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20 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

This. I think he does have more than 5 children. We know he doesn't like to use condoms.  And the fact that it is mentioned like this in the documents indicates that he told her he does.

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Seth Abramson has an interesting thread on the legality of the NDA (and what may be the consequences of  the current lawsuit). 

 If Seth's theory turns out to be correct, Cohen shot himself - and the presidunce - in the foot with that NDA.

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26 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Seth Abramson has an interesting thread on the legality of the NDA (and what may be the consequences of  the current lawsuit). 

 If Seth's theory turns out to be correct, Cohen shot himself - and the presidunce - in the foot with that NDA.

So after all the election tampering, constitution shredding, profiteering, conflict of interest, and money laundering, a straight up booty call is what will bring down the House of the Trump Cards?

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2 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

So after all the election tampering, constitution shredding, profiteering, conflict of interest, and money laundering, a straight up booty call is what will bring down the House of the Trump Cards?

That would be hilariously ironic, wouldn't it?

But I'm sorry to say I don't think a thing will be done about any presiduncial violations of the law, and there will be no consequences whatsoever as long as the Repugs rule the Hill.

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Even as of today, they're still attempting to shut her up. It seems they're mightily afraid of what she might reveal.

 

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen tries to silence adult-film star Stormy Daniels

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President Donald Trump's lawyer is trying to silence adult-film star Stormy Daniels, obtaining a secret restraining order in a private arbitration proceeding and warning that she will face penalties if she publicly discusses a relationship with the president, NBC News has learned.

The new pressure on Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, comes a day after she filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles court alleging that a nondisclosure agreement she made to keep quiet about an "intimate" relationship with Trumpis invalid because he never signed it.

Tuesday's lawsuit says that Trump attorney Michael Cohen — who brokered the agreement with Clifford during the presidential campaign — attempted to "intimidate" Clifford and "shut her up" by initiating what it calls a "bogus arbitration proceeding" against her in Los Angeles on Feb. 27.

On that day, Cohen obtained a temporary restraining order against Clifford from the private arbitrator, a retired judge, which bars her from disclosing "confidential information" related to the nondisclosure agreement signed in October 2016, according to a copy of the order obtained by NBC News.

[link to restraining order]

On Feb. 28, Cohen emailed the restraining order to Clifford's former attorney, Keith Davidson. "The document itself is to remain confidential and not to be disclosed to anyone as per the terms of the judge's order," the email, obtained by NBC News, said.

Reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon, Clifford's current attorney, Michael Avenatti, said Cohen, through his own attorney, Lawrence Rosen, has made further attempts to enforce the order and caution Clifford that she is subject to damages if she talks about Trump.

"Earlier today, Mr. Cohen through his attorney, Mr. Rosen, further threatened my client in an effort to prevent her from telling the truth about what really happened," Avenatti said. "We do not take kindly to these threats, nor we will be intimidated."

Cohen and Rosen did not immediately respond to requests for comment from NBC News.

White House spokeswoman Sarah HuckabeSanders said in a press briefing Wednesday that Trump denies "all of these allegations" — that he had an affair with Clifford more than a decade ago or that he knew Cohen had paid her $130,000.

"I have had conversations with the president about this and as I outlined earlier, this case had already been won in arbitration," Sanders said. It's unclear what Sanders was referring to; Trump is not listed as a party on the restraining order issued by the arbitration judge.

Asked about that comment, Avenatti quipped, "Yeah, and he won the popular vote, too."

“President Trump hasn’t won anything relating to Ms. Clifford," he added.

"First of all, it does not appear as if he was even a party to the arbitration Ms. Sanders is referring to. How can you win something you’re not even a part of? Secondly, claiming that Mr. Trump ‘won’ at arbitration when there has been no hearing, no notice to Ms. Clifford, no opportunity given to her to respond, and no decision on the merits, is completely bogus."

Earlier on Wednesday, Avenatti told "Today" that Clifford's lawsuit, if successful, would allow his client to "tell her story."

"She believes it's important that the public learn the truth about what happened," he said. "I think it's time for her to tell her story and for the public to decide who is telling the truth."

The suit asks a California court to affirm that the agreement Clifford signed is invalid.

The "hush agreement," as it's called in the suit, refers to Clifford as Peggy Peterson and another individual as David Dennison. In one of the documents, the true identity of Dennison is blacked out, but Avenatti said the individual is Trump.

Clifford signed both the agreement and a side letter agreement using her professional name on Oct. 28, 2016, just days before the 2016 presidential election. Cohen signed the document the same day. Both agreements were appended to the lawsuit as Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2.

Each document includes a blank where "DD" is supposed to sign, but neither blank is signed.

Clifford and Trump had an intimate relationship that lasted from the summer of 2006 "well into the year 2007," and meetings in Lake Tahoe and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the lawsuit alleges. In the past, Cohen has said the president denies there was ever a relationship.

The lawsuit says that Cohen — who says he used his personal funds to facilitate a payment to Clifford — has been trying to scare the actress into not talking.

"To be clear, the attempts to intimidate Ms. Clifford into silence and 'shut her up' in order to 'protect Mr. Trump' continue unabated," says the suit. "On or about February 27, 2018, Mr. Trump's attorney Mr. Cohen surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding against Ms. Clifford in Los Angeles."

The nondisclosure agreement said any further dispute would be resolved by binding arbitration "to the greatest extent permitted by law."

If the agreement is void because Trump didn't sign it, as Clifford argues, the arbitration clause would also be unenforceable. 

 

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5 hours ago, GrumpyGran said:

This. I think he does have more than 5 children. We know he doesn't like to use condoms.  And the fact that it is mentioned like this in the documents indicates that he told her he does.

How can a germaphobe like Trump not use condoms?

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1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

How can a germaphobe like Trump not use condoms?

He's a self-confessed germaphobe.

I'd like to remind you that of everything he says, the exact opposite is true. :kitty-wink:

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30 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

I'd like to remind you that of everything he says, the exact opposite is true. :kitty-wink:

Believe me 

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1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

He's a self-confessed germaphobe.

I'd like to remind you that of everything he says, the exact opposite is true. :kitty-wink:

But it does make you wonder why he would say it. Does he have a secret proclivity for mud wrestling? Does he lick the counters at the White House like Josie?

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"Stormy Daniels beat Trump at his own game"

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The president who boasted of treating women like sex objects is being outplayed at his own tabloid-warfare game by a porn star. Maybe there’s justice in the world after all.

You might have missed it in the ceaseless fusillade of news, but on Wednesday the White House all but confirmed the story that actress and director Stormy Daniels is dying to tell: Shortly before the election she was paid $130,000 in hush money to keep quiet about an “intimate relationship” she had with Donald Trump in 2006, soon after Melania Trump gave birth to the couple’s son, Barron.

Daniels filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that she should be free to speak about the affair, since a nondisclosure agreement laying out the terms of the payment was never actually signed by Trump. Asked about the payment at a White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump denies the allegations and that, in any event, “this case has already been won in arbitration.” She later added that “the arbitration was won in the president’s favor.”

Trump was reportedly “very unhappy” with Sanders’s performance, but come on, give her a break. How is she supposed to keep all the lies straight as they multiply, overlap and at times contradict? She’s good at it, but every once in a while, a little truth is bound to slip out.

What she inconveniently seemed to confirm is that Trump is a party to arbitration proceedings regarding a nondisclosure agreement involving Daniels. Obviously, there would be no such agreement unless there were something Trump wanted to hide. And if Daniels’s silence was worth $130,000, it must have been something Trump really wanted to hide.

The Daniels affair is of more than just prurient interest: It would appear that Trump may have violated federal campaign law by failing to disclose the payment on his reporting forms.

Any attempt by Trump to stick to his blanket denial — he claims all the women who say he harassed them, assaulted them or had affairs with them are lying — is now moot in the Daniels case, because in an appendix to her lawsuit she included the entire nondisclosure agreement. The filings offer a glimpse of how Trump is accustomed to operating — and suggest why special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has reportedly taken an interest in Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen.

The agreement — in which Trump and Daniels are identified by pseudonyms, “David Dennison” and “Peggy Peterson” — was negotiated at the end of October 2016, days before the election, when Trump’s campaign was reeling from the impact of the “Access Hollywood” tape. The $130,000 payment, which Cohen has said he “facilitated” with personal funds, was not reported as a campaign donation or expenditure.

Daniels says in her suit that in January of this year, when reports of the hush-money payment surfaced, Cohen used “intimidation and coercive tactics” to force her to sign a “false statement” denying any relationship with Trump. In the past week, according to the suit, Cohen has used “an improper and procedurally defective arbitration proceeding hidden from public view” in an attempt to keep her silent — an apparent reference to the arbitration that Sanders claimed had been “won in the president’s favor.”

The agreement, as appended to the lawsuit, shows that Cohen formed a company, Essential Consultants LLC, to make the payment to Daniels. It provides for arbitration in the case of disputes, and it requires Daniels to pay “David Dennison” $1 million per instance if she breaches the contract. It is signed by Daniels, using her legal name, Stephanie Clifford; and by Cohen, for Essential Consultants. The line for “David Dennison” to sign is indeed left blank.

Thanks to Daniels, her lawyer and an unforced error by Sanders, the story Trump has tried so hard to squelch is out. Take a minute and think about it.

The personal lawyer of Donald Trump, days before the election, paid $130,000 to apparently buy the silence of a porn star. Said porn star credibly describes an affair she had with the president and the ham-fisted attempts by his lawyer to keep her from talking about it. All of this unquestionably speaks volumes about the president’s character and morals.

Republicans who regarded Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky as the end of civilization as we know it are serenely untroubled. Evangelical Christians who rail against sin and cloak themselves in piety offer nothing but a worldly, almost Gallic shrug. Daniels has taught us much about their character and morals, too.

That last paragraph is so freaking true.

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Josh at Talking Points Memo has created a Stormy infographic or StormyGraphic.  For your viewing pleasure.  

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Sweet Rufus, Cohen's stupidity defies belief.

Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements

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President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.

The lawyer, Michael Cohen, also regularly used the same email account during 2016 negotiations with the actress — whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford — before she signed a nondisclosure agreement, a source familiar with the discussions told NBC News.

And Clifford's attorney at the time addressed correspondence to Cohen in his capacity at the Trump Organization and as "Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump," the source said.

Cohen has tried to put distance between the president and the payout, which has been the subject of campaign finance complaints.

In a statement last month, Cohen said he used his "personal funds to facilitate a payment" to Clifford, who says she had an intimate relationship with Trump a decade ago.

"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," Cohen said in that statement.

But an email uncovered in the last 24 hours and provided to NBC News by Clifford's current attorney, Michael Avenatti, shows First Republic Bank and Cohen communicated about the money using his Trump company email address, not his personal gmail account.

"I think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of Mr. Cohen and the White House relating to the source of the monies paid to Ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her," said Avenatti, who is representing Clifford in a lawsuit against Trump.

"We smell smoke."

The email, dated Oct. 26, 2016, was sent to Cohen by an assistant to First Republic Bank senior managing director Gary Farro. The email appears to have been a reply to Cohen; the subject was "RE: First Republic Bank Transfer" and the message confirmed that "the funds have been deposited into your checking account."

The email did not provide any more details about the accounts the money was transferred from or to, and it was not clear whether they were personal accounts or corporate accounts. It also did not specify the amount.

According to a 2017 financial disclosure form, Trump has a checking account at First Republic with between $15,001 and $50,000 at the time of the disclosure — though there is no indication that account is connected to the Clifford payment.

The day after the email, Cohen wired money from First Republic to the City National Bank account of lawyer Keith Davidson, who was representing Clifford at the time.

"The $130,000 question, however, is from whose account was the money transferred on Oct. 26, 2016." Avenatti said.

He said the email "suggests" it might have been a Trump Organization account since the correspondence was through Cohen's Trump email. He said it was "curious" that after Cohen got the email, he immediately forwarded it to his personal gmail and then used gmail to forward it to Davidson, presumably to show the money was ready to be wired.

"Mr. Cohen should immediately provide the prior emails [between him and the bank] to show exactly where the money came from," Avenatti said.

Cohen and Davidson did not respond to requests for comment from NBC News. First Republic Bank declined to comment.

Avenatti is representing Clifford in the lawsuit she filed this week, which alleged the nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the election is void because Trump never actually signed it.

In court documents, Clifford says she and Trump, who married Melania Trump in 2005, had an "intimate relationship" that lasted from the summer of 2006 "well into the year 2007" — which Trump's representatives have repeatedly denied.

Clifford gave an interview about the rendezvous with Trump to In Touch magazine in 2011 but it wasn't published at the time. Former employees of the magazine have told The Associated Press it was held after Cohen threatened legal action.

Fast forward a decade to 2016, when Trump was a candidate for the White House battling allegations of sexual misconduct. Clifford, according to her lawsuit, began making moves to tell her story to the media.

Negotiations between Cohen and Clifford ensued. With the election looming, Cohen registered a company called Essential Consultants in Delaware that could be used for the payment.

When he wired the $130,000 to Clifford's lawyer, something about the transaction led First Republic to file a suspicious activity report with the Treasury Department, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The timing of the report or the reason for it are not clear.

A year later, City National Bank's interest in the transaction was also piqued. Officials asked Clifford's then-attorney for information about the source of the money, without revealing why they wanted to know, The Washington Post has reported.

In January, news of the payment broke, putting Clifford in the spotlight. Now, Avenatti said, she wants to tell her story.

"She believes it's important that the public learn the truth about what happened," he told NBC's "Today" this week. "I think it's time for her to tell her story and for the public to decide who is telling the truth."

As NBC News first reported, late last month Cohen seized on a clause in the nondisclosure agreement and got a private arbitrator to issue a secret restraining order barring Clifford from publicly releasing "confidential information" about the agreement.

The agreement uses pseudonyms, referring to Clifford as Peggy Peterson and another individual as David Dennison. In one of the documents, the true identity of Dennison is blacked out, but Avenatti told NBC News the individual is Trump.

Clifford signed both the agreement and a side letter agreement using her professional name on Oct. 28, 2016. Cohen signed the document the same day, but blank spaces where "DD" was supposed to sign are empty.

That means the agreement is invalid and Clifford is free to talk, Avenatti contends. Her lawsuit asks a court to affirm their position.

A day after the lawsuit was filed Cohen hit back. His attorney, Lawrence Rosen, fired off an email warning Clifford that she had violated the 2016 agreement and would be subject to penalties and damages if she continued to disclose information about it.

"The designated judge from the arbitration tribunal found that Ms. Clifford had violated the agreement and enjoined her from, among other things, filing this lawsuit," Rosen said in a statement to media outlets.

But Avenatti said that because the 2016 agreement was never signed and never in force, the arbitration clause it contains is also invalid and the gag order is meaningless.

"We do not take kindly to these threats, nor we will be intimidated," he told NBC News.

The suit also says that Trump must know that Cohen is trying to silence Clifford, since rules for the New York bar, of which Cohen is a member, require him to keep his client informed at all times.

"It strains credulity to conclude that Mr. Cohen is acting on his own accord and without the express approval and knowledge of his client Mr. Trump," the suit says. 

Rachel Maddow (who beat Fox News on Thursday, btw) will have more info on this subject in her show tonight.

 

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I'm curious about the nature of a private contract like this. People meet and sign it or it's circulated to the lawyers of the parties concerned and the various parties come to each lawyers office to sign.  OK, everybody signs (I'm assuming multiple copies), and then each person or person's lawyer keeps a notarized copy?

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 Michael, honey, you need to stop talking. You are making yourself look dumber by the hour.

 

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16 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

 Michael, honey, you need to stop talking. You are making yourself look dumber by the hour.

 

Nothing like basically admitting you took out a mortgage to pay a hooker.  :pb_razz:

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Stormy taped a long interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday for 60 Minutes.   When or how much of that interview will be aired, or how much of it is suitable for viewing by general audiences on a Sunday evening is still up in the air.  I'd pay some money to see the unedited version. 

60 Minutes says it will air at an unspecified future date, but the time is ripe now.  Interesting times. 

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9 hours ago, Howl said:

Stormy taped a long interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday for 60 Minutes.   When or how much of that interview will be aired, or how much of it is suitable for viewing by general audiences on a Sunday evening is still up in the air.  I'd pay some money to see the unedited version. 

60 Minutes says it will air at an unspecified future date, but the time is ripe now.  Interesting times. 

Oh, it's even more interesting than we thought, because...

Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To Stop "60 Minutes" From Airing A Stormy Daniels Interview

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Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop 60 Minutes from airing an interview with Stephanie Clifford, the adult film performer and director who goes by Stormy Daniels, BuzzFeed News has learned.

“We understand from well-placed sources they are preparing to file for a legal injunction to prevent it from airing,” a person informed of the preparations told BuzzFeed News on Saturday evening.

It was not immediately clear what legal argument the lawyers would be making to support the considered litigation, and Trump and his legal team often have threatened litigation without following through on those threats in the past.

Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney who previously was a longtime lawyer for the Trump Organization, directed questions about the possibility of litigation to Larry Rosen, who Cohen told BuzzFeed News is “my attorney handling this matter.” Rosen — a partner in the firm LaRocca, Hornik, Rosen, Greenberg & Blaha — acknowledged his role in the matter generally but did not comment directly on the possibility of seeking an injunction.

BuzzFeed News has learned that CBS plans to air the 60 Minutes interview with Clifford next Sunday, March 18.

An action to try to prevent the interview from airing would be the latest in a flurry of developments in a case that began just before the 2016 election when Cohen paid Clifford $130,000 in return for her silence about a sexual relationship she allegedly had with Trump in 2006. At the time, Trump was under intense pressure over comments he’d made about his treatment of women in the run-up to the vote.

The Wall Street Journal revealed the payment — and Cohen’s route to making it — in January this year, but its details became public only on March 6 when Clifford’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, filed a lawsuit seeking to void what Avenatti now calls the “hush arrangement.”

The lawsuit followed a temporary restraining order Cohen obtained in arbitration — on behalf of EC, LLC, the company Cohen set up to facilitate the payment — in late February to keep Clifford from talking about the temporary restraining order, the 2016 payment, or the underlying “confidential information” the payment intended to protect.

In the suit, Avenatti alleged that the settlement agreement signed by Cohen and a previous lawyer for Clifford either was never valid because Trump had not signed it or otherwise agreed to its terms, which purport to bind Trump, or should be declared unenforceable because the agreement violates public policy. Avenatti included the settlement agreement as an exhibit to the lawsuit.

The next day, Avenatti and Clifford appeared in a photograph with Anderson Cooper, which Avenatti posted to Twitter — including “@60Minutes” in the tweet.

Cooper is a correspondent for CBS News’ 60 Minutes in addition to his CNN anchor job, and CNN later reported that Cooper had taped an interview with Clifford for 60 Minutes.

Asked for comment, Rosen — Cohen's lawyer — wrote, "We represent EC, LLC in connection with the arbitration pending in California, in which a TRO against Ms. Clifford was previously obtained." He made no specific comment regarding the possibility of seeking an injunction to stop the 60 Minutes interview from airing.

Cohen reportedly intervened previously, in 2011, to stop In Touch Weekly magazine from publishing an interview with Clifford in which she detailed the alleged relationship. Four former employees of the magazine told the Associated Press that Cohen had threatened to “aggressively pursue legal action” in connection with the planned story. The magazine, which then held back the story, published the full interview in February, following the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on the 2016 payment.

Any litigation aimed at stopping CBS News from airing Cooper’s interview likely would be an uphill battle, given protections for press freedom against prior restraints — most famously laid out in the Pentagon Papers case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the New York Times and the Washington Post could publish, over the objections of the Nixon administration, classified documents that detailed the history of US decision-making on Vietnam.

Complicating any effort to stop the airing of Clifford’s interview would be the fact that 60 Minutes is not a party to Clifford’s 2016 settlement.

The Supreme Court has a long history of opposing efforts to stop publication in advance, ruling in 1931 that prior restraint was an inappropriate way to deal with alleged press abuses: "Subsequent punishment for such abuses as may exist is the appropriate remedy, consistent with constitutional privilege." In other words, lawsuits — for defamation, for example — can follow publication.

Spokespeople for CBS News did not respond to requests for comment over the weekend.

"Why so many steps to keep the American people from learning the truth?" Avenatti wrote in an email Sunday morning. "And to think that all this time we all thought this was a democracy where we actually valued free speech..."

And then this got tweeted today:

 

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20 hours ago, Howl said:

Stormy taped a long interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday for 60 Minutes. 

Yep, she's quite the businesswoman -- this publicity is absolute gold for her, no matter what actually happened with the Orange Fart Cloud.

Not to mention the fact that her lawyers can obviously think & run rings around the various has-beens & shysters on Team tRump.

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6 hours ago, hoipolloi said:

Yep, she's quite the businesswoman -- this publicity is absolute gold for her, no matter what actually happened with the Orange Fart Cloud.

She's doing shows at a strip club not so very far from Mar-a-Lago!  And lots of women are showing up, some are getting autographs and tucking $$$ into her g string!  For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza

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But there was no mistaking the extra buzz and publicity surrounding Daniels at the Solid Gold, located in a slightly isolated industrial area about 40 minutes south of the President's Mar-a-Lago club. A member of the security team described the clientele as higher end, "white collar."

On its Facebook page, the club advertised the shows as "we the people of the United States present Stormy Daniels, this P*ssy grabs back Mr. President world tour."

Screens around the club advertised Daniels' performance with revealing photos and the slogan "#MAGA -- Make Adult Great Again" 

This needs some editorial assistance:  We the people of the United States present Stormy Daniels: This P*ssy grabs back,  Mr. President! World Tour

I wonder what's going to happen to all of us when the Trump doll deflates and this five alarm dumpster-fire presidency is finally put out.  The entire damned nation will go into withdrawal from mainlining non-stop news meth.  Something new.  Every. damn. day.

I don't watch Fux Newz, but did a bit of the google and discovered the "change the topic to Monica Lewinsky" dodge and pivot strategy, which I'm sure will be employed heavily in the days to come as the Stormy Daniels asteroid heads for Trump World.  Fox News’ desperation to avoid Stormy Daniels It's been mentioned, but the network is working overtime to avoid any serious discussion.

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On Tuesday evening’s edition of Hannity, Daniels’ name was mentioned a single time — by guest Jessica Tarlov, who urged Hannity and Jesse Watters to stop scandal-mongering about the Clintons and Obama and instead talk about Trump. 

“Why are we doing a segment about Barack Obama? Donald Trump is president,” Tarlov said. “Let’s talk about Stormy Daniels.”

Hannity immediately changed the topic to Monica Lewinsky.

 

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1 hour ago, Howl said:

She's doing shows at a strip club not so very far from Mar-a-Lago!  And lots of women are showing up, some are getting autographs and tucking $$$ into her g string!  For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza

This needs some editorial assistance:  We the people of the United States present Stormy Daniels: This P*ssy grabs back,  Mr. President! World Tour

I wonder what's going to happen to all of us when the Trump doll deflates and this five alarm dumpster-fire presidency is finally put out.  The entire damned nation will go into withdrawal from mainlining non-stop news meth.  Something new.  Every. damn. day.

I don't watch Fux Newz, but did a bit of the google and discovered the "change the topic to Monica Lewinsky" dodge and pivot strategy, which I'm sure will be employed heavily in the days to come as the Stormy Daniels asteroid heads for Trump World.  Fox News’ desperation to avoid Stormy Daniels It's been mentioned, but the network is working overtime to avoid any serious discussion.

 

I hope Tarlov is able to advance to a better job at a less judgmental network.  Every time she makes an appearance on Hannity, they stomp all over her.

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*snort*

It looks like the presidunce got outwitted by a porn star, and now is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. 

Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence

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The pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with President Trump offered on Monday to return $130,000 she received from Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer in 2016 for agreeing not to discuss the alleged relationship.

In exchange, the actress, Stephanie Clifford, seeks an end to her deal to keep quiet about what she says was an affair with Mr. Trump that started in 2006 and lasted for several months.

In the letter, which was sent to Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, early Monday, Ms. Clifford’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, wrote that Ms. Clifford would wire the money into an account of Mr. Trump’s choosing by Friday.

Mr. Avenatti set a deadline of noon Tuesday for Mr. Cohen to answer the offer from Ms. Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels.

Under the terms of the deal detailed in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, the contract ensuring Ms. Clifford’s silence would be “deemed null and void’’ once she returned the sum called for in her original contract.

Under Mr. Avenatti’s offer, Ms. Clifford would then be allowed to “(a) speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the President and the attempts to silence her and (b) use and publish any text messages, photos and/or videos relating to the President that she may have in her possession, all without fear of retribution and/or legal liability for damages.”

The letter also seeks an agreement that neither Mr. Trump nor the shell company that Mr. Cohen used to pay Ms. Clifford, which he represents as a party to their October 2016 deal, would move to block the broadcast of an interview that Ms. Clifford taped with “60 Minutes” last week. The letter was also addressed to a lawyer working on the case with Mr. Cohen, Lawrence S. Rosen.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Rosen did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment.

“As we have always said, this is about a search for the truth and the ability of Ms. Clifford to tell the American people what really happened so they can make their own determination,’’ Mr. Avenatti said in a statement. “Our offer proves this out.”

The offer puts the president and Mr. Cohen — who deny that Mr. Trump had an affair with Ms. Clifford — in a challenging position.

If they agree to Mr. Avenatti’s terms, Ms. Clifford can speak openly about not only the sexual relationship she claims to have had with Mr. Trump shortly after his wife, Melania, gave birth to the couple’s son, Barron, but also about what she describes as an effort to silence her with “hush money.’’

The money, which Mr. Cohen has said came from his own personal funds, is the subject of complaints lodged by the group Common Cause with the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department. Common Cause argues that the payment violated campaign finance laws.

New York State’s professional standards for lawyers require that they take settlement offers directly to their clients. That means Mr. Cohen is under a legal obligation to share the proposed deal with Mr. Trump, who has kept his distance from the matter since news of the contract broke in January.

If they reject the offer, they could be seen as effectively acknowledging the existence of a continuing effort to keep Ms. Clifford silent about an affair that Mr. Cohen and the president say did not happen.

The original deal that Ms. Clifford signed required all parties involved to take any disputes into a private arbitration process. Last month, Mr. Cohen won a temporary restraining order against Ms. Clifford through an arbitrator.

But last week, Mr. Avenatti filed a lawsuit claiming that the initial agreement — and thus, the arbitration requirement — was invalid because Mr. Trump did not personally sign the contract.

Mr. Avenatti’s new offer requires the signatures of “all parties,’’ including that of the president.

Yep. He's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. 

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