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BumRushDaShow

(129,017 posts)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:28 PM Apr 2018

Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women

Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON - The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trumps personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the publisher of The National Enquirers role in silencing one of the women, several people briefed on he investigation said.

The search warrant carried out by the public corruption unit of the Manhattan federal attorneys office seeks information about Karen McDougal, an ex-Playboy model who claims she carried on a nearly yearlong affair with Mr. Trump shortly after the birth of his son in 2006. Ms. McDougal was paid $150,000 by American Media Inc., the Enquirers parent company, whose chief executive is a friend of Mr. Trumps.

Agents were also searching Michael D. Cohens office for information related to Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, who says she also had sex with Mr. Trump while he was married. Mr. Cohen has acknowledged that he paid Ms. Clifford $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement to secure her silence just days before the 2016 presidential election.

Mr. Cohens lawyer, Stephen Ryan, on Monday called the raids inappropriate and unnecessary. In an email on Tuesday, he referred back to that statement.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-russia-mueller-rosenstein.html

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Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 OP
The plot thickens sheshe2 Apr 2018 #1
"Payments" Botany Apr 2018 #3
"The Fixer" BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #6
Take the national enquirer down too? SonofDonald Apr 2018 #2
ANOTHER one got paid off by a DIFFERENT business friend? bucolic_frolic Apr 2018 #4
Getting hot in the kitchen. gademocrat7 Apr 2018 #5
There are probably "binders full"... Drum Apr 2018 #7
That guy on the left reminds me of Jack Nicholson. NBachers Apr 2018 #8
He does BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #9
He kind of reminds me of John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry on The West Wing, but I couldn't find NBachers Apr 2018 #11
Yeah BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #13
Michael McKean? Demit Apr 2018 #17
Pretty close BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #19
Watching the Zuckerberg hearing, I just figured out who he looks like BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #20
In "Fire and Fury" Steve Bannon told Michael Wolff FakeNoose Apr 2018 #10
Yeah BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #12
I think these are the women who refused to sign the NDA FakeNoose Apr 2018 #21
Question: Who's paying more (unit price), Trump or Cosby? brooklynite Apr 2018 #14
Probably Cosby BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #16
I bet he has alot of women whom he paid off through his lawyers SummerSnow Apr 2018 #15
And Cohen was at the heart of it all... Wounded Bear Apr 2018 #18

Botany

(70,506 posts)
3. "Payments"
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:35 PM
Apr 2018


So what # of different women that Trump has paid off to
keep quite will it take before the evangelicals dump him?

I think it will be >15 or payments for >3 abortions.

bucolic_frolic

(43,166 posts)
4. ANOTHER one got paid off by a DIFFERENT business friend?
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:36 PM
Apr 2018

I lost track of who's shakin' down who.

Joe Sixpack has got to be askin' WHERE do I get friends like that so I can get some of THAT?

And how come HE does what he wants and the rest of us are supposed to be FAMILY VALUES Republicans?

NBachers

(17,110 posts)
11. He kind of reminds me of John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry on The West Wing, but I couldn't find
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:39 PM
Apr 2018

a picture of him with a sour face on.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817983/?ref_=tt_cl_t2

BumRushDaShow

(129,017 posts)
19. Pretty close
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 04:07 PM
Apr 2018

This is McKean (right) with Bryan Cranston (center) -



Although Bryan Cranston seems even closer (I never watched Breaking Bad but...)!



lol I think we have lost our minds.

BumRushDaShow

(129,017 posts)
20. Watching the Zuckerberg hearing, I just figured out who he looks like
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 04:20 PM
Apr 2018


(since he is questioning Zuckerberg at the moment)

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
10. In "Fire and Fury" Steve Bannon told Michael Wolff
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:37 PM
Apr 2018

... that during the last few weeks of the campaign they paid off 100 women so they wouldn't come forward and embarrass Trump with allegations of sexual misconduct.

They weren't necessarily alleged affairs like Stormy Daniels, but many were about Trump grabbing and kissing/groping various women without their permission. The women aren't named in "Fire and Fury" but I would guess that Daniels was one of those. Certainly Michael Cohen would have all their names and signed NDAs, because he's the one who paid them & kept them quiet.

BumRushDaShow

(129,017 posts)
12. Yeah
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:43 PM
Apr 2018

I know there have to be a lot of them. For some reason, I remember stuff posted about a number of cases of women interested in coming forward. One article is here that references 19 -

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct

Matt Ford Dec 7, 2017

<...>

Lurking in the background of the roiling debate about harassment and assault in American society are the allegations made against President Trump by at least 19 women, many of whom came forward after the release of the Access Hollywood tape in October 2016. Trump vociferously denies any wrongdoing. “Is the official White House position that all of these women are lying?” a reporter asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, in late October. “Yeah, we’ve been clear on that from the beginning, and the president’s spoken on it,” Sanders replied.

Some of the women’s stories date back to the 1980s when Trump’s personal relationships were fixtures of the New York City tabloids; others begin after he returned to the public eye with his NBC series The Apprentice. Their accounts describe a wide range of alleged behavior, including lewd remarks, overt harassment, groping, and sexual assault. One woman, Summer Zervos, is currently suing the president for defamation after he repeatedly called her and the others liars. What follows are details from each accuser—listed alphabetically—and the president’s corresponding defense.

<...>

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/what-about-the-19-women-who-accused-trump/547724/

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
21. I think these are the women who refused to sign the NDA
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 05:33 PM
Apr 2018

They were mad and they wouldn't take any money. The others who did take the money, we didn't hear from them. Cheeto is just a skeevy creep, and Cohen is the enabler.


BumRushDaShow

(129,017 posts)
16. Probably Cosby
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:59 PM
Apr 2018

because of the big age difference and the longer time period being "out there".

Cosby was a big TV star (and multi-Emmy award winning) during the time Drumpf was in college, most likely fully engulfed in that "beat generation's" sex, drugs, and rock and roll (along with the likes of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson).

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
15. I bet he has alot of women whom he paid off through his lawyers
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:56 PM
Apr 2018

and I bet several of them had abortions or child support payments

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
18. And Cohen was at the heart of it all...
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:07 PM
Apr 2018

at least for the last 10 years or so.

Hopefully, personal NDAs are a thing of the past. I can see them for intellectual property, but to cover up crimes is just wrong.

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