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Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images The Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump paid off a porn star with hush money ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Legal experts say there's pretty much nothing about such a payment that would put Trump in legal jeopardy. The Wall Street Journal published a salacious story on Friday alleging that President Donald Trump paid $130,000 in hush money through his lawyer to a porn star a month before the election to keep her quiet about a 2006 sexual encounter. If that is indeed true, legal experts say that while the morality and ethics of the situation are questionable, such a payment is not something that could land Trump in legal jeopardy — even as he occupies the nation's highest office. "I don't see any legal implications," said renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz in an email to Business Insider on Tuesday. The allegations in the Journal's story were eye-popping: That one of Trump's top lawyers, Michael Cohen, sent $130,000 to porn star Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, just weeks before the 2016 presidential election.