Trump's former bodyguard hired by RNC for $15,000 a month

[Snake Plissken]

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in her new book that she was offered a $15,000-a-month hush money contract from President Trump’s campaign to keep quiet about her time in the administration.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/401285-omarosa-says-she-was-offered-hush-money-to-stay-quiet-about-time-at

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/donald-trump-keith-schiller-rnc-contract/index.html

Coincidence? ... not a fucking chance.

$15K a month is the going rate to keep quiet about Trump

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Yep. Hush money.

[marylandblue]

2. But Manigault thought she could get more than that for her book

So they should have offered here a better deal.

[cbdo2007]

3. She didn't turn it down for moral reasons...she turned it down because it wasn't enough.

I'm sure she counter offered with something ridiculous and they said no, and she did the math and someone offered her a book deal for x amount.

All of these people are money hungry scam artists, so it's all a game of who can scam the best.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. That silence doesn't come cheap. It's amazing that Trump doesn't pay any of that shit himself.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. There's a "prisoners' dilemma" aspect to this - "blackmailers' dilemma"?

If they all keep quiet and take the regular payments, they might get paid until Nov 2020. They might get more after that from the RNC or other people, if they're implicated. But if one of them takes the chance to rat on Trump, they get a good book deal which will get them more in the short term. But if their dirt isn't enough to impeach him, perhaps the interest in the book will wane. But if it is, the book could sell millions. And then what if another regime member writes their book first???

Decisions, decisions ...

[Grasswire2]

6. They've been paying Hope Hicks too, I think.

And now he wants her -- a federal witness against him -- to come back to work at the WH.

CRAZY

[Grasswire2]

7. P.S. it could be Russian money. nt

[JDC]

8. That sounds JUST LIKE a Mike Cohen deal.

He managed the RNC funding didn't he?