Finally the Russia story arc seems to be heading somewhere and the *2018* writers reintroduce the Playboy models subplot?
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 20, 2018
It's like faking an orgasm. They're just trying to hurry this along. https://t.co/g4Ci2s51GH
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 20, 2018
Well well well. Look at Long Island's own Michael Cohen, keeping receipts on Mr. Trump. No man's a hero to his valet.
My column on Cohen's rad treachery: https://t.co/qHsYZwALh6
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) July 21, 2018
… According to media reports Friday, Cohen surreptitiously recorded a shady conversation with Trump two months before the 2016 presidential election. The two goons reportedly discussed how to suppress the 1st Amendment rights of Trump’s alleged former extramarital girlfriend Karen McDougal, a darling-looking skin-mag model. Their cunning plan? To trick McDougal into thinking she was signing a contract to write about the affair exclusively for the National Enquirer.
As for so many of us, journalism seemed like a chance for McDougal to make an honest, fully-clothed living. But, according to McDougal, Trump supporter David Pecker, who runs the company that publishes the Enquirer, killed her story. He wouldn’t let her take it elsewhere, she maintains, but he did promise her a bogus fitness-writing deal that never came to pass.
The writer’s life! Karen, I’m here for you….
If no one but a prude like me is feeling scandalized by the president’s ritual humiliation of his wife and infliction of trauma on his young son, maybe all this prurient chatter should stop here.
Instead, you can approach the president’s perfidy through the indictments of Russian military intelligence commanders for undermining American democracy. But then you have to wade through a lot of Russian and hacker names.
It’s more summery to go the farce route and focus on McDougal, Daniels, Bechard and the Republican bribers who loved them. Plus, Cohen forms a bridge between from Russia and with love…
There’s a useful app called iHere3, which pairs a small keychain device with an iPhone. It lets you wiretap anyone without anything fishy on your phone’s lock screen. If Cohen can manage that kind of spyware, kudos. Impressive — especially while keeping track of all the nude models and Russian oligarchs.
One way or another: bugging Trump. That’s some cold, cold valet work right there. Cohen reportedly has lifelong ties to the Russian mafia, and he’s showing a KGB-level knack for betrayal. I think I admire it.
What’s fascinating is the GOP thinks they can just close ranks around the multi-front catastrophe of Trump. It’s like trying to ride out a hurricane, earthquake and erupting volcano.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 20, 2018
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 20, 2018
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