You want to know what’s ironic?
Stormy [Daniels] told In Touch, “[The sex] was textbook generic,” while discussing the fling they had less than four months after Donald’s wife, Melania, gave birth to their son, Barron. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me.’”
She was all worried that Trump would treat her like a prostitute but then she wound up taking $130,000 from him to not talk about the sex anymore.
Again, I couldn’t care less about the tryst but it matters that Trump is in the habit of paying hush money.
He does seem to be an after-the-fact kinda guy; he prefers not to pay anyone or anything as he goes, whether it’s business, sex or influence. He chooses bankruptcies, chooses bribes, chooses money laundering, chooses to do business with the dark side.
Trump is a sleazeball. Always has been, always will be. I honestly don’t give a fig about his past affairs, they just prove that he’s a jerk who disrespects women.
Save the tabloid junk…those of us who find him to be a complete waste of space already hate him. And his followers snicker and grin because oh, ain’t he the horndog? It makes no difference in the big picture.
What news about Trump would I like to see? His real tax returns, some dollar figures about the cost of his trips to and from golf courses, actual info about his connections to Putin, and maybe more about the emoluments clause that nobody talks about. How much money is he hauling in illegally?
Well, we know he made 33 trips to his US properties (not counting the Trump International Hotel in DC) and the GAO has estimated that each trip costs $3.6 million so that means he has spent nearly $119 million just on the trips. This is not counting what he charges the USG for his golf resort/Mar-a-Lago/Trump Tower per day (and you know it has to be a vast overcharge) because of all the Secret Service people, staff, hangers-on, etc. Probably at least $50 million since he spent 121 days at his own properties. We also don’t know what China and Japan paid for their leaders’ Mar-a-Lago state visits. Suffice it say, by the end of his first term, Trump may have racked up at least a half-billion in personal charges (not all of which would be going into his personal bank account of course but a lot would. My info comes from NBC’s running database: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/how-much-time-trump-spending-trump-properties-n753366
Except it’s not the affair, it’s the payoff.
It’s also how the media had the story, and chose not to print it. Imagine for one second if Obama had done the same…had an affair with a porn star, and then during the campaign had paid her 130000 dollars.
Would Fox and Slate (and there had to be more) have remained silent? Slate says it’s because they did not have her permission. But they have no such permission now.
That’s the story. And it needs to be talked about because of the double standard.
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<quote>while we were having sex</quote>
I think I’m going to fwow up.