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You are here: Home / Open Threads / WSJ: Trump Paid Porn Actress to Keep Quiet About Affair a Month Before Election

WSJ: Trump Paid Porn Actress to Keep Quiet About Affair a Month Before Election

by Betty Cracker|  January 12, 20185:07 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

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Ewww, what a gross story:

A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Michael Cohen, who spent nearly a decade as a top attorney at the Trump Organization, arranged payment to the woman, Stephanie Clifford, in October 2016 after her lawyer negotiated the nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Cohen, these people said.

Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, has privately alleged the encounter with Mr. Trump took place after they met at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, these people said. Mr. Trump married Melania Trump in 2005.

The White House issued a denial in response to the tawdry tale, as did Cohen in a statement. But interestingly, Cohen didn’t deny the payment, just the porn star sexy time, which he labeled an “outlandish allegation.”

However, the WSJ article includes a detail that strongly suggests that Trump DID pay Clifford off:

After the agreement, Ms. Clifford’s camp complained the payment wasn’t being made quickly enough and threatened to cancel the deal, some of the people familiar with the matter said.

Yep, that sounds like Trump alright.

You may recall rumors that the National Enquirer paid a Playboy centerfold model $150K for a similar story, which the Trump pal who publishes the Enquirer then declined to run. That woman probably got paid a lot quicker.

This isn’t the worst thing we’ve learned about Trump, not even in the last 24 hours. The hypocritical evangelical assholes who support Trump won’t give a shit. But, as someone pointed out on Twitter, it explains why Melania hates him so much.

What a grotesque shit-stain Trump is. I’m not sure, as a country, that we’ll ever recover from the shame of having such a garish creep in the White House. Fuck everyone who voted for him.

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  1. 1.

    dedc79

    January 12, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    This story has a lot of people pointing to a particular passage in Wolff’s book with renewed interest.

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    You never see them together. Coincidence? I think not!

    What? pic.twitter.com/vnRhNepED7

    — Laura Apollo (@lauraapollo) January 12, 2018

  3. 3.

    Gemina13

    January 12, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    Just reading the headline revolted me. If not for the fact that she feels humiliated by his treatment of her, I would think Melanie would be overjoyed to have Trump fuck anyone but her.

  4. 4.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    January 12, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    “Fuck pandas. The panda is the most poorly designed animal I’ve ever seen. God does not like that animal. Everything is stacked against it. They don’t like each other so they sometimes end up killing one another during mating.”

  5. 5.

    lollipopguild

    January 12, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    I am sure that there are plenty more stories like this out there that will come out sooner or later, but his true fans do not care in fact they probably like these stories.

  6. 6.

    retr2327

    January 12, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    Of course, the very next post is titled “Penetration at all levels” . . . .

    On a different note, here’s something to watch for in the wake of S***hole-gate and the cancellation of Trump’s visit to England: Let’s see if Pres. Obama receives an official invitation to the wedding of Prince Harry (IIRC) sometime in the next week now that Trump has thoroughly disgraced himself in British eyes. I suspect the Royal fear of the ensuing diplomatic affront has lessened considerably in the past 24 hours.

  7. 7.

    lollipopguild

    January 12, 2018 at 5:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: So, you are saying that Megyn was working as a porn actress while also working at Fake Noise?

  8. 8.

    MikeifromArlington

    January 12, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Is anyone surprised, really?

    I pray every day that if one thing from the dossier is true, it’s the pee pee tape and it gets leaked. I may even go into s state of perpetual schadenfreude.

  9. 9.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 12, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    I don’t give a damn, except that it’s another pebble on the heap of ‘President Shithole is a dishonest deadbeat.’

  10. 10.

    MCA1

    January 12, 2018 at 5:20 pm

    Least surprising news of the week. He’s a revolting degenerate. Keep owning it, Republicans.

  11. 11.

    OnkelFritze

    January 12, 2018 at 5:20 pm

    Is it just me or does 130K seem to be awfully low?

  12. 12.

    jimmiraybob

    January 12, 2018 at 5:21 pm

    Denials were made! Hurumph, hurumph.

  13. 13.

    sharl

    January 12, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    Sad to see a diligent and successful sex worker dragged into something sordid like this. (I’m not entirely kidding here btw.)

  14. 14.

    germy

    January 12, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    Cohen also passed along an image of this letter to me, signed from "Stormy Daniels" and dated Jan 10, 2018, denying rumors of hush money from Trump and calling them "completely false." https://t.co/J0taBJZLP5 pic.twitter.com/MX4qgVhyN2— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) January 12, 2018

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    so they sometimes end up killing one another during mating

    Really, who hasn’t had this happen on occasion?//

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    @dedc79: Here you go, so people don’t have to click through:

    This sentence from the Wolff book didn’t get the attention it deserved pic.twitter.com/oGIdaPISVT

    — Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) January 12, 2018

  17. 17.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 12, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Well, now we know why you’re single at the moment.

  18. 18.

    Barbara

    January 12, 2018 at 5:25 pm

    I am having trouble keeping up. I believe that one of the salutary effects of Wolff’s book will be to unleash reporting on the tawdry and vulgar aspects of Trump’s life that “serious” journalists or their publishers have been unwilling to write or publish, or that they refer to in euphemisms so understated that many people don’t really understand what they mean. I even wonder whether the WaPo would have published the “shithole” comments unvarnished were it not for the no holds barred can’t go much lower than that stuff Wolff churned out.

  19. 19.

    Adria McDowell

    January 12, 2018 at 5:25 pm

    Waywaywait! Hear me out!

    How do we know Trump didn’t pay this chick money to pretend to not have had an affair with him? You know, to make it seem like all the hot women want him and blah blah blah? Like, eleventy dimension sex chess? “Hey, here is some money to pretend like we did but didn’t do something and talk about how nice I was….”

    Hahahaha just kidding- this story is gross and somehow I don’t really care about it.

  20. 20.

    germy

    January 12, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    DONALD TRUMP’S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    @lollipopguild: Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    @MikeifromArlington: There is no pee tape. I keep telling you all this.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:28 pm

    @germy:

    Her legal name isn’t Stormy Daniels https://t.co/9UgMI9nvE2

    — Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 12, 2018

  24. 24.

    Barbara

    January 12, 2018 at 5:28 pm

    @germy: Sounds like they definitely pray to the same deity.

  25. 25.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 12, 2018 at 5:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Stormy has a far better nose job.

  26. 26.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:29 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: Sometimes these things happen…//

  27. 27.

    hellslittlestangel

    January 12, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    So he had sex with her, then he paid her off. Right, an “affair.”

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    @germy: To paraphrase: “what does G-d need with a paycheck?”

  29. 29.

    Adria McDowell

    January 12, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    @germy: Fuck that bitch.

  30. 30.

    germy

    January 12, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: The letter sounds like it was written by the same person who wrote the doctor’s note.

  31. 31.

    germy

    January 12, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    @Barbara:

    Sounds like they definitely pray to the same deity.

    The big Dollar Sign in the sky.

  32. 32.

    Haydnseek

    January 12, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Perhaps not. But there’s something about seeing “pee tape” and “leaking” in the same sentence……………

  33. 33.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 12, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Does that invalidate the letter? Because while I believe this happened, this same response is what it think would happen if Trump didn’t pay her off, too.

  34. 34.

    cain

    January 12, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    She’s blonde.. no surprise there.

  35. 35.

    sharl

    January 12, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, some of us are just not yet ready for such a harsh truth, so for the moment I will ignore your assertion on this matter, well intended though it is.

    Besides, it’s Ashley Feinberg’s birthday, so for her – one of my few remaining media heroes in this Hell World – I belieeeeve.

    FEINBERG’S IDEAL REPORTING GOAL, she tells me, is to uncover the seemingly apocryphal “pee tape” described in the Steele dossier on Donald Trump. If that doesn’t show up, Feinberg says that she would love, above all else, to “catch Donald Trump Jr. stealing valor,” the act in which a civilian poses fraudulently as a member or veteran of the armed forces. “Don Jr. humiliating himself in general is a good story,” she deadpans. Feinberg has also been scraping the internet, in vain, for the digital slime trail of Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, who, she says, don’t have any sort of online presence, “which seems impossible given their age,” she tells me. “It’s driven me nuts.”

  36. 36.

    Timurid

    January 12, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    @germy:

    If God really is handing out consequences, this story ends with Ms. White sharing a cell with Elizabeth Bathory or Eva Braun…

  37. 37.

    hueyplong

    January 12, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    “Fuck everyone who voted for him” seems like a nice thread category, except that every post should probably be included.

    Because, seriously, fuck everyone who voted for him.

  38. 38.

    ruemara

    January 12, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    Ugh. Reminds me of a short story I once read involving zombie porn.

    Sorry.

  39. 39.

    Millard Filmore

    January 12, 2018 at 5:40 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    There is no pee tape. I keep telling you all this.

    Well, there is the official Pee Tape Made In A Moscow Hotel as described by Steele which most likely does not exist, but Trump has been a busy boy. There are other cities in the world with activities just as attractive as what is available in Russia and more organizations than Putin’s secret army that can video his enjoyment of them.

  40. 40.

    Baud

    January 12, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    If Mueller needs a porn specialist to handle his part of the investigation, I’m available.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    January 12, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    @cain:

    She’s blonde.. no surprise there.

    I don’t think that’s her natural hair color. But I take your point.

    ETA: That’s probably not Trump’s natural hair color, either.

    @OnkelFritze:

    Is it just me or does 130K seem to be awfully low?

    Yeah. I think she should have been paid more to have to be with Trump. Even it was several years ago.

  42. 42.

    Mike in NC

    January 12, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    In his long tawdry career, Trump must have hit on scores of women and paid off a bunch to stay mum about having sex with him. He’d make Harvey Weinstein look like a monk.

  43. 43.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 12, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    @Brachiator: I am not sure that the hair he sports on his head is natural either. Looks like fake doll hair to me.

  44. 44.

    Lapassionara

    January 12, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    @hueyplong: And also, everyone who voted for Jill Stein.

  45. 45.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 12, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): ? why did I read that

  46. 46.

    geg6

    January 12, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    I feel ya, Betty. I’m just deathly sick of him (and his fan club) and can’t take another minute of it this week.

    Accordingly, I won’t pay any more attention to him tonight. A huge ice storm is bearing down on us and my plan is to hunker down with a glass of wine or two and watch Battle of the Sexes. I’ve loved Billie Jean King ever since I watched her beat that pig, Bobby Riggs. She’s amazing.

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    January 12, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I am not sure that the hair he sports on his head is natural either. Looks like fake doll hair to me.

    Yeah. Good observation. Fake doll hair or poor quality yak hair.

  48. 48.

    Captain C

    January 12, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Even if there was, it wouldn’t matter. It would be laughable. If there is in fact a tape (or tapes), it’ll be something much worse.

  49. 49.

    Luthe

    January 12, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @Brachiator: What did those yaks ever do to you?

  50. 50.

    BC in Illinois

    January 12, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    @Barbara:
    @germy:

    Sounds like they definitely pray to the same deity.

    Soli Mamonae Gloria.

    To Mammon alone be the glory.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 12, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, has privately alleged the encounter with Mr. Trump took place after they met at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, these people said. Mr. Trump married Melania Trump in 2005.

    DJT and Melania married in January 2005.

    The “Access Hollywood” tape was recorded in September 2005.

    Melania was probably three months pregnant by then, assuming Barron was full term. He was born in March March 2006.

    The (ALLEGED!!) affair, or sexual encounter, with the adult film actress was July 2006.

    I cannot fathom why Melania is still married to him, but I remember ticking off people who had similar questions about Bill and Hillary, so I guess it’s really none of my business.

  52. 52.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: As a legal document, yes it matters.

  53. 53.

    Captain C

    January 12, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I cannot fathom why Melania is still married to him

    Perhaps they have a prenup in which the payout increases over time?

  54. 54.

    hellslittlestangel

    January 12, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I cannot fathom why Melania is still married to him …

    Really. Why would a woman who previously worked as an escort want to stay married to man who pays women for sex?

    Could it be … job security?

  55. 55.

    Timurid

    January 12, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @Captain C:

    Yep. If the piss tape exists and is released tomorrow, it will barely move the needle.
    It’s basically Trump watching an extra raunchy strip show. The only crime committed was petty vandalism (presumably the hotel didn’t want guests peeing on the furniture). Even if the women were hookers, Trump was not soliciting prostitution because he did not engage in a sex act. Trump has already been caught on tape admitting to conduct orders of magnitude worse. Even today’s story is worse than the piss tape because it involves Trump actually committing adultery, not just ogling hot babes. But nobody who matters will care about any of that. Because white people want what white people want.

  56. 56.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    Yep, that sounds like Trump alright.

    What a fucking grifter. Trump would chisel his own father if he had the stamina to dig up his grave.

    I listened to the radio all day long while working. NPR has struggled with how to refer to “shithole” all day long. They sidle up to the line, then sneak back, then step forward again. Listening to their standards editor explain their thinking was tortuous.

    On the other hand, I’ve gotten angrier and angrier at my family members who voted for Trump. I just posted this to Facebook:

    Someone who says something racist with the same kind of nonchalance used when talking about the weather is not outspoken. Someone who says something racist with the same kind of nonchalance used when talking about the weather is a racist. Period. To the people I know who voted for that man (and I call him that mockingly), I know you were raised better than that. I know I was.

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: She got: 1) citizenship, 2) wealth, 3) citizenship for her parents. All she had to do in exchange is look good and remain looking good; be seen, but not heard in public looking supportive; provide him with a (preferably male) child to demonstrate that he was still virile in his 60s; and not complain about whatever it is he actually does with his time – publicly or privately.

    This is exactly the type of agreement in exchange for citizenship that US immigration law is intended to prevent.

  58. 58.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    @germy:

    What is it with these chicks? She looks a lot like Stormy and Megyn.

  59. 59.

    trollhattan

    January 12, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:
    My attic is full of the stuff–keeps the place cooler in summer.

  60. 60.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 12, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: How is this not immigration fraud? Did INS/USCIS interview them separately?

    ETA: A couple of my friends who married foreign nationals had to go through those interviews for their I-130s (intent to immigrate, family sponsorship) to prove that they were a real couple.

  61. 61.

    bystander

    January 12, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    So this is after marrying Melania. Again, why do we think she doesn’t have a fidelity clause in the prenup?

    And for those who were having trouble rhyming “Mueller” tell me how you re-write the lyrics to Stormy Weather with a rhyme for Daniels.

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    January 12, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    But no handholding, that’s taking things too far!

  63. 63.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 12, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: “They don’t send us their best people…”.

  64. 64.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 12, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @Captain C:
    @hellslittlestangel:
    @Adam L Silverman:

    Yup. I know that. I know all that, and I disagree with none of your comments or conjectures. I still can’t wrap my head around a woman — any woman, really, but especially a young, attractive woman — who would willingly debase herself like that.

    I know. I know.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    January 12, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @debbie: I have been feeling renewed anger today at my family members, also. I decided it was best for me not to be in contact with them for a few days lest I say something that would damage our relationships forever. It’s hard when there is nowhere for my anger to go.

  66. 66.

    FlipYrWhig

    January 12, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    My theory continues to be that Trump is paying these women to prevent them from telling stories of how he DID NOT have sex with them. He attempted and failed, or he paid them to get naked and he’d watch, or something of that nature. I don’t think Donald Trump has had very much sex, with a partner, under any conditions.

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

    January 12, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    @debbie:

    Someone who says something racist with the same kind of nonchalance used when talking about the weather is not outspoken. Someone who says something racist with the same kind of nonchalance used when talking about the weather is a racist. Period. To the people I know who voted for that man (and I call him that mockingly), I know you were raised better than that. I know I was.

    CNN spoke with a few Trump supporters. Only one was totally disappointed with Trump and appeared to reject him. The others either denied that Trump made racist comments, insisted that he had probably been taken out of context, or just did not care.

  68. 68.

    Ruckus

    January 12, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    @Adria McDowell:
    I know it’s low to go there but she looks far more fake than drumpf does.

  69. 69.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It’s hard when there is nowhere for my anger to go.

    Exactly! I would like to have it out with them, but I’d bet they don’t want to get into it with me. I’m left with yelling in their direction on FB.

    Other than playing Words With Friends with them and knowing when one of them is hospitalized (or something similar), I haven’t spoken to them in more than a year. By now, it’s irreparable, I’m afraid.

  70. 70.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:

    He’s too cheap to do that. This is why we need to see his tax returns. Bet the payments are all hidden under amortization expenses or something similar.

  71. 71.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 12, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:

    or he paid them to get naked and he’d watch

    “I like to watch…”.

  72. 72.

    scav

    January 12, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    @bystander:

    . . . how you re-write the lyrics to Stormy Weather with a rhyme for Daniels.

    Well, the obvious Shakespearean lead appears more apt for his Evangelical followers, rallying to defend his behavior.

    And even for that do I love you the more.
    I am your spaniel. And, Demetrius,
    The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.
    Use me but as your spaniel—spurn me, strike me,
    Neglect me, lose me. Only give me leave,
    Unworthy as I am, to follow you.

    or the snappier

    Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
    The more it grows and fawneth on her still.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    January 12, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    @debbie: You know, if they could even just say “I made a terrible mistake”, I could move on.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 12, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    so just glancing at twitter and seeing Chris Matthews trending…

    This has already been covered?

  75. 75.

    mad citizen

    January 12, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    @Baud: HI-larious!!!

  76. 76.

    NCSteve

    January 12, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    If we could set aside the salacious and the confirmation that Trump is a disgusting pig, I would refer everyone back to Steele Dossier, pp. 34-35 (at the end). This episode lends those allegations credibility to the extent that it shows Trump did, in fact, consider Cohen his goto hush money specialist and hot mess cleanup guy.

    Indeed, at this point, we should all just re-read the damn thing to to bottom every week anyway, because something new always jumps out at you. (Such as, for example, it suddenly hitting me that “Source E” is likely Felix Sater, which, given the likelihood Mueller has an arm on him, is bad news for Trump.

  77. 77.

    Bobby Thomson

    January 12, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    I’m very glad she dropped out against Vitter in 2010. She obviously lacks judgement.

  78. 78.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Right. I think they’re afraid to admit it, knowing what my response would be.

  79. 79.

    cain

    January 12, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    @germy: To paraphrase: “what does G-d need with a paycheck?”

    Or a space ship – said a certain captain of a ship.

  80. 80.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 12, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    @cain: Nope. It was Starship. “What does God need with a Starship?”

  81. 81.

    Bill Arnold

    January 12, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    There is no pee tape. I keep telling you all this.

    If the Stormy Daniels revelation (and the Wolff book bit you cited) didn’t cause you to readjust your certainty on this, I’m now quite curious about what you know and how you know it. And about what exactly you mean by “There is no pee tape”. :-)

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    January 12, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    @debbie: My response would be “thank you!”

    I don’t think mine are even willing to admit it to themselves, and that makes me even more angry.

  83. 83.

    JohnO

    January 12, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    @debbie:

    I have voluntarily withdrawn from just about everything and everybody on the racist side of the fence among my family and friends. 2017 was a very painful year. I had never held a vote against anyone personally in my life, but The Boy King was a bridge too far for me.

  84. 84.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 12, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @Baud: Move over kid, I live in Porn Valley.

  85. 85.

    debbie

    January 12, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    @JohnO:

    You’re both far more well-adjusted than I. I want to draw blood.

  86. 86.

    Wild Cat

    January 12, 2018 at 6:55 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: Yup. Past or present, he’s always been Roy Cohn’s twink. Marla Maples discovered that the hard way…or the soft.

  87. 87.

    bemused

    January 12, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    No amount of money is worth spending even a minute within the vicinity of Trump.

  88. 88.

    Librarian

    January 12, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: And he did it fully dressed, with the red tie and everything.

  89. 89.

    Jeffro

    January 12, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    @dedc79: @Adam L Silverman: @debbie:

    Now we know why the guy’s bankrupt, at least…$130k per “encounter” really adds up!

  90. 90.

    Shana

    January 12, 2018 at 7:31 pm

    @geg6: Hubby and I watched Battle of the Sexes last weekend. Really enjoyed it.

  91. 91.

    Mnemosyne

    January 12, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    @germy:

    Another mafia bust-out, Christianist style. I bet there’s a scandal hanging over her head so she wants to cash in while she still can.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    January 12, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    @ruemara:

    I’ll trade you for the one with the woman who discovers she’s a necrophiliac while, um, mid-act. I can never un-read that one.

  93. 93.

    PJ

    January 12, 2018 at 7:47 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Some jobs are dirtier than others. At least she didn’t stoop so low as to work in the Trump White House.

  94. 94.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: @FlipYrWhig: This, and the resulting abortions, all sealed away with NDAs, is what Rick Wilson has intimated several times he tried to get the news media to bite on during the primaries in 2015-2016 and that they all refused to do so.

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 7:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I do not know. I taught a single inservice course of an ICE Field Office back in 2012 for a former student of mine (he was one of Deputy Supervisory Special Agents in Charge). That’s the closest I’ve ever gotten, except when flying into and out of the country, to immigration enforcement.

  96. 96.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    @trollhattan: Not in the prenup.

  97. 97.

    zeecube

    January 12, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    Somewhat on topic, Ms. Daniels “flirted” with running for Senate against David Vitter. http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2018/01/trump_porn_star_payoff.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news

  98. 98.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Though some, I guess, are fine people.

  99. 99.

    p.a.

    January 12, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    @PJ: This rumor doesn’t pass the stink test: who would admit they had sex with trump for any amount of $?

  100. 100.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    @p.a.: She didn’t have sex with him for money. What is being alleged is that the President’s people paid her off to keep word about them having sex getting out in the news and being confirmed during the campaign.

  101. 101.

    Waratah

    January 12, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    I cannot seem to bring up John’s comments on his last post is anyone else having problems?

  102. 102.

    Cacti

    January 12, 2018 at 8:36 pm

    Trump being a sleaze is already well known. What I’m really curious about is this:

    Did Dotard report this bribe as a business expense or launder it through his charity? If so, you have potential NY State and Federal tax fraud.

    Hey, it brought down Al Capone.

    Along those lines, did “Stormy Daniels” pay tax on her hush money? Bribes are not a category of exempt income.

  103. 103.

    Mnemosyne

    January 12, 2018 at 8:42 pm

    Man, I can’t help wondering how all of the Christianist preachers who reassured their flocks that Trump was totally going to come to Jesus any second while Hillary was going to rot in hell for all eternity for being a liar are selling this to their flocks right now.

    I would have to Google it because my cousin who used to post all of that shit on Facebook mysteriously stopped doing it a few months after the inauguration. ?

  104. 104.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 12, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It was a rhetorical question but there is a lot for an enterprising reporter to dig in. For example all the employment petitions for the H visas filed by his corporation. Someone can comb through them.

  105. 105.

    Ken

    January 12, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    @Bill Arnold: Here’s the way I put it together:

    1. Every accusation the Republicans make against Democrats in general, and the Clintons or Obama in particular, has been projection.

    2. One of the more lunatic accusations out there is that Hillary Clinton is running a child slavery and cannibalism ring out of a pizza parlor. (Or something along those lines.)

    3. Combining 1 and 2 tells us that the actual “pee tape” is… ?

  106. 106.

    Vhh

    January 12, 2018 at 8:59 pm

    @MikeifromArlington: Sadly, the most likely tape to leak would be an obvious FSB fake designed to discredit the rest of the dossier, many of whose parts have apparently been verified.

  107. 107.

    RedDirtGirl

    January 12, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @hueyplong: I got a button maker last Xmas and have been having a ball making my own. But I bought a great one recently that says:
    Fuck Trump
    And Fuck You For Voting For Him.

  108. 108.

    Ohio Mom

    January 12, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @Waratah: Me too.

  109. 109.

    cain

    January 12, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    @cain: Nope. It was Starship. “What does God need with a Starship?”

    Curses!

  110. 110.

    cain

    January 12, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    @debbie:

    Other than playing Words With Friends with them and knowing when one of them is hospitalized (or something similar), I haven’t spoken to them in more than a year. By now, it’s irreparable, I’m afraid.

    I’m so sorry to hear this.. also fortunate I have a pretty much progressive set of family members.

  111. 111.

    Gvg

    January 12, 2018 at 9:49 pm

    Does anyone remember some here having pointed out that when news of Trumps Russian connections were about to become news finally, the Billy Bush grab em by the Pussy tape dropped and sucked all the oxygen out of a Russian story that wasn’t proven?
    I now think it’s curious that when he is finally being called racist by the press and some of congress, we have a more conventional scandal drop. Frankly I don’t care about consensual sex or money. We need to stick to the important stuff which is not having too much fun ragging on Trump or his looks or virility.

  112. 112.

    Zinsky

    January 12, 2018 at 9:53 pm

    Trump is truly shit wrapped in skin. Pray for a massive stroke. Soon.

  113. 113.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 12, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    @Gvg: Yes. The Clinton campaign and surrogates were all set to hit the news shows on Friday night and again on Sunday. Then two things happened. The first was Wikileaks dumped another tranche of emails. And someone sent Farenthold the Access Hollywood tape. No nock on Farenthold. He contacted NBC, confirmed the validity of the tape, and did his story. The questions are who sent him the tape? And why that person chose midday on that Friday to do so?

  114. 114.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 12, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    @Gvg:

    which is not having too much fun ragging on Trump or his looks or virility.

    You’re no fun.

  115. 115.

    trump's latest tax plan

    January 13, 2018 at 12:18 am

    If you think this’ll take down Trump, good luck. He could barbeque a toddler in the oval office and Trump voters would defend it. They know he’s terrible and they don’t care. It’s just about pissing off the libtards at this point.

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