For Those Who Were Disappointed in the 60 Minutes Interview

[MineralMan]

It was not full of salacious details about the encounter between Trump and a porn actress. A lot of people seem to have wanted it to be, but CBS wasn't about to engage in that sort of thing on their broadcast. So, they were disappointed.

However, what we did hear about was a dreary account of an older man and younger woman who did engage in sex. There was a spanking with a magazine, sexual intercourse and that's enough information about that for TV. There was very believable information about a threat made against the woman. There was information about the signing of an NDA in exchange for a fairly large sum of money, an agreement made through coercion and fear, according to this woman.

What we heard about was a tawdry little incident and some threats. It would have been boring, except for the fact that the man in the event is now the President of the United States. A man who cheated on his wife at a time when that wife was having a child of the man. It was a picture of a President who is so afraid of this becoming news that threats were made, signatures given and money exchanged.

I wasn't disappointed. The porn actress was believable. The story is outrageous. Threats? Coercion? We've had other Presidents who were unfaithful to their wives, but nothing like this unseemly chain of events. It's news. It's disgusting. Now, we've seen it, and there's no doubt more to come.

We've seen Donald Trump as a boorish, stupid man who cheated and then tried to cover it up. It's not an uncommon story, but that man is acting as President. Combined with his other terrible flaws, it's enough to realize that he shouldn't be in that position.

[riversedge]

1. I really did not want to hear any intimate details--leave that for later when needed. In the

meantime, enough was said by Story for me. I really want to know more about the payment and its consequences. We shall see.

[MineralMan]

4. That payment will probably be the primary focus in the future.

It's the vulnerability point of this whole ugly business. It looks like mistakes have been made in paying the woman off, and those mistakes are the events that may lead to legal consequences. Trump has always run rough-shod over people. But rarely have the consequences caught up with him. Perhaps they will, in this case.

It's just all part of a growing recognition of Trump's unsuitability for the office he holds.

[Wounded Bear]

15. The money is the key issue IMNSHO...

always follow the money trail. Somebody got paid and somebody paid them. The money came from somewhere.

[MineralMan]

16. Yes, and there's always a trail these days.

Unless someone was handing over bundles of $100 bills at some point, the trail can be followed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

50. And sometimes those bundles of $100 bills can be traced.

Remember Mrs. E. Howard Hunt and the crash of United flight 553 on December 8, 1972?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Trump campaign laundered the $130K through Trump Org and on to Cohen

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210335816

[sheilahi]

75. Fess up Cohen

Okay, now I just want to know where the other 28 cents went!!!!!!!!!

[iluvtennis]

48. Exactly.

[olegramps]

53. His projection of his daughter with these women is troubling at the least.

Does he has some fantasy that he is having sex with his daughter? It could be indications of something even more serious that has transpired in the past? What do you all think about this. It certainly appears to be repulsive to engage in such discussions.

[calimary]

73. He's already on record stating publicly that if Ivanka

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weren’t his daughter, he’d be dating her.
And what does THAT tell you!?!

[Eliot Rosewater]

77. Is he still on board with imprisoning women who have abortions? If so, they dont care.

[getagrip_already]

52. there is a back story interview with cooper on the

60 minutes after show site:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-stormy-daniels-story-matters/

SILVIO: And there were many tawdry details that you and the 60 Minutes team decided to leave out of this story.

COOPER: Yeah. Of course. I mean, yes. There are many, many tawdry details which we did not include in the story because it's just, you know, that's not our interest.

They left a LOT out. According to Josh Marshall at TPM, she discussed how he seemed to like being humiliated/degraded. That would have been an interesting tidbit to slip in.

[femmocrat]

2. What struck me most was the transformation of Stormy.

If anyone saw the Jimmy Kimmel interview, she was trying to be too cute and coy. On 60 Minutes, she was way more natural, even down to her makeup. I imagine that the attorney is trying to improve (or manipulate) her image to make her seem more credible. She was like a different person.

I do wonder about the guy who threatened her in the parking lot. Could it have been long-time trump body guard, Keith Schiller?

[rzemanfl]

5. Vegas is full of guys who would make threats for a fee. n/t

[femmocrat]

7. True.

[LiberalFighter]

94. Is the Mafia still in Vegas?

[rzemanfl]

95. I wouldn't know. There are plenty of others, bouncers, gamblers on a losing streak, etc. n/t

[MineralMan]

6. I wonder if she's seen a photo of Schiller?

Maybe she should look at one.

[femmocrat]

9. Probably, but...

Unlikely that she would accuse him on TV. Maybe the purpose was to make him squirm. Plus, his recent departure from the WH after years of servitude to trump, makes one wonder.

[MineralMan]

10. Oh, well. We'll find out what we find out, I suppose.

The story is far from being over. What gets me is that we have to be hearing about it at all. We truly have an ugly, ugly man in the White House. Feh!

[femmocrat]

14. Yep, there is always more to come.

And every week seems worse than the one before.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. Stephanie Clifford (Daniels) was threatened 2 yrs after her advisers' house & car blew up same night

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210414401

[femmocrat]

102. Wow, thanks.

That is the first I have seen about that development. No wonder she was afraid.

[TygrBright]

62. Bingo. "I would absolutely recognize him again if he walked in here now." n/t

[Motley13]

29. That was the 1st one that came to mind

[mercuryblues]

70. She knows who Schiller is

“Then he asked me if I wanted to have dinner that night. And I was like, ‘Yeah, of course!’” she told In Touch. Stormy, dressed up to go out on the town, arrived at Trump’s hotel room, where she says she was greeted by a bodyguard named Keith, who let her inside. Stormy claims Trump was sprawled on the couch watching TV, wearing pajama pants. “We ended up having dinner in the room,” she revealed to In Touch.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-affair-donald-trump-151571

[EffieBlack]

82. I suspect it was Schiller

[blue cat]

3. It had more effects than can be seen...

Stormy really got under my republican dad's skin. He was angry and calling Stormy a psychopath. I said it takes one to shut up one, and laughed. My republican sisters can't stand to hear anything negative about Trump, and they can't get away from the salacious news about him.

Thanks Stormy!!!

[femmocrat]

11. No psychopath! No psychopath!*

Trump's the psychopath!

*(like "No puppet"!!)

[erronis]

54. My heartfelt best wishes go out to you, blue cat. Having a family like that is "difficult"

We may love some/most of them but may not like to discuss certain issues at all.

Fortunately my siblings are pretty much have a common feeling about the traitorous actions of the repuglicans, mercers/kochs/murdochs/plutocrats. Some other family members get all their news from that one RW controlled T.V. channel.

[ginnyinWI]

8. Yup: CBS is not DU.

They weren't going to become a tabloid with lurid details. The main part of this story was there--the hush money. Might help rip the facade off the Con Man for some people who still believed in him. When the Mueller stuff comes out, this audience will already be softened up.

[mulsh]

12. I agree, like Fitzmas some DU'ers built unreasonable expectations for this interview. I think

it did what her attorney intended it to do, give a bit of information and add more grains of sand under loser don (spanky) the con's skin and call out his hired goons.

[Rorey]

13. I wasn't at all disappointed

I think the story did exactly what it was meant to do. We haven't see the end of this by a long shot. I don't want to know all of the disgusting details, but the threat of them being told is no doubt driving Spanky to the brink of completely losing it, and that's just fine with me.

But in the end, it's the payoff. That's where the real story is.

[Wounded Bear]

17. I didn't watch...

figured I get all the important details here or on MSNBC.

[MineralMan]

19. I watched it. It was handled in a straightforward

way, without any attempts to make it lurid. Typical 60 Minutes style.

[Wounded Bear]

30. That's the impression I got from the few clips I've seen...nt

[Motley13]

18. the maggot fantasizes about Ivanka whenever he has sex, that is salacious enough, gag

that seems to be a common thread

As far as as crime, a threat is a crime , hush money is a crime, campaign finance fraud is a crime.

Stormy can take Kelly's job & when the maggot misbehaves , she can spank him with whatever is at hand with his picture on it, there are many

The thing that is really going to upset him, is she didn't find him attractive!!!!!!!!!!

If anything gets his twitter going, it will be that, lots of insults coming Stormy's way

[MineralMan]

22. You'll notice, though, that that isn't being discussed much.

Everyone's pretty hands-off on the Ivanka thing, and that's been the case all along.

[GoCubsGo]

20. I didn't watch because I didn't expect to learn anything new.

While I was right about that, I know that millions of people who have not been paying attention were watching. They DID have their eyes opened about the sack of shit that was installed as head of our government. Most of his Flying Monkey cult followers still won't care, but there are a hell of a lot more of us than them. Even more now than there were this time yesterday.

[MineralMan]

23. Good point. A lot of people watch 60 minutes

and trust that program. As you say, many won't have been following this very closely.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

21. That's pretty much my take as well!

The interview was damaging. I think that some viewers were disappointed with it not being damaging enough could be because it just seemed like more of the same and you can get accustomed to even outrageous stuff when it's all you hear. But the interview was one more rock on the pile that I hope will bury Trump.

[RockaFowler]

24. 2 women said the same thing about Trump's fascination with Ivanka

That right there made me puke.

"You remind me of my daughter"

It was gross last week when I saw the first interview. The fact that he said it to 2 women - possibly more - is so gross.

[MineralMan]

26. That whole idea is pretty disgusting, isn't it?

It's probably the skeeviest thing about this entire business. The media doesn't like covering that very much. It's just too over-the-top for discussion for most news people.

I don't think that will change, but the image was certainly put in people's minds yesterday evening.

[Scarsdale]

41. I found both women

much more attractive, and intelligent than Ivanka. Who is tRump trying to convince that she is some world class beauty - himself? She has so much Botox and cosmetic surgery she looks like a blowup sex doll. When she is interviewed she has that breathy little Valley Girl voice, and coyly looks off to the side before answering any questions.I wondered if she has a wire from somewhere, telling her how to answer the questions. Not impressed at all.

[erronis]

56. Wires and drugs to keep the dump family well controlled.

I think however, in the sex-object daughter, there is probably a little girl crying to be let out - to be real. But that's probably a fantasy story.

[llmart]

78. "The media doesn't like covering that very much."

Yet it was in our faces 24/7 when President Clinton had a fling.

The media loves skeevy details and don't kid yourselves. The public does too. Maybe you and I don't want to hear about Dump's ugliness in every minute detail, but plenty of people do.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. For those who were disappointed I ask them what were they expecting.

[MineralMan]

27. I think a lot of people were expecting lurid details.

Tabloid stuff. They didn't get it.

[coeur_de_lion]

61. I think the important aspect of the interview

is the pattern of behavior . . . the threats, paying off people, etc.

Lots more where that came from.

I didn't care about lurid details I wanted to know what he did to cover it up.

And I wanted confirmation that his pattern of behavior is that he can't help himself -- he gets himself into very compromising situations panics afterward. Tries to cover it up with threats and money.

I think Putin has caught him in a very compromising situation and that's why he is reluctant to sanction Russia or enforce previous sanctions.

[leftynyc]

39. Proof - her lawyer claims they have it

and until they serve it up, far too many people feel free to ignore it. She's a freaking porn star, people - middle America is going to need something other than her word to believe her.

[Orsino]

74. And yet...now America can see Daniels talking about the matter.

Trump's silence and generic denials, in contrast, will not garner attention. Sure, his handlers will try to make noise with it, but no one will care for his empty protests.

What's worse for his followers is that by not taking on the story directly, Trump reveals himself (again) as weak and ineffectual while everyone watches.

[leftynyc]

88. Sorry, but that's not enough

They don't care that donnie is a hound dog - if you want them to care about the payout and the threat, she's going to have to provide the proof.

[Orsino]

101. It is enough.

As much as we can expect anything to be enough, anyway. If it doesn't exactly peel away Trump voters, it can only dilute their enthusiasm for him. He only "won" by tens of thousands of votes, and has been fucking up ever since.

Stormy isn't impeachment, but she's making it just a little bit more possible, and with modern American politics being a game of inches, she is going to be a factor. She's made the clown-in-chief a bit more clownish than he already was, and has opened the door for more mistresses to tell their stories.

Trump shooting someone on Pennsylvania Avenue wouldn't accomplish much more.

[TNNurse]

28. Were reasonable people really wanting lurid details??

There are "reality" shows for that, 60 Minutes is a news show, it is not on Fox.

And, why would anyone want details of his personal activities or characteristics??? I may lose my breakfast thinking about that.

[Mr.Bill]

32. I'm betting the spanking didn't hurt much

through the padding of the diaper.

[dalton99a]

34. Daniels handled herself well, and Trump is a low-life thug

[yuiyoshida]

35. I don't think it was about the affair but money

illegally donated to the Trump campaign by the lawyer to shut her up. Money way over the limit.

[Lonestarblue]

36. The 60 Minutes interview will not decrease Trumps support with his base.

Trump’s major base is white evangelicals, who believe that women should be seen and not heard, should stay at home and not compete with men in the workplace, and should essentially be baby-making machines with no say in how many children they have. They may or may not believe Stormy Daniels, but it will not matter. As charlatans like Franklin Graham have said, that kind of thing is in Trump’s past and he is now a changed, God-fearing man. So long as he is helping them try to overturn Roe v. Wade and attacking minorities, they will support him. And face it, appearances matter and Stormy’s overly tight blouse and obvious breast augmentation would cause most evangelicals see her as a tramp and thus not to be believed. I hope this story continues to have impact, but I don’t think the infidelity part of it will. The part that may have an impact is the illegality of the $130,000 if it is seen as a campaign contribution.

[olegramps]

60. If you can be conned by some phony minister, then you are easy picking for a Trump con job.

One sells you a passport to heaven, where ever that is, the other cons you how he is going improve your lousy lot in life by getting you back your job shoveling coal and black lung disease. Forget the fact that he is going to cut your medical benefits for the lung thing-among-jigs.

[leftynyc]

37. I was disappointed she offered ZERO proof

Without proof, it's the word between two liars.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. That wasn't the objective of the interview. It wasn't a trial.

The purpose - or one purpose, anyway - was to bait Trump into responding. He hasn't tweeted yet (that I know of), but his sleazy mouthpiece, Cohen, sent out a typically blustery cease and desist demand, which tells you the whole thing is getting under their skin, bigly. I think it will get to Trump himself and he'll lose control and tweet something incriminating.

Anyhow, what makes you think she's a liar? Her story has been consistent and there's no evidence that she's lied about anything.

[leftynyc]

68. She's already signed something

that stated she didn't have sex with him. Her reasons for doing so are irrelevant. She's already lied.

[oberliner]

69. No evidence that she's lied about anything?

Did you not watch the interview?

Anderson Cooper: If Stormy Daniels denied the affair in 2011, which you say is a lie, denied the affair in early January 2018, denied the affair in late January of 2018, doesn't that hurt her credibility? I mean, she's lying, she's lying, she's lying.

[Kurt V.]

38. Discussed this with my RWNJ co-worker this morning.

him: she's not credible.
me: do you believe her?
him: yeah

what the...

[Grammy23]

40. As long as tRump is in office we can expect to see these kinds of stories

that will emerge to distract or enthrall us. tRump is used to PR, any kind of PR. He wants us talking about him and he will do whatever it takes to get us yapping about him. He has learned (sadly) that behavior that would sink anyone else just seems to go nowhere with him. It is just a part of who he is.

I think at some point (SOON, I hope) Americans will grow weary of scandals that become routine. Yes, we’ve had other presidents who did scandalous things but it was not the all consuming thing about them. With tRump it is understood that he THINKS he is irresistible to women and he likes it that way. Even at 71 he wants to keep the myth going that women find him charming and sexy. Truth be known, the women who did engage in sexual activities with him did so out of fear or in exchange for what they thought he could do for them. Not one of them is rushing to the microphone to say what a great guy he is or how much they love him.

tRump has taken us to a new place for our President. He has made it almost okay to cheat, lie, have casual sex and brag about it. I do hope that Americans will wake up and realize that our President should be more concerned about things other than sex scandals. May we all grow weary of taudry and sleezey details of his latest scandal. Perhaps that is asking for too much. Americans DO love a good sex scandal. Imagine the conversations around the water cooler this morning. 😳🤭😏

[Toorich]

42. Spanking is not ...

an impeachable offense, just Democratic blowjobs. So sez the current crop of rethuglicans.

[SunSeeker]

67. It's not the spanking, it's the coverup. It's his M.O. of paying hush money.

Not only is it a blatant campaign finance violation, but it shows he will do anything to cover up dirt from his past. You know, like agree to drop sanctions against an enemy of the US. This is quite a piece of corroborating evidence in the Russia probe.

[pandr32]

43. Now we know how he treats women he's had sexual contact with

When he says "believe me--it never happened" who will now? He intimidates and threatens women he has assaulted or coerced into sex. I'll bet he used the lure of a spot on that reality TV show to other women besides Stormy. In other cases he was a rich, powerful man, and that sometimes is enough to attract partners for sex. I wonder how many non-disclosure agreements he has gotten women to sign. I'll bet Cohen knows.

[brush]

55. Wonder how much longer Melania will stay? IMO he's got all the grounds now for a hefty settlement...

despite any pre-nup.

[pandr32]

76. Good question

Some suggest she is a "handler" and actually an agent of Russia. Others suggest she was a high-paid call-girl who married for a lavish lifestyle and fat bank account. Not many have suggested she married for love from what I have seen. That seems only a remote possibility.

If the first is true she will stay until she is "recalled."

If the second is true she has one thing going for her: she sleeps separately and no longer has a wifely duty other than public appearances as his wife and now First Lady. I am sure she is compensated to keep this up during the presidency and while Barron is still a dependent child. Her legal agreements must be kept current and pretty tight. tRump was up to his eyeballs in crime by the time Melania came on the scene and so I don't think the current revelations change much.

Besides, tRump has plenty of dirt on Melania if the second scenario is the case. He could let it all loose which would end her acquired social standing due to her arrangement and everyone, including Barron would learn all that is locked away with her legal agreements of those missing "modeling" years. My guess is she is trapped by her own ambitions.

If the last possibility was true, why the hell would she stay? Your question is valid. I think it is unlikely she is a traditional wife in any sense.

[brush]

79. You hit on something I hadn't thought about. He's probably got dirt on her "model" years and being..

the vindictive scum that he is, he's probably already threatened her with it if she tries anything.

[pandr32]

80. I think this is it

If she was a handler she would be with tRump more--not looking for distance.

She is weighing which is more humiliating: remaining married to tRump or having all the dirt about her past hit the fan. Either way she has put herself where she currently is and I have no sympathy for her.

If she wanted to, she could embrace her First Lady role and do something with it--regardless of her situation. The fact that she doesn't tells me she couldn't care less about being a better person or our country.

[zentrum]

44. The only reason

……salciousness matters is that it makes a worse media story and public opinion problem for Trump. But on the contrary, the encounter was revealed to not be an affair, not on-going, but a one-time stand, and she was the "aggressor" by telling him to drop his pants. This is how Patriarchal thinking works: She's a fallen woman who came on to him and he, "poor guy", just responded.

The threat story will devolve into a he said-she said draw. The thug will probably never be found.

Liberal pundits this morning are saying that the Campaign Finance watchdog rarely does anything about illegal contributions and at worst Trump's lawyer will be given a fine of 50K or something. You'd think that the NY State Bar would want to disbar him, but that's no big deal in terms of bringing down Trump.

I think it became a kind of smaller story after the interview than it had been before. Clearly Evangelicals and his base don't care at all about him cheating on his wife.

Her two signed statements that none of it happened will be used against her veracity—endlessly.

So, so far, this seems like so much else—a big hullabaloo that probably becomes smoke.

The MacDougal story has more legs I think, because it was an actual on-going affair..

[Soxfan58]

45. I was disapointed

Because it seems to have knocked MFOL out of the headline. Big breaking news trumps a scum, in weather it will be dark tonight.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. MFOL wasn't going to stay in the headlines, regardless.

It was huge and successful, but the hard work that's required to keep the movement going will continue behind the scenes and will involve GOTV efforts and lobbying politicians - not headline-grabbers but really much more important than marches.

[erronis]

59. And let's all work to make MFOL stay vibrant! nt

[bigbrother05]

49. Her viewpoint that because she had placed herself in his room and flirted

Meant she had to have sex even though she didn't want to or even find him attractive is disturbing.

While she admits it was "consensual", she basically said "I had it coming" and just thought maybe it could get her a gig on the Apprentice. So she's saying Donald is no different than Harvey Wienstein. At least she didn't try to claim "Me too" even though it has all the elements.




eta: The questions about her denials are easily explained by wanting to avoid a suit for violating the NDA until Cohen and the WH came after her, then they were in violation by her reckoning.

[SunSeeker]

58. Agreed. All the elements were there.

She obviously buys into victim blaming, yet she kept insisting she wasn't a victim.

[brush]

51. And he probably wouldn't have become president if the info on his affair/affairs had gotten out.

Also, anyone else notice the NDA was signed on the 28th of Oct., 2016, the same day as Comey's letter?

Just a coincidence, or a coordinated crossing of all the "T"s and dotting of all the "I"s by the repugs just before the election—including Comey, Chaffetz, Cohen, Giuiliani and all the other scuzz balls working for the trump campaign.

The other, or should I say one of the other women trump was having an affair with, her story was bought up by "National Enquirer" for 150k with a promise to publish it. The tabloid, owned by a trump friend, promptly buried the story.

[The Polack MSgt]

57. I'm still a 12 year old at heart

So , I laughed when I was DU REC # 69.

So much winning

[Enoki33]

63. I think the believability factor was vastly important. Especially when

retelling details of the parking lot threat. I suspect for most she overall passed.

[Mountain Mule]

64. K&R! nt

[KPN]

65. I agree 100%.

[SoCalNative]

66. I don't consider

$130k a fairly large sum of money for an NDA, considering what was really at stake. Had it been $1 million or more, maybe. But $130k is pocket change in comparison.

[dchill]

71. "You have crystallized my thoughts exactly."

[radhika]

72. The real scandal is that millions of Americans love their Pigsty President

If the 2016 election was held today, I'm not confident the outcome would change, thanks to the Electoral College.

Voters did not buy a pig-in-the-poke. He made it loud, proud and clear who he was. And $62 million loved what they heard. Last I read, serious organizing is taking place in AL, urging Roy Moore to run for the Senate when Doug's term ends.

But I'd still watch the pee tape if it gets leaked

[EffieBlack]

81. This pig of a man has so lowered the standards of decency in this country that people not only

aren't shocked by an interview with a porn star detailing how the president of the U.S. had sex with her while his wife was recuperating from childbirth, she was threatened to keep quiet about it and later paid off - but they don't even think it's that interesting.

[tclambert]

83. "Melania, I can explain," says Donald . . .

"I cheated with her while you were pregnant. You were all fat and gross. So it was really your fault."

[Fla Dem]

84. The only thing I was disappointed in was the media hype before the show was aired.

We've been told he had a 5 month affair with a porn star. When in fact it was one semi-consensual sexual encounter. The rest of the time they were barely in contact except the one time she spent 5 hours with him, I guess trying to convince him to put her on The Apprentice.

Make no mistake, a one time sexual encounter while your wife is home caring for their newly born son is disgusting. Just saying the media built it up to make it sound like they were having sex for 5 months.

So I can just hear the RWer's saying, oh big deal. One time. Media fake news.

[malaise]

85. I'm following the money

That's the story.

We already know he's a despicable, deplorable, skeevy, short-fingered racist vulgarian who is loyal to nothing or no one.

[RockaFowler]

86. Another thing about the interview that stuck with me

She claims Jenna Jamison (I probably spelled that wrong) told her the "left think she's a slut and the right thinks she's lying".

Now I don't remember anyone on the left saying that she was a slut. I see plenty of that shit from the people on the right, though. Personally I think the pResident is a slut.

Perfect examples from the deplorables

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[MFM008]

87. It's rarely about the act

It's about the LIES, coverup, threats and money.

[orangecrush]

89. Vulnerable to blackmail

bottom line to all of this.

[magicarpet]

90. Yes blackmail and highly susceptible to komromat....

Why Putin has tRdump by the balls and squeezes his testicles to keep him in line.


Reprehensible conduct and behavior means nothing to some...

Reprehensible - why do you say that ?

* Reprehensible conduct and behavior by someone who currently resides in our White House.

* Reprehensible enough that he wants to keep it a secret.

* Reprehensible enough that he is willing to have his goons threaten any one who would reveal this conduct and behavior.

* Reprehensible enough that he is willing to pay out large sums of money to buy someone's silence.

* Reprehensible enough that he lies to the public that the sexual affair ever happened because if the truth and reality came out it could prove very awkward and damaging.

* Reprehensible enough that a super secret NDA was engineered to cover any foot prints that would reveal this conduct or behavior.

* Reprehensible enough that the perpetrator (tRdump) has attempted to block the CBC - 60 Minute segment from broadcasting the Stormy details.

* Reprehensible enough that agents of tRdump are suing Stormy for $20 million for revealing details of an affair tRdump says never happened.

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If nothing else the above proves the man currently occupying the White House is highly susceptible to being blackmailed.

That is a dangerous place for the national security of this country.


This reprehensible conduct and behavior is likely the same type of highly embarrassing kompromat Russia/Putin holds over and is using against tRdump while forcing him to act in Russia's best interests rather than the best interests of the United States of America.

This tRdump/Stormy tryst episode, the Playboy Bunny tryst episode, and the other multiple trysts of matrimonial infidelities, sexual harassment, and other inappropriate sexual behaviors are not nothing burgers. They could well be the key the why, the how, the where of the kompromat tRdump gave to Putin on a silver platter and how Putin uses this insane/madman sexual behavior to exploit tRump and exploit AMERICA because of this kompromat.

TRdump is a man of many human weaknesses he is ripe and susceptible to being controlled as a puppet. This is likely why Putin has our pResident by the balls and has total control over him. If tRdump steps out of line Putin squeezes his testicles. Then there is the question of financial kompromat - Putin likely can put the squeeze on tRdump's wallet and send his financial well being into turmoil so he crashes and burns.

Anyone who calls this a nothing burgers has failed critical thinking - forensic crime scene - course study 101.

This could be the main key and component to bringing tRdump down and out of the people's White House and hopefully locked up in jail. The more fronts we approach and attack from the sooner we get rid of this criminal thug masquarading as America's President.

[disndat]

91. She said it was one time and Consensual

That should have been the end of the story. Maybe she should have taken the $130,000 and faded away. I don't see what else she has to gain. Her lawyer is looking for more money? the only thing left is the question of the illegality of using campaign money to hush her up.

[Skittles]

99. of course it's about money

just watch

[Honeycombe8]

92. People already knew he molested women, which I believe is worse than Stormy. It was a nothingburger.

The cash that was handled improperly or illegally...that may end up being something. But voters don't care much about such things.

The big letdown is that there was only one sexual incident, not an ongoing affair, so that she may have learned something about the Trump organization. But no, it was just a one-night stand. We already knew he has flings, was no monogamous, and molested women.

There was the spanking thing, which is an embarrassment for Spanky. That affects his psyche, and his reputation (possibly even among Trumpers....if they choose to believe Stormy, which many won't).

So it was a nothingburger. Her attorney did the tease with a DVD, so viewers were expecting to hear something about that. Turns out that may have been a bluff, or maybe saves of any texts she got or recordings of phone conversations, maybe. Who knows?

Meh.

[lunatica]

93. Well Trump found out he is a boring lay

and that she only had sex with him as strictly a business deal. That he didn’t turn her on. Now he knows everyone knows he as vanilla as they come.

And everyone also knows his highest compliment to the women he sleeps with is that they remind him of Ivanka.

She must be so proud.

And Melania knows that the entire world knows he’s boring in bed. If she wants to see his ego deflated she’s probably enjoying herself a bit for a change.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

96. Two things I noticed about Story Daniels from the CBS interview:

1. She toned down the glamor and more closely resembled the kind of person you'd barely notice in a grocery store.

2. She mentioned being a mother with a young child. This fact alone humanized her.

I think the interview served her well.

[Cha]

97. Stormy: the president had sex with me while his wife was post-partum and tried to coerce me..

Link to tweet

Right.. it's not nothing..

Well stated, MM.. Mahalo!

[MineralMan]

100. Exactly. It's far from boring.

[Skittles]

98. why didn't she speak out BEFORE the election

she was fine with being threatened and for this goon to run for PRESIDENT as long as she got her payoff

ugh