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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe President and the Porn Star
The President and the Porn Star
By Eugene Robinson
January 26, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Wait, back up a minute. We just zoomed past a story that would have been a five-alarm scandal for any other administration, with weeks of screaming front-page headlines: "The President and the Porn Star."
The Wall Street Journal had the scoop on Jan. 12: "A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter."
The porn star in question is a woman named Stormy Daniels. The alleged affair took place in 2006, a year and a half after Trump married his third wife, Melania, and just months after their son Barron was born.
Whoa. You'd think that Trump's supporters in the evangelical movement would finally call him out for his loose -- or nonexistent -- morals. Instead, however, they have suddenly turned into a bunch of Left Bank cafe intellectuals, scoffing at silly American Puritanism as they sip absinthe and flick ashes fro
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The President and the Porn Star (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2018
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MFM008
(19,826 posts)1. We're not talking about Melania
Right?
Arkansas Granny
(31,536 posts)2. Right. We're talking about another one.
FTR, I don't really care about Melania's nude pics or films. Many young women trying to get a foothold in modeling or acting make that choice.
My wife has a word for her but I don't even feel it appropriate to post it using a screen name.
gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)4. It is hard
to keep track. I just use porn star1 and porn star2 and 3, and 4, and so on and so on. Actually Marla coined the term porn star 1. History repeats.
mitch96
(13,932 posts)5. "The President and the Porn Star"
I think o'l Stormy is gonna soon realize that a TELL ALL BOOK will make her more that the $130,000 payoff....
Now THAT would be an interesting read... "Diary of a presidential porn star" Yup that would work... The evangelicals would even read it!!! After all he's their boy, right?
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