type of agreement – quite honestly I think is ludicrous.”

Asked for proof of his claim, Avenatti said additional facts and evidence – including images and text messages – that are part of the lawsuit “will come to light.”

At the White House briefing Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if Trump knew about the payment.

“Not that I’m aware of,” she said. “The president has denied the allegations against him, and again this case has already been won in arbitration.”

She provided no evidence of her claim and referred follow up questions to Trump’s attorneys.

Cohen did not immediately return requests for comment.

Another lawyer, John Dowd, said he didn’t know anything “about that.”

Avenatti offered a terse response.

“Sure. And he also won the popular vote,” he said.

Trump’s outside lawyers, Cohen and John Dowd, did not immediately return requests for comment.

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, Daniels claims that Cohen tried to keep her silent as recently as Feb. 27 when he ”surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration” against her but did not give her any notice to respond.

Daniels said the nondisclosure agreement that Cohen negotiated with her on Oct. 28, 2016, is now invalid because Trump – referred to as David Dennison in the court papers – never signed it.

Daniels’ claims a nondisclosure agreement that Cohen negotiated with her is now invalid because Trump – referred to as David Dennison in the court papers – never signed it, freeing her up to talk about the affair.

“Mr. Trump did not sign. We believe that that was so that he could later claim deniability, and therefore, from a legal perspective, we believe she’s free to talk,” the lawyer said.

Avenatti also said Daniels would be willing to pay back the $130,000 if her suit is successful.

“My client doesn’t have a desire to profit from her story,” he said.

Daniels has said she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in July 2006 in Lake Tahoe, Nev., and they began a sexual relationship that lasted into the next year.

The tryst happened just months after Melania Trump gave birth to their son Barron.

Additional reporting by Marisa Schultz