National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt. He Wanted to Buy It All.

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him.

But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further.

He and his lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen, devised a plan to buy up all the dirt on Mr. Trump that the National Enquirer and its parent company had collected on him, dating back to the 1980s, according to several of Mr. Trump’s associates.

The existence of the plan, which was never finalized, has not been reported before. But it was strongly hinted at in a recording that Mr. Cohen’s lawyer released last month of a conversation about payoffs that Mr. Cohen had with Mr. Trump.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/nyregion/trump-cohen-national-enquirer-american-media-recording.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Julian Englis]

1. The entertainment value alonge could be immense if it material becomes pubblic...

Details of affairs, marital problems, and "unscrupulous golfing...." Let's hope that this stuff still exists.

[3Hotdogs]

3. --- entereainment value. Let's see. Sheep, apple pie (as in Amer, cows liver, loofa's (Bill Riley)

pee-pee in bed. Poo in bed. Farting contests. Hampsters.



More fun would be if they had this kind of shit on Pence. Mother would be disappointed.

[sdfernando]

23. UGH!

I'm really not interested in the sordid details of the orange pustules 2-minute romps.

[salin]

2. So the national enquirer has been the national extortioner?

I doubt Trump is the only one they have tried to sell their dirt back to.

[Snellius]

4. Like the J. Edgar Hoover of smut. No wonder Trump is so paranoid.

Ghosts of bad behavior catch up in the end. Film at 11.

[lagomorph777]

18. All of Trump's "friends" are turning out to be enemas.

Icewater and broken glass enemas.

[salin]

21. Before he was pres. reporting was he had no friends - just didn't relate to people as friends.

Then after he was elected we have been "introduced" to various "friends." And aside from Tom Barrack - all signs point to that first reporting (pre 2017) as correct.

And - thanks for the chuckle

[Submariner]

5. Does someone own a website like 'Trumpileaks"?

that can post everything on the web like Wikileaks.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. trumpleaks.com redirects to donaldjtrump.com. trumpileaks.com is for sale.

http://trumpileaks.com

Notes from Visitors:

"You are a Lard eating turd. All The Best - Gabe"

"You are a fool[.]" -- Russell E

"[censored] YOU, YOU FAT PIECE OF SHIT!!!" -- DBG

"Trump just farted in the whitehouse, leaked info hes[sic] trying to blow it up[.]" -- Jimmy N

"YOUR[sic] REPULSIVE in every aspect of the word." -- David R

[Doodley]

6. Trump never bought it. He doesn't have the kind of money he claims.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. What kind of billionaire can't come up with $130,000 in an hour?

His lawyer needed a loan to pay off Stormy. $130k is chump change to a billionaire. It's 1/5 the daily cash flow. Someone calculated somewhere --- Carl Icahn's pile of dough is like he was paid $598,000 every day of his life. Every day!!

Trump uses his lawyer who needs a HELO to make bank on $130k. Something's not computing here.

[ansible]

11. Trump seems to base his worth on his properties

But seems to be pretty broke when it comes to actual cash on hand

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Yes, ok, but property is collateral that banks value for instant loans IF

they are willing to lend to you because you are a good credit risk

Liquidity in other words. Trump doesn't have it

[Calista241]

19. I thought he had all the loans from Deutsch Bank. And the Russian Banks.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Question the judgement of a man who pays $130,000 for an hour or two of sex. . . nt

[brush]

20. According to what Stormy Daniels just said recently, it was more like a minute or two.

[Snellius]

7. TPM - National Enquirer takes a hit in circulation

The Enquirer’s privately held parent company, American Media Inc., lost $72 million for the year ending in March, the records obtained by the AP show. And despite AMI chairman David Pecker’s claims that the Enquirer’s heavy focus on Trump sells magazines, the documents show that the Enquirer’s average weekly circulation fell by 18 percent to 265,000 in its 2018 fiscal year from the same period the year before — the greatest percentage loss of any AMI-owned publication. The slide follows the Enquirer’s 15 percent circulation loss for the previous 12 months, a span that included the presidential election.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/national-enquirer-takes-a-hit-in-circulation

[Squinch]

10. Everything trump touches.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Another Trump Tower meeting?

[dembotoz]

15. gotta get it all...what is he pokemon?????????

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. I'm sure the Russians have never been able to find their way into those servers. NT

[forgotmylogin]

17. That explains why all his info was in a safe!

It was extremely valuable!

[riversedge]

22. Seems no one knows if evidence/documents exist or have been destroyed....

.............It is not known how much of the material on Mr. Trump is still in American Media’s possession or whether American Media destroyed any of it after the campaign. Prosecutors have not said whether they have obtained any of the material beyond that which pertains to Ms. McDougal and Ms. Clifford and the discussions about their arrangements.


For the better part of two decades, Mr. Pecker had ordered his staff at American Media to protect Mr. Trump from troublesome stories, in some cases by buying up stories about him and filing it away.

In 2016, he kept his staff from going back through the old Trump tip and story files that dated to before Mr. Pecker became company chairman in 1999, several former staff members said in interviews with The New York Times.

That meant that American Media, the nation’s largest gossip publisher, did not play a role during the election year in vetting a presidential candidacy — Mr. Trump’s — made for the tabloids......................................

[LogicFirst]

24. Double standard

Trump charges google with promoting the bad stuff. Trump helps Enquirer to bury the bad stuff. One is wrong; the other is right. SMH

[FSogol]

26. Good point. Welcome to DU. n/t

[niyad]

25. since we are reasonably certain that el bloato has no money except his russian allowance, HOW,

exactly, was he going to pay for this? or was vlad going to pay to have even more to hold over his head?