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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStormy Daniels is playing Donald Trump at his own game.
Among the questions left hanging on Thursday morning: Did Trump's team try to stop a damaging scandal emerge just before the 2016 election? Did Trump know about the payment himself? Is the President still involved in what Daniels' lawyer says is an ongoing attempt to intimidate her?
If the mess isn't cleared up soon, it could ding Trump's already compromised image ahead of midterm elections that are crucial to his political fate.
There is so far no evidence of wrongdoing by the President and he has denied the alleged affair.
But as details emerge of a covert litigation battle between Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen and Daniels' representatives, Trump, already fuming at a special counsel probe, could find himself in yet more legal peril....
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-sarah-sanders/index.html
lamp_shade
(14,827 posts)mia
(8,360 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)He severely criticized Anthony Weiner (a "disgrace" and Bill Clinton for their choices, yet he expected his past would stay buried.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)expected a woman to step forward and admit she had an affair with that fat, orange ass?? Maybe she will encourage the other porn stars to come out of their hiding places? Remember, tRump only hires "the best people".
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)would be in peril if pornstar hobbyists were exposed.
Those archives in the cached internet way-back machine have probably been scrubbed.
Just recall what they did to Elliot Spitzer, and she was barely a wannabe.
global1
(25,241 posts)George Soros to embarrass the president. You just got to feel they will use anything to protect Trump.
trusty elf
(7,385 posts)Javaman
(62,517 posts)safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)I have never seen one of her movies.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Stormy has guts. And she puts the "work" in worker!
samplegirl
(11,476 posts)see congress doing anything about it even if he is found guilty. At this point I think he could kill someone and they still would find excuses for it. If this was Hillary just the rumor of it would of had her impeached by now!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Stargazer99
(2,584 posts)machoneman
(4,006 posts)...both here and overseas. Stormy is getting as much mileage out of this as if all the pics, vids, etc. were out in public anyway.
It is a bit odd though as to her motives. I mean, she did get the cash, right? I kinda doubt it's due to any moral issues as heck, she IS a porn star, right? So what is her motive for not keeping quiet? Something else maybe that hasn't been revealed? Can't be true love gone astray now can it? Maybe he gave her a clap?
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)publicity drives video sales? Dunno, but could be.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)a larger payday looms if she is extricated from the contract with Trump. I heard she offered to return the $130k. You know a much larger book deal or something similar is in the offing.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:43 PM - Edit history (1)
She may be a lot more moral than many people who look down their noses at her. And it's very possible that, while her approach to sex is very off-putting to most of us, she is as disgusted by Trump's hypocrisy, boorishness, and corruption as most Americans are, believes he must be exposed, and is willing to risk her safety and well-being to do it.
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)and get way more money re telling her updated narrative or trump forced her to get an abortion and now she's pissed
Stargazer99
(2,584 posts)figure out your technique?
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)So he really didn't expect to become president, did he?
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)I hate to hear the details of how inept and corrupt he is.
HOWEVER, I am fine with every sordid and disgusting detail about his personal life being told world wide. I want him to know that we know, that the world knows. I want him to be humiliated if possible, but mostly I want him RUINED.
dlk
(11,552 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)appears more professional than Sez Who. If this issue ties up Daddy Trump, while Mueller does his work, then I'm all good with it.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)The foreign steelworkers got a small settlement and went away. Stormy's not going anywhere . . . and it sounds like she has photos and/or video. $130,000 is chump change in Trump's crowd. He should have tacked on a couple of more zeros.
GopherGal
(2,008 posts)... you can hardly redecorate an office with that
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Nitram
(22,791 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Daniels is capitalizing, the way I see it this case ends with her paying back the $130K to buy her freedom to say and share whatever she wants about Trump. She's already touring the country for special appearances at Strip Clubs where she's making bank. A tell all book deal in the 7 or 8 figures will easily outweigh the $130K.
She's capitalizing on Trump, good for her. She had to endure sex with that old, wrinkled, disgusting orange pile of vomit. It's only fair she gets paid.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...or has simply realized that she can now sell it again for a lot more.
There may be a secret race now between the tabloids who want her story and the president who wants it buried.
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)if she takes him down.
How you like him now, Paulie and Mitch?
Haha. Tie that dead chicken around your necks for LIFE!
Oh.. also evangelicals.