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Tell the Truth about Stormy Daniels
National Review ^ | May 8, 2018 | RICH LOWRY

Posted on 05/08/2018 4:20:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Rudy Giuliani’s account of Donald Trump’s role in the payment to Stormy Daniels has collapsed into near-incoherence.

In his latest interviews, the newly minted Trump lawyer has adopted a posture of impenetrable epistemological modesty — there’s nothing he knows about the case, or can possibly learn about it anytime soon. Giuliani retreated to this tack after directly contradicting the president’s denial of knowing anything about the hush money, and getting rebuked by Trump for being ill-informed and not yet up to speed.

It shouldn’t be this complicated. Getting their story straight would be much easier if they adopted a simple, nay simplistic, legal and political strategy — telling the truth.

Giuliani shocked the political world when he said last week that Trump had reimbursed his fixer Michael Cohen for the payout to the porn star. Rudy declared that this made it a private transaction, and therefore it couldn’t be a campaign-finance violation. Case closed.

But the legal reasoning wasn’t airtight — if Cohen made the payment to influence the campaign, it didn’t matter if Trump paid it back or not — and Trump wasn’t ready to endorse Rudy’s version of events.

By this past weekend, the former New York City mayor was on This Week on ABC News, incapable of saying much of anything at all. Had, George Stephanopoulos asked, Trump met Stormy Daniels? “It depends,” Giuliani replied, “on kind of what you mean by met her, right?”

When did Trump first learn Daniels asked for payment? “Don’t know and doesn’t matter to me.” Stephanopoulos pointed out that Giuliani told the website BuzzFeed that Cohen complained to Trump about not getting paid back after the 2016 campaign. So, the president knew about the payment after the campaign?

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: betamale; giuliani; homolowry; soyboy; stormydaniels; trump; zotme
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To: DoodleDawg

The media has the clown pretending to be a Lawyer for this whore on 56 times. It would NOT matter what the WH said, the Media is pushing a narrative.

The DNC;s thinking is Stomry will get the Evengelicals to turn against Trump. That why Rob Emmanuel, not “Stormy’ is paying his bills. Dems still do not realize their “murder the children when ever possible” Abortion agenda makes them utterly voteable for any thinking Christian.

Wise up, you naive faith in the “news media” is foolish in the extreme


101 posted on 05/08/2018 7:14:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: reaganaut1

Trump always tells the truth. The dems can’t stand that. They will twist and pervert any story to claim that he lied. President Trump followed the law perfectly. No FEC violation. More dem heads explode....


102 posted on 05/08/2018 7:26:45 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: MuttTheHoople

‘Flight 93 Election’, I like that. Quite an apt analogy.

How about if all the trolls who keep harping on the hooker nonsense get together and register as democrats. Just go get it over with. Then you can wait around for your saintly candidate to emerge.

The rest of us will support our President who pulled this country out of one hell of an economic ditch, smashed ISIS, and has exposed the savagery of the DC Swamp Creatures. All at breakneck speeds.


103 posted on 05/08/2018 7:31:26 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Just mythoughts
How do you know Donald Trump 'was' an unrepentant 'serial adulterer'?

He said so in his books and interviews. He publicized his affair with Marla Maples while he was married to Ivana. He wrote in his books about affairs with married women. He said he'd never felt he needed to repent anything he'd done.

Regardless of whether he had sex with Stormy Daniels as she claims, my description is accurate by his own account.

104 posted on 05/08/2018 7:37:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: reaganaut1

Trump has flaws just as we all do, but his strengths far outweigh his flaws.


105 posted on 05/08/2018 7:51:37 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: reaganaut1

Rich Lowry hates Trump. Do you really think a guy with 9 billion dollars bothers with an over the hill porn actress? He can have super models and actresses. Frankly I doubt he did anything with that skank.


106 posted on 05/08/2018 7:54:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Tax-chick
He said so in his books and interviews. He publicized his affair with Marla Maples while he was married to Ivana. He wrote in his books about affairs with married women. He said he'd never felt he needed to repent anything he'd done. Regardless of whether he had sex with Stormy Daniels as she claims, my description is accurate by his own account.

I love Trump speak. His 'repentance' or lack there of, is between him and God. I have not read his 'book'. I do not get flush reading about other peoples sex lives.

Trump speak sure brings out the holier than thou types... per your accusation 'cover-up'... Your description, is filtered through your own need, to point an accusing finger for the 'cover-up'. You do not like President Trump, never have... that is your prerogative .... but, it sure would be more honest of you to state that up front, when you need to point an accusing finger.

107 posted on 05/08/2018 7:55:43 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Right Brother

Women would never cheat, right? /s

A+ in reading comprehension.


108 posted on 05/08/2018 8:09:59 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Thanks a lot. May I call you Tim? LOL


109 posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:28 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: dforest
Just saying

Just because you say? Sorry but I don't.

110 posted on 05/08/2018 8:26:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: reaganaut1

I am happy to designate myself, at this point in time, a “RINO”. I am the real-deal. I have to have the “Republican” name for a voice in a party, but I find that I have very little in common with contemporary Republicans.

At the age I am, all of my presidential election votes have been “hold your nose” votes, except for Trump.

This article, I expect, is simply the voice of the “Cheap Labor Express”, trying to get its way in the only way it can, right now. It’s hard to write an article that says, “A massive trade deficit with China, outsourcing jobs, and illegal immigration really ARE good ideas!” I mean, who needs reduced unemployment and middle-class prosperity?

The Republicans still have a massive amount of Swampers in DC and CLE-types everywhere else. They still need to be dealt with after the Democrats, if it can be done. Betting against America’s future is hardly any better than actively working against it.


111 posted on 05/08/2018 8:31:01 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Lx

Low Life Lowry is a dirtbag trump hater. He has driven NR into the ground.


112 posted on 05/08/2018 8:31:57 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Maris Crane
May I call you Tim?

Only if ye seek the Grail, which lies in a cave.... ;-)

113 posted on 05/08/2018 8:33:01 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: reaganaut1

Trump is such an awful man. Too bad we didn’t get Saint Hillary to be our leader. She has no skeletons in her closet /s


114 posted on 05/08/2018 9:07:49 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: reaganaut1
This is good advice. I do want Trump to serve out his term, but he is a man of poor character. He is a serial adulterer and a man who cannot keep his story straight, which makes him and his subordinates look ridiculous.

Just like the holdouts from the Japanese Imperial Army in the Pacific, some Free Republic Cruzers never surrendered.

reaganaut1 is a sterling example.

Facts don't matter. President Trump is destroying the Democrat Media Death Star, which has been used to keep the conservatives down for decades.

https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/0735219710


115 posted on 05/08/2018 9:42:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: reaganaut1

>>>He is a serial adulterer<<<

I hear that phrase being thrown about, yet I have only heard a few Stories. I understand he went after Marla Maples when his first Marriage was failing. Not sure if it was the reason it was failing, but like they say, timing is everything.

I remember a Joke about Trump compared to Bill Clinton. Trump Marries his Mistresses, Clinton’s Wife destroys his.


116 posted on 05/08/2018 9:50:38 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: ScottinVA

Well then that would beg the question about whether trump issued her a 1098 or 1099 or whatever the correct irs form is.
Personally I could care less if he sport - did her.


117 posted on 05/08/2018 9:52:30 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: reaganaut1
"Tell the Truth about Stormy Daniels"

But feminists don't want anyone calling any woman a whore under any circumstance. According to them, virtuous women are to be regarded as being the same as...them, and vice versa.


118 posted on 05/08/2018 9:55:39 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: reaganaut1

Screw you nevertrumper
And Bitch Tits Lowery


119 posted on 05/08/2018 9:56:41 AM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: DoodleDawg
And if the administration had settled on a single story at the beginning and stuck with it then people wouldn't continue to report on it. A lot of this aggravation is self-inflicted.

LOL - you mean like they did with "Russia Collusion"? The response has consistently been it didn't happen. Did that stop the reporting?

120 posted on 05/08/2018 10:15:31 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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