Posted on 08/27/2018 7:03:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In the history of presidential scandals, it is often the hidden things that end up proving decisive. Think, for example, of Monica Lewinsky’s stained blue dress or of Richard M. Nixon’s secret Oval Office tapes.
But in President Donald Trump’s recent scandal involving Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels, something that was never there to begin with could play an unexpected role.
The missing item is the signature Trump failed to place on Clifford’s nondisclosure deal two years ago. And if her lawyer has his way, there is a chance that the inch-long blank space could force Trump to testify about what he knew of the arrangement.
As the world found out in more detail last week, the man who structured the hush-money payment, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, pleaded guilty to several charges in federal court.
Under the arrangement, Clifford was paid $130,000 just before the 2016 elections to not speak publicly about an affair that she said she had with Trump. In admitting to the scheme, Cohen not only implicated himself, but also possibly his former boss, in a violation of federal campaign-finance law.
It remains unclear, however, whether Trump, as president, can be held accountable for that offense.
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OK. Wait a sec...
The alleged incident was years before the election.
The non-disclosure agreement was signed by some stripper before the election.
Trump didn’t pay her, the lawyer did.
Trump didn’t sign the NDA.
Exactly what did he do that was illegal ?
I don’t think her repute is in question, it is ill. But yes, she did take the money.
Won the election.
You don’t know my character. We all know Trump’s. Follow him off the cliff if you wish. False prophets do have their followers.
Bingo- yes, she cashed the check described in her NDA, and then she thinks... I can get more (whores always do, am told), and she violates the NDA by “going public”. Therefore there are ZERO grounds for these idiot writers to import ANY importance to whether trump signed it.
She took the money— the contract is valid and... she broke the contract. She should be sued... big time. NDAs are done all the time... all day all over the US, by big companies and small businesses with secrets to keep. This article is drivel, desperate drivel.
So there IS no NDA for Donald Trump to sign because she has no NDA that has Donald Trumps name on it.
Is that you, Low-Energy JEB!?
Nope, but the comment is about the infantile level I’ve come to expect from Trumpsters.
So, what about Trump’s character has you in knots? Be specific.
Answer: no, a sitting president cannot be forcibly deposed. Someone traded in his unread junior high school civics book for LSD
the “writer” Alan Feuer -
2015: CNN: NYT reporter criticized for tweeting sexual taunt to female critic
New York Times reporter Alan Feuer was scolded Tuesday by the newspaper for the “inappropriate” language he used in tweeting a crude sexual suggestion to a female critic...
2005: Adweek: Tracking Alan Feuer, one correction at a time
Ah, our old friend and fabulator Alan Feuer is back in the news — specifically, the corrections section. It turns out that the NYT has been using Metro reporter Feuer’s recently-published book “Over There” about his tour of duty in Iraq to fact-check his work from back in 2003. You may recall that in his book Feuer admits to fudging facts, guessing at names, and reporting on a wing and a prayer from kind of an important place. An Editor’s Note from today’s corrections page:..
https://www.adweek.com/digital/tracking-alan-feuer-one-correction-at-a-time/
he churns out anti-Trump stuff all over the place - click All articles. Deep Swamp Creature:
Muckrack: Alan Feuer
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Just can’t get over it, huh? Who was your pick, the mailman’s kid?
What is wrong with you. CS Lewis, GK Chesterton.... Why don’t you check out Mark Levin... who states that Trump is actually more conservative in his policies and actions than in many ways than Reagan.
You need to consult the Paula Jones case... that was before Clinton was prez.. and therefore... he PAID her out of court settlement. The deposition on Lewinsky was a result of his lying to the Court, while he was prez. Hence the loss of his law license, censure and he should have been convicted for the Lewinsky part of the charges. And that was the OLD special prosecutor law which is no longer in force. O que-— hombre? You are bogged down in former historical assumptions and patterns... .ie. exactly what dems are pushing through their propagandists (its watergate you know?) neatly skipping the real crimes of the clintooonians and obamaumao’s muzzie thugocracy.
You will see more of this grasping at straws, as the exposure of the FISA abuse expands- you’ll know it when you hear bullcrap from Rice, from Ohr’s testimony “closed door” which will be leaked and from.. Brennan and Comey pissing their pants. This should be very entertaining to true Patriot conservatives, not neocons like Bill Kristol (who could be implicated as well, btw, dossier wise).
Mitt? Is that you?
I was guessing libbylu.
Goldberg,Shapiro,Will......
and could sling the invective much smoother and with gusto.
This one is just an Arizona senator, a flake.
Another deep state news source in on the lie.
If following him off a cliff = record low unemployment, accelerating GDP despite Feds tightening, better trade deals, removal of the neocons, withdrawing from a bogus climate accord, fighting illegal immigration and conservative judges, sign me up. Trump did not run as a saint, so a false prophet he cannot be.
I still have the link to her opus - I guess she would have let us all fall to Hillary von Felonious Pantsuit.
“DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3390867/posts
Just 25 more posts or so and it’s 1,000!!
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