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What Does MAGA Stand For? Stormy Daniel’s Edition

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Apparently MAGA stands for Motorboat American Great Again!

The Daily Beast got its hands on the details…

UPDATE: On Thursday, prosecutors dropped charges against Stormy Daniels, who was cuffed for motorboating undercover vice cops while performing at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio.

In a statement, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said no crime was committed because Clifford was not a regular performer at the club, as required under the law she was accused of violating.

“My office was not involved in this sting operation, so any additional questions about it must be directed to the Columbus Division of Police,” Klein added. “The charges have been dismissed.”

Stormy Daniels was busted at a Columbus, Ohio strip club late Wednesday in what appears to be a sting by the police department’s vice squad.

The arrest came in the midst of Daniels’ “Make America Horny Again” tour, and as her attorney continues his crusade against President Trump.

Daniels was charged with three counts of illegally operating a sexually oriented business—employee knowingly touching any patron. According to Ohio state law, anyone who isn’t a family member is prohibited from touching a nude or semi-nude performer.

An arrest report reviewed by The Daily Beast reveals how two female vice cops and a pair of male colleagues entered Sirens Gentleman’s Club and zeroed in on Daniels, as well as two other jiggle joint employees.

The four officers visited Sirens around 10 p.m. to investigate “Vice related offenses as a result of complaints received alleging prostitution and drug activity,” the document stated.

Officer Mary Praither and Detective Whitney Lancaster sat near the stage of the VIP area, where another dancer, Brittany Walters, was performing in the middle of the room and allegedly rubbed her bare breasts on Praither’s face before fondling Praither’s chest. The foursome then headed to the main room and sat at a table. Around 11:30 p.m., Clifford took the stage, and most of the customers “got up from their tables and stood immediately adjacent to the stage throwing dollar bills at Ms. Clifford,” the police report stated. While dancing, Clifford removed her top and “began forcing the faces of the patrons into her chest and using her bare breasts to smack the patrons,” the affidavit said, adding that she was “fondling the breasts of female patrons.”

When the officers observed Cliffords’ antics, Detective Lancaster, Officer Praither and Detective Shana Keckley approached the stage. “Ms. Clifford leaned over, grabbed Det. Keckley’s head and began smacking her face with her bare breasts and holding her face between her breasts against her chest,” the report stated. Clifford then found Lancaster and performed the same stage maneuver, before moving down the stage to Praither. According to the report, Clifford “began fondling Ofc. Praither’s buttock and breasts” before pressing Praither’s face into her chest. Another officer, Det. Steven Rosser, watched the “criminal activity” from the bar area. After Clifford was done with Praither, Rosser exited the club to request backup to arrest Clifford and two club employees: Walters and Miranda Panda.

As The Daily Beast reported in its update, the charges were dropped pretty quickly.

Avenatti is also running a theory up the pole that the whole thing was a set up by a Columbus detective who is a fan of the President’s:

We’ll have to wait and see what he uncovers.

Regardless of whether this was a setup, I’m pretty sure that the assignment for this undercover op went something like this:

Duty Sergeant: Alright, alright, settle down. Here’s today’s assignments, but first I need three volunteers for special duty. Settle down, settle down. You don’t even know what it is yet Here’s what you’ll have to do: feel up Stormy Daniels while she’s stripping at her show tonight. So who thinks they’re up for it?

Open thread!

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  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m sure the Columbus prosecutor’s office is not best pleased with the police, who almost got the city in big trouble with people who had the facts on their side and who know how to create a worldwide stink.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Amir Khalid: If he can find a way to do it, Avenatti will make a case out of this:

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    I want to thank Joe Gibson & his colleagues at the prosecutors ofc for their professionalism starting with our first call early this am.

    I suspect that a lot of prosecutors would wake up in a cold sweat from any nightmare that starts with their secretary saying, “Michael Avenatti is on line 1 for you.” ?

  5. 5.

    debbie

    At this very moment, she’s dancing in another club in that neighborhood. The owner promised he’d tell her what she could and couldn’t do in Ohio.

  7. 7.

    The Dangerman

    Settle down, settle down. You don’t even know what it is yet…

    …and married Guys? Not for you unless you know a good divorce attorney.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    O/T: Just watched Colbert’s monologue, and he totally killed on the hearings. I listen to very little news (reading it instead), so I’m not familiar with many voices. Was that Maxine Waters who asked Louie Gohmert if he had forgotten to take his medication?

  10. 10.

    Kay

    “My office was not involved in this sting operation, so any additional questions about it must be directed to the Columbus Division of Police,” Klein added. “The charges have been dismissed.”

    I’m pleased they weren’t involved. They’re doing better than the US Congress today – they look less foolish. Be Best. That’s all I ask :)

    I’d just like to remind all the MAGA’s who are horrified and scandalized by Stormy Daniel’s work that she was once the President’s girlfriend, so show some respect. Just a coupla years ago President Trump was happy to meet with her.

  13. 13.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    Instead of slapping audience members with her breasts, wouldn’t it have been more clever of her to use a rolled-up magazine?

  21. 21.

    Kay

    @Mnemosyne:

    Well, of course not. Who do the Columbus police think they are? GOP Members of Congress?

    They have an ethical code and a watchdog division. There might even be some real oversight! Could happen!

    Maybe the Columbus police could assign some officers to that student sexual abuse scandal I keep hearing about. Methinks there are some criminals on the lam in their general neck of the woods. The fancy white collar variety. They could look in Congress, see what they turn up. Starts with a “J”- he’s in the Fox news green room right now, probably.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    @debbie:

    She knows that her boy done fucked up by pulling this little stunt, so she’s throwing him to the wolves. The city attorney is probably already drafting settlement terms so it doesn’t go to trial.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    The facts (as I understand them) are she had a romantic relationship with Dear Leader. If she’s good enough for him she oughta be good enough for them. President Trump wasn’t dating Alan Dershowitz. He chose Stormy.

    I think she deserves a crony appointment to the White House and a national security clearance. She can negotiate peace in the middle east. She’s as qualified as any of his other hires. She’s probably smarter than Kushner.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Kay:

    The facts (as I understand them) are she had a romantic relationship with Dear Leader.

    The news here in LA called it an alleged affair(though I thought that both parties had admitted that it occurred).

  31. 31.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @NotMax: NBC must have a shitty Legal Department, if both parties to an affair admit it happened, they can’t sue you for saying it was an affair.

    ETA: I used to work in Satan’s Legal Department.

  32. 32.

    Major Major Major Major

    What a country.

    I had a very San Francisco moment eating dinner from the Whole Foods hot bar.

    The people across from me at the Whole Foods are talking about how central bankers are totally shifty dishonest lying liars and we should put the food supply on the blockchain

    More accurately the man is ranting about it at the woman who is a stranger and just trying to eat

    — Tynan! (@TynanPants) July 13, 2018

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    They can still be sued. The suit won’t hold water, but it takes time and expense to respond to it. It’s prototypical legal department CYA technique.

  38. 38.

    different-church-lady

    CNN Headline:

    Trump says he feels ‘unwelcome’ in London

    That’s because you’re ACTUALLY UNWELCOME IN LONDON, YOU STUPID DIPSHIT!

  39. 39.

    oatler.

    This is America. The Sex Police have been blowing their wads just thinking about Sinful Strippers since 1866.

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    @Kay:

    President Trump wasn’t dating Alan Dershowitz.

    Why have you done this to my mind?

  43. 43.

    BlueDWarrior

    Honestly, I’m wondering just how big of a cup size one would need to hit someone with thier bust and actually have the victim ‘feel’ it.

  48. 48.

    Miss Bianca

    “Who’s up for it?”

    Yeah, I see what you did there.

    Winding down from a gig, there’s some light at the end of the tunnel for a friend of mine who’s involved in a trial right now (summing up is tomorrow, and it’s looking good for our side, YESSSSS!) and best of all, I am hanging out right now with ex-office-kitty-turned-farm-kitty PANCHO! Life is surprisingly good right now!

  53. 53.

    Platonailedit

    Good, lock him up.

    A man who was recorded haranguing a woman for wearing a Puerto Rico flag shirt at an Illinois park has been charged with a hate crime.

    Timothy Trybus, 62, was previously charged with disorderly conduct and assault.

    He allegedly demanded to know if a Latina picnicker was a US citizen in last month’s incident.

    A police officer who was filmed standing by as Mia Irizarry, 24, pleaded for his help has quit.

    Mr Trybus faces a bail hearing on Friday on two counts of felony hate crime.

  56. 56.

    Parfigliano

    @Amir Khalid: alredy in trouble she got publc arrested on pig word…charges immeadiately dropped…only one not gonna pay is the pig they hide behind their “immunity” and do what ever the fuck

    Pig want pay until loss of Law enforce certification to be pig….fired here go work there OINK…take away LA Enforce cert here them squeal

  60. 60.

    Anne Laurie

    Update, from a lady with much more class than the Oval Office Occupant:

  63. 63.

    jl

    So, this was in Columbus? I thought this kind of blue puritanical nonsense was a Cincinnati thing.
    A good friend of mine is in Columbus right now, and she is a trouble maker. I phone her up and ask her if she had anything to do with it.

    @Anne Laurie: thanks for posting that. Columbus cops looking more and more like bogus, hypocritical CYA weasels wrt to this bust.

  64. 64.

    Platonailedit

    @Anne Laurie:

    Classy indeed. If the prosecutor did not drop the charges against the other two, doesn’t that reinforce the notion that the police assholes did this deliberately to frame Daniels?

  67. 67.

    Platonailedit

    Ted Lieu at the Strzok hearing: "Let me start by saying, this is a stupid and ridiculous hearing."— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2018

    Ted telling it like it is.

  69. 69.

    Platonailedit

    Rep. Watson Coleman just went after Gowdy: "You're not the testifying person … if you can't control yourself, how do you expect this Committee to control itself? You've been out of control since you've been on this Committee. Why don't you leave it alone? This is not Benghazi."— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2018

  70. 70.

    M. Bouffant

    At least the Columbus Police are still framing non-Trumpazoids, rather than just dragging them out of wherever & disappearing them in the woods outside of town.

    I figure that will start happening after the mid-terms.

  71. 71.

    otmar

    Good morning. Can someone explain to this naive foreigner why the land of the free needs to regulate if consenting adults can touch each other or not in the first place?

    Or have I misunderstood all this “freedom” and “liberty” fixation that’s so popular on the bother side of the pond?

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    @otmar

    Worse yet,

    According to Ohio state law, anyone who isn’t a family member is prohibited from touching a nude or semi-nude performer.

    “You can’t arrest us, I’m her uncle and he’s her brother!”

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    @NotMax

    Also leads one to conclude that any staging in Ohio of Oh, Calcutta! would have to be, by law, a family affair.

  74. 74.

    jl

    @otmar: I think the undercover cops are claiming that the strippers, with vile intent, malice aforethought and cold premeditation, did forcibly touch, strike, rub, graze and/or slap aforesaid cops’ unwilling and nonconsenting faces with their uncovered barenekkid breasts. I think that is what the police report said. I’m sure the cops were traumatized by it.

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    Well, no one else rose to the bait as to the post title.

    Stormy Daniel’s Edition

    Daniels’

  77. 77.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    Slightly OT, does anyone here know if Peter Strzok is a registered republican? His hair screams “right-wing revanchist” but I can’t find his voter registration anywhere; thanks for your help!

  78. 78.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    “If it had gone to trial: “I request they be marked people’s A DD1 & BDD2, your honor.””

    Fixed that for ya.

  82. 82.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    @Platonailedit:

    Not really.

    In a statement, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said no crime was committed because Clifford was not a regular performer at the club, as required under the law she was accused of violating.

    Presumably the others were regular employees.

  83. 83.

    sherparick

    @The Dangerman: Also married ladies, as women seem to have been a considerable part of the audience. I have heard conflicting reports that contrary to the Columbus Police press release, these were the first arrests under the law in years in Columbus, which really does remind one.

  84. 84.

    JWL

    Ohio prosecutors had no choice but to drop the charges against Daniels, not after cell phone videos of her arrest showed the cops that busted her all wearing MAGA caps.

  85. 85.

    Dog Mom

    So if this was an ongoing, undercover investigation focused on human trafficking among other things – was it really worthwhile to expose it to arrest Stormy Daniels?

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