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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's hear it for STORMY DANIELS, who defied her NDA and has been determined to get Trump
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from the very beginning.
The two charges that Cohen fingered Trump for are why Stormy decided to hire Michael Avenatti, and to go public.
THANK YOU, STORMY DANIELS.
Just as a reminder, when Stormy started making her public appearances, Trump was threatening her with $1 million fines EVERY TIME she made a public statement about her arrangement with Essential consultants. That's what the NDA had said. So every time she went out in public, she was defying that -- and trusting Avenatti that the NDA couldn't stop her.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/25/transcript-stormy-daniels-60-minutes-interview/457437002/
(Editor's note: Stormy Daniels' real name is Stephanie Clifford.)
Anderson Cooper: For sitting here talking to me today you could be fined a million dollars I mean aren't you taking a big risk?
Stephanie Clifford: I am.
Anderson Cooper: I guess Im not 100% sure on why you're doing this.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Very brave woman!
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)This is just the beginning.
Pass the popcorn.
spanone
(135,844 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)... but alas, he didn't work at the White House. And Wolff only interviewed people who worked there. I say this because if he had been highlighted in the book, we might have gotten here (where we are now) sooner and with fewer side detours.
As it is, Stormy Daniels wasn't included either, but Steve Bannon is quoted in the book saying that about 100 women were paid off before the election to keep them silent. Stormy wasn't mentioned by name but I'm sure she's part of that number. Therefore her lawsuit against Trump DID start things off with a bang.
It's been a crazy 22 months since the orange asshole stole the election and completely screwed up our lives. I can't wait for this nightmare to be over!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)it probably didn't last very long.
it was just ho-hum (according to Stormy)
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Thank you Miss Daniels!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Take it away, Ella! She's probably doing duets now with Aretha on Cloud Nine!
George II
(67,782 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)I imagine this apprentice grifters will be peeling off one by one now.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Make his life that much harder.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Thank you, Stormy, for your bravery and perseverance, and for your good sense in hiring Avanetti.
I truly hope that Stormy wins Huuuuuuuuuge. She deserves everything she can get for binging the tRump jackass to justice.
(BTW: Avanetti is on with Larry O'Donnell tonight.)
bluestarone
(16,972 posts)Go get him and FINISH HIM OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
handmade34
(22,756 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)You may have saved the entire country.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)and my gratitude. I really like the way she has stood up to the turd.
Way to go, Mrs. Daniels!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)she'd be babbling about his plumbing her if she wasn't paid to keep quiet. It's called extortion and is anything but honorable.
I'd respect her if she'd decided she owed it to her nation to talk and declined the payoff. But she didn't.
And having signed and accepted money, I'd respect her for honoring her contract. She did not "defy" her NDA. She tore it up because of the chance to make a lot more money, and her "defiance" did not include returning the payoff.
I don't require people to be perfect and I like her ability to be honest about herself, but hers as just more of the lowlife behavior typical of those who associate with Trump. We're getting a long look into a disgusting and depraved world.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)I believe there is a God and she has a really good sense of humor.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Cohen worked closely for years for The Target of the investigation, even if Trump's not officially named. Of course the investigation would have turned this up, of limited interest as it may be to Mueller.
Interestingly, Mueller has not interviewed Cohen and has turned Cohen over to the SDNY for further investigation and prosecution of non- Trump/Russia crimes. Perhaps he'll be brought back at some point -- or not. Actually, it's 6 words: Add "State of New York" because they'd be on a bunch of this stuff without Mueller.
Daniels'/Avenotti's public revelations have given the media and us a lot to talk about, and they did inspire Trump himself to babble publicly against the advice of his attorney, but they were not needed by the DoJ, FBI, or Mueller.
Good sense of humor. How about interesting sense of humor? For sure I wouldn't hire God to run a street cleaner.