I don't understand why the Stormy Daniels affair is such huge news.

[Kablooie]

Why are the Trump people so terrified of details coming out?
So he had an affair, his base won't care. So he had 100 affairs, his base won't care.
Even if it's revealed he engaged in S&M games and ate kittens for sexual excitement his base won't care.

I don't get why they'd rather have their attempts to block her become news week after week which makes it a bigger story and focuses the eye of the world on whatever she says.
If they'd just let it come out she'd have her say and it would fade away into the background of other scandals.
What on earth could she say that would damage him more than he is now?

I really don't get it.

[LAS14]

1. Me either. nt

[forgotmylogin]

26. I wonder if there's a pre-nup clause...

...that kicks in if 45 has affairs.

It probably would read that Melania loses everything if unfaithful, and to be fair, includes her hubby too.

[redstateblues]

2. She was threatened with physical harm if she talked

[jberryhill]

7. She should probably get a lawyer to sue whomever threatened her with physical harm

Such a lawyer would also recommend filing a police report about it.

[Kirk Lover]

38. Oh she has a lawyer....a really good one. He is formidable. n/t

[Alsteen]

3. The Scuttle butt is

That it's not the affair it's the pregnancy and abortion ….

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. wooooo the A word. They'd just say "he was wrong and now he's seen the light - we forgive him like

Jesus would.

More interesting is the amount. How odd $130,000. Surely an abortion isn't that much nowadays

[jberryhill]

15. That would have been an extremely late term abortion

When you consider the fact that the sex was in 2005 and 2006, and the payment was in 2016.

[Yavin4]

19. Maybe she had the baby and there's a Trump love child running around some where.

Yikes!!!!

[SHRED]

4. A blackmailable President isn't a good thing

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Add

to "Blackmailable President"..

"Ignorant President"
"Bigoted President"
"Illiterate President"
"Bullying President"
"Intellectually Lazy President"
"Narcissistic President"
"Lazy President"
"Liar President"
"Delusional President"
"Wife Cheating President"
"Most Hated President"

[Dave Starsky]

29. You forgot "Golf Cheat President".

And probably a couple dozen others.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Well to be fair (WHY SHOULD I ?) thought that ended up being a joke

[Dave Starsky]

43. It was a joke, And I laughed. But it's also serious.

Our President fails on every possible measure of being a credible human being.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Definitely not

But his "base"/GOP don't care about that either.

[shanny]

30. Yup. All the talk about the tough guy, too rich to be bought or bribed,

"I don't settle" (when he always settles) etc. is damaging to his image, and can make even some of our dimmer citizens understand the security risk. If a little "nobody" can come along and hit him up for $130,000 over an affair a decade ago, what could someone do who holds millions of his debt get him to do? Or, say, a rival head of state?

Looks bad for lil' donnie.

[PatentlyDemocratic]

5. The Streisand Effect

Maybe he thinks it would hurt his 2020 chances? He should be more worried about Mueller and the short term.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. But his sole focus is keeping his base. If he keeps congress and his base

he thinks he can survive Mueller and impeachment.

Saw a news clip about how Evangelicals are FINALLY starting to pull away based on his morality issues.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. Who? When?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Geez...work from home and have news on all day in background

so only catch bits and pieces sometimes. It was probably MSNBC - it was a female commentator - and a woman - think from a newspaper whose paper did a story on Evangelical opinions

will try and find

[appalachiablue]

40. I also saw an article on Evang. voters recently but can't recall where. We'll see..

[Proud Liberal Dem]

44. Sorry. It was just a rhetorical question

Hardcore Evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, et. al are still are giving him "mulligans" for his past (and current) moral and ethical lapses, so I'm just surprised that his support among them is slipping.

[TrishaJ]

6. Because the GOP impeached Bill Clinton

over perjury about an Oval Office encounter with an Intern?

Seems like if we want to impeach Trump, it has to be over a lie about sex. That seems to be the only violation of the "Rule of Law" that the current party in power really cares about.

Oh, I forgot the sarcasm tag:

[brush]

8. Just goes to show she must have some really damaging dirt for them to continue trying to stop her...

story from getting out.

[D_Master81]

9. His base may not care but...

This is still a sitting US President paying hush money to a porn star. Any other time time this would be the biggest thing to rock the White House. But here we’re just like, “let’s focus on the real news”

[CrispyQ]

10. I think it ties to campaign finance laws.

And if there were six others who have similar stories to Daniels, & the Con had a secret fund to pay off this type of thing...

That was my take, anyway.

[BoneyardDem]

11. His lies will be exposed via NDA. All the other affairs he has denied

in addition, it appears that there are details. A generic "knowing" of an affair, is cleaner and more easily sanitized than the gritty details. Evangelicals will have a more difficult time ignoring and excusing the behavior.

Besides, what if there really was an abortion or a child to consider? You don't think that this sordid affair (right after his wife gave birth to their child) would create some serious cognitive dissonance with some of this loyal supporters? I really do believe that this is all cumulative and at some point, some of his supporters will have reach one bridge too far, that last straw that broke the camels back.

[jberryhill]

13. The consequences of the payment as a campaign contribution are significant

The rest of it, I agree with you, is not of any particular consequence. We now have confirmation that the guy who cheated on his first two wives also did so on his third wife.

The other shocker here is that a person who had sex with Trump for a while, and likely was compensated for that in various ways, was willing to take $130k not to talk about it prior to the election, changed her mind when she figured she could make more money, and has filed suit to rescind the contract on various grounds.

The payment per se is interesting. The rest of it is important if you want to know the details of Trump's sexual performance.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. "The Brand" must be protected at all costs.

As if T-R-U-M-P doesn't already spell "shithead" to a majority of people, it's all he really has to sell.

It sure isn't his good looks or personality. Or his business smarts. Or his morality. Or...

[njhoneybadger]

16. Married women don't really like their husbands or other men porking porn stars while they're

At home with a baby

[thucythucy]

18. cough (micropenis) cough. nt.

[crazylikafox]

45. yup

[Atman]

21. Like Putin, Stormy has dirt on Trump.

Note that the only two people in the world that Trump won't criticize are Putin and Stormy. He'd trash his own mother if it would score him points, but he won't speak ill of the two people he knows have the shit to bring him down.

[Kirk Lover]

39. Yes...WHY doesn't he want Stormy to talk?

[rock]

24. Say, isn't trump married?

Then I have a clue as to why Stormy is a problem.

[NCTraveler]

33. It's already extremely clear she had sex with him.

That part has been covered.

Malania isn't under the assumption they are in a monogamous relationship. Still, it could help in a divorce. I don't think the agreement would stop a judge from questioning Stormy. Therefore that is even a point of insignificance.

[question everything]

27. Has something to do with campaign finance (nt)

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. I think the answer may lie in the paperwork somewhere.

[Cha]

42. ..

[NCTraveler]

31. Outside of photo's it wouldn't really hurt.

Seems a lot of it is already out there.

I just enjoy the karma aspect. A money grubber fighting with a money grubber. It all sounds so pathetic because the parties involved are pathetic.

[gvstn]

32. It's huge news because they get to say the word "porn" multiple times in a 3 minute story.

[nadine_mn]

34. I think because where the is one payout , there are a lot more

All right before the election and that is where legal trouble can really kick in. The Russian scandal trump assumes he is immune from because so many are involved, but then payouts to women are all on him

[pnwmom]

35. Maybe they're afraid the Stormy virus will spread, and disrupt all their other NDA's, including

the one they probably had Katie Johnson sign when she suddenly dropped her lawsuit a few days before the election.

[Achilleaze]

37. The ring of authenticity plus salacious sex

...cuts at the VITALS - cuts through the larcenous, treasonous, overflowing KGOP BS an era of wall-to-wall shithole-republican lies, making this a standout story (I may be a skank, but Dirty Donny* is a bigger skank, kinda self-excusing mind riff).

That's my take on it.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[MyNameIsKhan]

41. Sex tape ?

[crazylikafox]

46. He must be impotent

or can only get off from a spanking or being peed on.

He always liked the publicity about his affairs, so he wouldn't care much even if there were tapes if they showed him to be a great lover.

[blake2012]

47. The potential Trumps campaign used $$$ to hide affair in runup to election is huge deal

[mnmoderatedem]

48. Really?

you know fully well if this were Obama or any other democrat, the repukes would be going nutso. But they want to give trump yet another mulligan. Enough with the fucking hyprocrisy already.

Plus if there were physical threats, then a crime has likely been committed.