Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actor known as Stormy Daniels, should be heralded as the real impresario of the Michael Cohen plea scenario on Tuesday. Despite brutal personal attacks from men in the highest levels of government, she refused to back down.  Hers is a quintessentially American story: The outsider from the wrong side of the tracks who, armed with only the truth -- and a phenom attorney named Michael Avenatti -- ultimately prevails! 

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