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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 06:14 PM Mar 2018

Mark Sanford calls Stormy Daniels allegations 'deeply troubling'

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 03/07/18 05:07 PM EST

Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that allegations that President Trump had an affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels were "deeply troubling."

Sanford also suggested that Republicans would respond differently to the claims if they involved a Democratic president, according to The Washington Post's Erica Werner, who posted Sanford's comments on Twitter.




"I believe that we need to recognize that everybody makes mistakes," Sanford said. "That having been said, what we can't do in the body politic is whitewash the past or be purely tribal in our thinking."

The Wall Street Journal reported in January that Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen had paid Daniels $130,000 ahead of the November 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about the alleged affair.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/377273-mark-sanford-calls-stormy-daniels-allegations-deeply-troubling
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Mark Sanford calls Stormy Daniels allegations 'deeply troubling' (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
Do Republicans not know what the word hypocrisy means? mcar Mar 2018 #1
waywaywaywait.... d_r Mar 2018 #2
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Mar 2018 #5
Yup gratuitous Mar 2018 #8
Coming from the guy who hid his own affair dmoyer Mar 2018 #3
Sanford Suggested repubs Would Behave Different If It Were A Democratic President SoCalMusicLover Mar 2018 #4
Says the man who went hiking up Mons Veneris? CurtEastPoint Mar 2018 #6
Is that a crack in the GOP dam that I see? Hekate Mar 2018 #7
Rep Mark is actually in awe as to how The Donald got his lawyer to put up $130,000 for a ... marble falls Mar 2018 #9
What happened to the "imperfect vessel doing God's work in the White House" line of bull***t? VOX Mar 2018 #10
But he too loved her tan lines. Corgigal Mar 2018 #11
read the whole quote mercuryblues Mar 2018 #12

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. Yup
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 06:23 PM
Mar 2018

Then he resigned as governor, subsequently stood for election to the House, and a majority of North Carolinians in that district said, "Well, yeah! That's the sort of person we want representing us in Washington DC."

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
4. Sanford Suggested repubs Would Behave Different If It Were A Democratic President
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 06:17 PM
Mar 2018

NO SHIT!!

A Democratic President would get hammered for Months on Faux News, and the House would start Impeachment proceedings the second the story broke.

marble falls

(56,353 posts)
9. Rep Mark is actually in awe as to how The Donald got his lawyer to put up $130,000 for a ...
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 06:26 PM
Mar 2018

"billionaire" to pay off a porn actress over a 'relationship' and not have to repay that lawyer. AND Cheetolini didn't lose anything in a nasty divorce settlement. Mark is not casting shade on Trumps, he admires him too much. He just would like to know how Trump pulled pulled his crap off and Mark had to go out and ask for forgiveness and lost his wife.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
10. What happened to the "imperfect vessel doing God's work in the White House" line of bull***t?
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 06:53 PM
Mar 2018

Is #45 getting a little too imperfect for comfort nowadays?

mercuryblues

(14,489 posts)
12. read the whole quote
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 07:12 PM
Mar 2018
He called out republicans...If this were a Democratic president and hush money had been paid, would there be a series of hearings going on. I think you can point to a fair number of indicators to suggest there would be.
So what you can't do is be completely silent on something that is troubling....


Priceless. LOL
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