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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsComey friend warns Stormy Daniels saga could unravel years of Trump hush money payouts
Comey friend warns Stormy Daniels saga could unravel years of Trump hush money payoutsTRAVIS GETTYS
09 MAR 2018 AT 09:41 ET
A friend of former FBI director James Comey predicted the Stormy Daniels scandal could open the floodgates for other women to talk about their past dealings with President Donald Trump.
Journalist Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told MSNBCs Morning Joe that the porn actress lawsuit against the president over an unsigned non-disclosure agreement could embolden others to come forward.
The biggest implications, since this is already out there, is not whether Stormy Daniels will be able to talk, Wittes said.
The biggest implication is that there are presumably other such agreements, he continued, and the question is whether you create an environment in which everybody who has a nondisclosure agreement with the president feels free to come forward and say what that person, he or she, knows and that would be, I would think, a problem for the president.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said the lawsuit puts Trump into an awkward position.
Maybe he has a signed copy of the contract, but if he does, then he has to acknowledge that he signed the contract, Robinson said. So hes sort of been twisted between there.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/comey-friend-warns-stormy-daniels-saga-unravel-years-trump-hush-money-payouts/
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Comey friend warns Stormy Daniels saga could unravel years of Trump hush money payouts (Original Post)
poboy2
Mar 2018
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Cover-ups matter: Stormy Daniels lawyer says he can prove Trump is lying about porn star payoffs
poboy2
Mar 2018
#6
MFM008
(19,808 posts)1. Think of all
Those beauty contestants........
poboy2
(2,078 posts)3. exactly...and what about all those law suits he claimed he was going to bring?
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2. Popcorn futures just rose 50 points
duforsure
(11,885 posts)4. Especially if one was paid to the 13 year old and the witness
He raped her.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. Shame. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is, frankly,
quite the republican pervo-piggy. republican "family values" - the real ones they live by, not the ones they pretend to live out - are dredged up from the bottom of the moral cesspool. Ongoing republican support of a Casino Hustler Sexual Troglodyte makes their true values glaringly obvious. Shame on them and their squirrelly, truth-twisting republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)6. Cover-ups matter: Stormy Daniels lawyer says he can prove Trump is lying about porn star payoffs
Cover-ups matter: Stormy Daniels lawyer says he can prove Trump is lying about porn star payoffs
Brad Reed BRAD REED
09 MAR 2018 AT 07:53 ET
The attorney representing adult film star Stormy Daniels said on Friday that he believes he can prove that President Donald Trump has been lying about what he knows about attorney Michael Cohens decision to pay hush money to his client.
Appearing on CNN, attorney Michael Avenatti was asked by host Chris Cuomo why he believed it was important for the American public to know the details of Daniels affair with the president, which allegedly occurred last decade shortly after his wife Melania gave birth to their son, Barron Trump.
Because cover-ups matter, replied Avenatti.
Meaning what? Cuomo asked. Whats the cover-up?
The cover-up is that you have attorney Cohen claiming that Donald Trump never knew anything about this, he said. You have the White House claiming Donald Trump never knew anything about this. That is going to be shown to be patently false.
We have substantial evidence and facts that were not included in the complaint, the attorney explained. Were not going to lay all of our cards out on the table when that evidence and those facts come to light, the American people are going to conclude that attorney Cohen and the White House have not shot straight with them on this issue.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/cover-ups-matter-stormy-daniels-lawyer-says-he-can-prove-trump-knew-about-star-payoffs/
poboy2
(2,078 posts)9. youtube-Cover ups matter': Stormy Daniels' lawyer says he can prove Trump knew about payoff
poboy2
(2,078 posts)7. Bump for Trumpy McTreason. -nt
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)8. Dirty Donnie* is in Deep Doo Doo
* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief