Stormy Daniels is now free to talk about Trump as much as she wants

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The saga of the president and the porn star may finally be at an end.

A federal judge tossed out Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen, on Thursday, a move that all but confirms she won’t have to pay Trump millions of dollars for breaking a nondisclosure agreement over an affair Daniels says the two had in 2006, when Melania Trump was pregnant with Barron.

Daniels had filed the lawsuit a year ago, in an attempt to free herself of the $130,000 hush agreement paid by Cohen to keep her quiet about the affair before the 2016 election. Under the terms of the agreement, she’d have to pay $1 million every time she spoke out. But Trump and Cohen haven’t moved to sue Daniels and have no plans to do so, even though she's talked about the alleged affair repeatedly — which pretty much renders the point of the lawsuit moot, as Judge S. James Otero pointed out in his decision Thursday.

“There is no ‘case or controversy’ because [Daniels] has received exactly what she wanted — proof that the agreement is not enforceable,” wrote Otero, a U.S. district court judge in Los Angeles. He found that the district court also lacked jurisdiction over the matter and remanded the case back to the court where it was originally filed, essentially ending the case.