TheCut: Stormy Daniels's Boring Interview Was Actually Brilliant
[Full headline:]
Stormy Danielss Boring Interview Was Actually Brilliant
Once again, she proves shes a worthy adversary for Trump.
By Rhonda Garelick March 26, 2018
Last nights 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels set off so few fireworks, with so little new information, that it would be tempting to dismiss its importance. As Slate put it, If you were hoping for a TV event that would do serious damage to the Trump presidency
[it] was a let down. Lets not be hasty here, though. Buried within the interviews vanilla blandness lay some lessons worth pondering if we want to save our republic. But the important parts were easy to miss.
[...]
But in her conversation with Anderson Cooper, Stormy mainly rehashed details shed offered before: How she met Trump; how he compared her to Ivanka (still not that shocking, folks); and how hed strung her along by dangling (the very word shes used before evoking atrophied flesh) the hope of an appearance on The Apprentice.
She did elaborate, though, on the most profoundly disturbing element in all this: the alleged personal threat made to her (to keep silent and leave Trump alone) in 2011. The story she told of being menaced by a thug in a parking lot while with her infant daughter was chilling but also, sadly given what we already know about the world of Trump not that shocking, and entirely credible.
[...]
Everything about this interview screamed legitimacy. 60 Minutes is the 50-year-old doyenne of broadcast journalism, a network show watched by grandparents and Trump supporters (and apparently even Trump himself). This was Stormys chance to take her case to the widest American public, to clear her name and tell her truth, even at the risk of being penalized for breaching her non-disclosure agreement (and possibly even at risk to her personal safety).
[...]
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/stormy-danielss-60-minutes-interview-was-actually-brilliant.html