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For 70 years, he had skirted and broke the laws. But he was never held accountable for anything.
When he decided to run for the presidency, negative stories started to break about his financial and personal affairs. A few weeks before the election, a story broke with him on tape telling his friend on a bus how women would let you grab them by the snatch if you were a star. It caused a huge uproar and many Republicans thought it might end his quixotic adventure.
Then, shortly thereafter, another bombshell story was about to break. An adult film star was ready to go public about her affair with the ambitious politician. So his lawyer, his "fixer", arranged to make an agreement with her for her silence. He agreed to pay her $130,000 dollars and get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Fortunately, they were able to keep the story quiet until after the election was over. Eventually, it became public. The aspiring politician denied it all.
What would have happened if the story had become public? Would the GOP have requested him to drop out of the race? And, if he stayed in, would he have eventually lost to Hillary Clinton? Would that have been the straw that broke the camel's back?
We will never know. But it does casts doubt upon the legitimacy of the 2016 election. If the whole truth had been known, we might be writing a totally different history?
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)It is unrelated to the russia interference in our election. We all knew he was a rapist before he strolled down the escalator.
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bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)cilla4progress
(24,585 posts)The kicker for me was after the grab 'em by the pussy story came out tfg went on tv very contritely saying it was a rare out of character misstep for him.
If the Stormy Daniels story had broken the next day as it was on track to do (instead of buying her off for the measly $130K, I mean WTF??) it would have been game over.
This I know.
MiHale
(9,593 posts)One or two minutes sometimes only seconds can change a decision leading to a completely different timeline.
CrispyQ
(36,221 posts)I thought he'd be toast after he mocked the disabled journalist & when he wasn't, I knew when the Access Hollywood tape came out that that wouldn't take him down either. Also, there are men who feel they should have the right to grab women when & where they want too, & most of those types are republican.
Honestly, I'm not sure knowing about the payoff would have made a difference. OTOH, the margins were so slim in those few states, who knows? I'll always believe that Comey's disclosure was the biggest thumb on the scale against Clinton. When he put out that commentary how Trump eats your soul I wished he fucking choke on his dinner. Fuck you James Comey.
lark
(22,993 posts)HRC would 100% have won.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,461 posts)Everyone knew what a disgusting pig he was already. They voted for him anyway.
Affairs arent a big deal anymore. They never really should have been.