How Trump can sow legal chaos at CBS over the Stormy Daniels story

Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations.

Trump and Daniels purportedly have a nondisclosure agreement in place. Trump could sue CBS for inducing Daniels to break the agreement by speaking.

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To win on this claim, Trump would need to prove the following basic elements, which are a bit different from state to state:

The existence of a contractual relationship between two parties.
Knowledge of that relationship by a third party.
Intent of the third party to induce a party to the relationship to breach the relationship.
Lack of any privilege on the part of the third party to induce such a breach.
The contractual relationship is breached.
Damage to the party against whom the breach occurs.

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