Posted on 05/08/2018 4:20:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Rudy Giulianis account of Donald Trumps 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 theres nothing he knows about the case, or can possibly learn about it anytime soon. Giuliani retreated to this tack after directly contradicting the presidents denial of knowing anything about the hush money, and getting rebuked by Trump for being ill-informed and not yet up to speed.
It shouldnt 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 couldnt be a campaign-finance violation. Case closed.
But the legal reasoning wasnt airtight if Cohen made the payment to influence the campaign, it didnt matter if Trump paid it back or not and Trump wasnt ready to endorse Rudys 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? Dont know and doesnt 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?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Stephanie Gregory Clifford (Stormy Daniels) has no credibility. Trump played the feminist game by its own real, implied rules and won. He who gets rich and politically influential gets to buy and sell women, and they’re not allowed to run wild.
Try tossing that rule out to take down the “good ol’ boys,” and see what’s already happening. The current moral paradigm is fake and oddly selective. See the academic and corporate feminists of the left trying to protect their illegitimate boys. We’re going back centuries to earlier social policies. Straight and sober people are circling their wagons and watching the crazy show around them.
NATIONAL REVIEW SUCKS. And Lowry is the suckiest...excepting maybe Andrew McCarthy.
I've heard that Rich Lowry's breath smells like Bill Kristol's @ss...
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
There is a ‘core’ to President Trump that has stood head and shoulders above any political candidate I have observed since President Reagan... Unadulterated love of country... You NeverTrumpers would and do sell US out in a heartbeat. Now why did God say that before being born He loved Jacob and hated Esau?
Ding ding ding ... we have a winner!
I agree with you, but the Trumpbots here cannot deal with the truth. .............................. Trump won because they ran Hillary. Had any of the other GOP candidates won the nomination (includes Cruz), all this would not be News, and president Hillary couldn’t care less.
There are 126 Comments as I write this...
Approximately 100 Comments exclaim that “No one cares about the Stormy issue.”
The other 26 berate the Poster because he does care about the Stormy issue.
This thread has become a classic case study in “Cognitive Dissonance.”
Its funny that the only ones who care are the late night and SNL types who supposedly support any kind of sex with anyone except forced or on kids. They think Trump voters are entirely prude and sexless and would never support someone who was sexually provocative or indiscreet.
One thing Trump could have done long ago, been more direct with Hannity in his sit downs when he ran. Not just smile and say all his divorces were his fault. That was good. But he could have been MORE honest, knowing he also cheated on Melania- on his young childs mom - and said that he doesnt put himself forth as a good husband. Or something vaguely covering his relatively recent exploits.
Herman Cain might have been president if he had just been in front of it, saying he caused pain in his marriage etc.
Men running for office: the day you announce, please just say Im not a choir boy and if you go into my past, youll see that. But I will fight for your constitutional rights, I will represent you, bla bla bla
Enough. Many people have sexual pasts. We can somehow handle this. We dont even want to know.
This was a flight 93 election- a bunch of Normals rushed the cockpit of America in an effort to keep Democrats from blowing up our country.
The media cats follow the laser. Whos got the laser?
Im not kidding.
Yes, I banged her and paid her to keep quiet about it. Now she’s blackmailing me for consensual sex. **** her and **** you.
Thank you.
Let me tear the scales from your eyes, Team Holier-Than-Thou. We know exactly who Donald Trump is. Hes imperfect, like everyone but you guys. Interestingly, there is some evidence he is experiencing something of a religious awakening, but you in the Churchlady Right reject that possibility a unique take on Christianity,...
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