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https://www.vox.com/2018/3/25/17162750/stormy-daniels-foreign-blackmail-60-minutes-anderson-cooper-donald-trumpStormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview raises two critical questions she cant answer
Are there other women? And who else knows about them?
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com Mar 25, 2018, 9:17pm EDT
Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview was, in its way, fascinating. But it ultimately failed to shed light on the two most interesting questions posed by this entire imbroglio, presumably because Daniels herself doesnt know the answer.
How many other sexual partners has Trump paid hush money to?
How many foreign intelligences services know about one or more of those women?
Its obviously possible that shortly after his third wife gave birth to his fifth child, Donald Trump began the one and only adulterous affair of his life and then had his longtime lawyer/fixer write her a six figure check to shut her up.
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And while that put Daniels under pressure, it means that entities with more power and sophistication than an adult film actress can use those secrets to put pressure on Trump. The president has successfully cultivated an image as so flaky and incompetent, that his many baffling decisions on the world stage from leaking Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister to undercutting his own administrations policy on Qatar to mysteriously leaving Japan off a list of allies exempted from steel tariffs generally get written off as evidence that Trump is flaky and incompetent, rather than being actively manipulated by foreign actors.
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VOX: Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview raises two critical questions she cant answer (Original Post)
emulatorloo
Mar 2018
OP
I can believe not only that the pee tape is real but he's throwing the country off a cliff for it.
hedda_foil
Mar 2018
#2
Exactly. He seems to have gone after every woman that reminded him of Ivanka. nt
SunSeeker
Mar 2018
#4
MadCrow
(155 posts)1. Good questions!
Maybe Mueller knows. Of course he won't say until the time is right - which is soon I hope.
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)2. I can believe not only that the pee tape is real but he's throwing the country off a cliff for it.
msongs
(67,193 posts)3. one and only? hmm seems there are a lot more than one and only nt
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)4. Exactly. He seems to have gone after every woman that reminded him of Ivanka. nt
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)5. Well said!
-Puzzler