“But Trump can’t be the one to go there again ...”
Very true. In Mike’s and Trump’s defense, in business sometimes one has the potential to be held hostage to certain allegations that to fight and win them is risky and at most would be a pyrrhic victory. So NDAs and settlements are a tool that gets issues out of the way at the least cost - the cost of doing business. Sometimes there is truth behind the allegations, to it is to not only get the issue gone, but to do so without losing one’s reputation.
The average person is conditioned to see any confidential agreement as a way to hide something bad ...because who would agree to pay someone off if they did not do something wrong. That is a difference between a high level executive and the average person ... it is a cost of doing business, even if one is right. Need to move on to more important things to make money. That’s may be one reason average people are average in the money department.
“The average person is conditioned to see any confidential agreement as a way to hide something bad ...because who would agree to pay someone off if they did not do something wrong. That is a difference between a high level executive and the average person ... it is a cost of doing business, even if one is right.”
To me, an NDA alone means nothing, no different than a corporation ‘settling’ a lawsuit because it’s cheaper than fighting it. And then when you add-in a claim against an announced, or potential, political candidate, the probability of cashing-in increases, since the potential damage to the rich guy is far more than having to ‘explain things’ to his wife (whether true or not)...so even less credibility there.
My standard is EVIDENCE - and that would be documented evidence, at the time - such as police reports, recordings/video, hospital reports, etc. What I would immediately dismiss are second-hand accounts from people who say “Well, she told me that Bloomberg snatched her 20 years ago” - I don’t care if there’s 1 account, or 40 accounts - there are some 60 million Leftists in this country, and virtually everyone of them will lie, if there’s something in it for them (money, or the chance to take down Trump or some other ‘mean’ guy, for example). A few years ago, I was one juror away from being questioned on this subject regarding a rape case...and they would have gotten the same answer from me.