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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 03:07 PM Aug 2020

Not kink-shaming. I'm apparently-implicit-extortion-to-get-a-presidential-candidate-endorsement sham


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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
✔️ Not kink-shaming. I’m apparently-implicit-extortion-to-get-a-presidential-candidate-endorsement shaming. Cohen knew so, Trump knew.

Exclusive: Business partner of Falwells says he had long affair with evangelical power couple
reuters.com https://t.co/Zb1pn0Ym1Y?amp=1
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Not kink-shaming. I'm apparently-implicit-extortion-to-get-a-presidential-candidate-endorsement sham (Original Post) soothsayer Aug 2020 OP
Having a consensual sexual fetish isn't the problem qazplm135 Aug 2020 #1
This. nt Baltimike Aug 2020 #2
✔️ blm Aug 2020 #4
Throwing your wife out to be pillaried in the press Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #7
probably helps explain qazplm135 Aug 2020 #8
I thought the same thing. If hes the cuck, it can be her fault. Volaris Aug 2020 #12
Thank you. volstork Aug 2020 #9
As I've said before, it's not what he puts in his mouth that's the problem, Volaris Aug 2020 #11
sounds like in this case qazplm135 Aug 2020 #13
I dont believe believe that for a short second lol. Volaris Aug 2020 #14
eh qazplm135 Aug 2020 #16
'.. the kid would spill...' Volaris Aug 2020 #17
Who is it that's extorting who to get a presidential candidate endorsement? Totally confused (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #3
Cohen extorted Falwell to get falwell's original endorsement soothsayer Aug 2020 #5
Aha ... and how have we come to find all this out? Cohen's book, or ??? mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #10
In two weeks: "DISLOYAL" Lock him up. Aug 2020 #18
the guy she was having sex with had photos of her and then Michael Cohen somehow got the photos and soothsayer Aug 2020 #6
How is it that this shit gets stranger everyday? Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #15

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
1. Having a consensual sexual fetish isn't the problem
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 03:17 PM
Aug 2020

doing it while you weaponize morality against tens of millions of Americans is.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)
7. Throwing your wife out to be pillaried in the press
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 03:49 PM
Aug 2020

and in the pews because of her "moral failing" is a nice touch.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
12. I thought the same thing. If hes the cuck, it can be her fault.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:48 PM
Aug 2020

But if hes the bottom, theres no explaining that away lol.

It was TOTATALLY a dick move on his part, but it sure as hell was a calculated one.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
14. I dont believe believe that for a short second lol.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:56 PM
Aug 2020

His calculation here amounts to 'better a cuck than a bottom', and sure as hell that's a waistband gun that's gonna go off.

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
16. eh
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:33 PM
Aug 2020

you can be a cuck and be straight. I don't think it means he's bi.
I think that's tea the kid would spill if present.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
5. Cohen extorted Falwell to get falwell's original endorsement
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 03:38 PM
Aug 2020

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Josh Marshall
·
Aug 24, 2020
A few more points about the Falwell's swinging lifestyle and the 2016 endorsement. One thing to remember is that extortion and leverage is often not explicit. It doesn't need to be. We have very strong evidence that Michael Cohen knew about the Falwells secrets and used ...

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
2/ his experience to hush up potential revelations - the same things he did for Trump, another big Trump ally, Elliott Broidy and no doubt others. So we start with Michael Cohen knew. We also know that Michael Cohen brokered Falwell's critical endorsement of Trump.


Josh Marshall
·
Aug 24, 2020
Replying to @joshtpm
3/ We forget now but at the time that endorsement was a big BIG deal for bringing evangelicals to Trump. Big deal. Now here's the thing, Cohen is negotiating the endorsement, even if it never comes up, can Jerry really forget that Cohen (and certainly Trump) knows ...

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
4/ secrets that can destroy Falwell's whole world. Even if it never comes up, even if Cohen says (maybe especially if he says) don't worry Jerry I would never share the sex pics of Becki or go to the press about the three way stuff, you can't ever unring that bell.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
10. Aha ... and how have we come to find all this out? Cohen's book, or ???
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:35 PM
Aug 2020

Any proof that Trump ordered the extortion, or that Cohen let Falwell know he had the photos?

Wonder how he came to possess them (or did he just front that he had them and it worked)? Did he BUY them from the Pool Boy, to use for this purpose? If so, who paid?

Lordy, I hope there are tapes and/or financial records!

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
6. the guy she was having sex with had photos of her and then Michael Cohen somehow got the photos and
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 03:49 PM
Aug 2020

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Hank Green: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is Out!
@hankgreen
The story isn't that Jerry Falwell Jr's wife had sex with someone other than him, it's that the guy she was having sex with had photos of her and then Michael Cohen somehow got the photos and then Falwell suddenly and unexpectedly endorsed Donald Trump.

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
15. How is it that this shit gets stranger everyday?
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:59 PM
Aug 2020

It makes you wonder what they have on Graham and maybe McConnell.

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