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mia

(8,360 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 06:40 AM Mar 2018

Stormy Daniels is playing Donald Trump at his own game.

Trump White House finally taken by Storm(y)

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
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Stormy Daniels is playing Donald Trump at his own game. (Original Post) mia Mar 2018 OP
Check your link. lamp_shade Mar 2018 #1
Thank you. Fixed it. n/t mia Mar 2018 #2
Trump is the modern incantation of the classic saying of "Those who live in glass houses . . . " no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #3
Well, who would have Scarsdale Mar 2018 #4
Organizational structures throughout America bucolic_frolic Mar 2018 #7
How Soon Will We Hear That Stormy Is Being Financially Backed By.... global1 Mar 2018 #16
..... trusty elf Mar 2018 #8
more like a straw house and he has a flame thrower. LOL nt Javaman Mar 2018 #23
I'm a big fan of Stormy Daniels and safeinOhio Mar 2018 #5
THAT is funny! Nice emoji too. DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #10
I really don't samplegirl Mar 2018 #6
You mean a "Republican controlled congress" DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #12
Before election I heard that he said that he could kill someone and no one would do anything about i Stargazer99 Mar 2018 #28
I just love the fact that this is all playing out in the press... machoneman Mar 2018 #9
Maybe bucolic_frolic Mar 2018 #11
I think... OneGrassRoot Mar 2018 #17
Just because she's a porn star doesn't mean she lacks morals EffieBlack Mar 2018 #20
+1 nt Javaman Mar 2018 #24
she could give the 130K back gopiscrap Mar 2018 #27
Get off on downing Stormy? Or are you just planting ideas thinking Demos can't Stargazer99 Mar 2018 #29
He waited until a few weeks before the election to hush this up? bucolic_frolic Mar 2018 #13
I am embarrassed that he is in the white house. TNNurse Mar 2018 #14
Good for Her! I Hope She Prevails in Court. dlk Mar 2018 #15
Her attorney certainly Corgigal Mar 2018 #18
This might be the occasion when settling on the cheap backfires BIGLY. Vinca Mar 2018 #19
$130000 is chump change... GopherGal Mar 2018 #30
Can't even buy a new office door for that #Zinke Arazi Mar 2018 #31
Daniels is using Trump's prejudice agaisn women against him. She's a lot smarter than he is. Nitram Mar 2018 #21
She's in it for the money and that's perfect Johnny2X2X Mar 2018 #22
She may be buying her freedom... Orsino Mar 2018 #25
Poetic justice cilla4progress Mar 2018 #26

no_hypocrisy

(46,080 posts)
3. Trump is the modern incantation of the classic saying of "Those who live in glass houses . . . "
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:25 AM
Mar 2018

He severely criticized Anthony Weiner (a "disgrace&quot and Bill Clinton for their choices, yet he expected his past would stay buried.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
4. Well, who would have
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:33 AM
Mar 2018

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)
7. Organizational structures throughout America
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:46 AM
Mar 2018

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)
16. How Soon Will We Hear That Stormy Is Being Financially Backed By....
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:40 AM
Mar 2018

George Soros to embarrass the president. You just got to feel they will use anything to protect Trump.

samplegirl

(11,476 posts)
6. I really don't
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:41 AM
Mar 2018

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!

machoneman

(4,006 posts)
9. I just love the fact that this is all playing out in the press...
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:48 AM
Mar 2018

...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?

OneGrassRoot

(22,920 posts)
17. I think...
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:42 AM
Mar 2018

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)
20. Just because she's a porn star doesn't mean she lacks morals
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:53 AM
Mar 2018

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)
27. she could give the 130K back
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:32 PM
Mar 2018

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)
29. Get off on downing Stormy? Or are you just planting ideas thinking Demos can't
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:27 PM
Mar 2018

figure out your technique?

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
13. He waited until a few weeks before the election to hush this up?
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:05 AM
Mar 2018

So he really didn't expect to become president, did he?

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
14. I am embarrassed that he is in the white house.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:31 AM
Mar 2018

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.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
18. Her attorney certainly
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:43 AM
Mar 2018

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)
19. This might be the occasion when settling on the cheap backfires BIGLY.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 08:46 AM
Mar 2018

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.

Johnny2X2X

(19,038 posts)
22. She's in it for the money and that's perfect
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 09:57 AM
Mar 2018

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)
25. She may be buying her freedom...
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 11:50 AM
Mar 2018

...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)
26. Poetic justice
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 11:53 AM
Mar 2018

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.



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