Regarding the Stormy Daniels interview tonight...

[Archae]

I really don't give a shit.

Honestly? I think Trump's people are still paying her, to be a distraction.

Our news media is more interested in sex scandals, since they are rather easy to cover.

The real scandals involving Trump, and the Russians, are more complex, and easy to lose an audience if they get bored.

[HipChick]

1. Are folks really focused on a sex scandal, when he's known for that? It's more around the payments,

blackmail etc...
his humiliation too..

[Skittles]

2. hearing one grifter talk about another grifter

[mindfulNJ]

3. Im puzzled

By these “I don’t care about sex scandals” posts.Do you care about hush money being paid? How about a president that is easily blackmailable?

[Archae]

7. Because thanks to all the stink about Daniels and the hush money...

The more important Mueller investigation is being neglected.

And what question is more important?
Did Trump pay hush money to a porn actress?
Or did his campaign use Russian money and a shady data analysis company?

[JI7]

12. Mueller isn't neglecting anything

[Archae]

19. I didn't say Mueller is neglecting anything.

But our news media is more interested in salacious sex scandals than more dangerous scandals involving Russian money and influence.

[dameatball]

10. I just realized I have over 20 posts since 8:30 this morning....seems I can spare an hour....:)))

[Texasgal]

4. I'm with ya...

I don't give a rats ass about what they did or didn't do. The REAL crimes are occurring right in front of our faces.

I do not plan on watching because it will make NO difference with what is really happening.

[GeorgeHayduke]

5. Interesting

and plausible, but there are just too many gagged women (pun not intended) coming foreward for me to buy that. Coupled with the fact that she's already got loads of cash and likely, as a porn star, has little vested interest in politics other than spanking the guy who screwed her and America (also, pun not intended).

I expect more of these ladies to step-up. I'm thinking she's on her own payroll, not his.

[FakeNoose]

14. In Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury"

... he quotes Steve Bannon as saying they paid off at least 100 women during Trump's campaign.

That's payoffs where they needed women to keep quiet about affairs or encounters with Trump, and most of them were not current. (They were things that happened years ago.) I guess Stormy Daniels was one of them, but I can't be sure. The Stormy thing didn't hit until after the book was published, so Wolff doesn't mention her specifically. Attorney Michael Cohen knows who all the women are, and apparently he's the one who paid them all.

I don't think we've heard the end of this.

[GeorgeHayduke]

15. My point exactly.

I think Daniels is the trickle before the flood.

Not sure if Congress cares, though. Gotta keep on the Mueller investigation. In that sense, Archae is on-point.

[dawg day]

16. Did you see that vapid Karen McDougal?

The Playboy Bunny who "sold" her story to Trump's friend Pecker (can't make that up).
She was not Stormy. In fact, she was amazingly vapid. "Yes, I was in love with him, and he was in love with me." Well, what did you love about him?
No joke-- she said he had good posture.

It's interesting to see what counts as "love". She seemed perplexed to find that not only did he have a wife at the time (she knew that already) but also that he was getting it on with Stormy and others the whole time. Or not getting it on--- I think maybe he's a lot more talk than action.

But boy, she was vapid. I much prefer Stormy, who has a real edge to her.

[GeorgeHayduke]

17. I didn't see it

But I heard about it in abundance. Despite how vacuous she may be, she let asshat stick his junk in her while he was sticking his junk in an unknown number of other people.

Morally, that shit is repugnant, but it wont likely solve our current problem. So, while I dont think Daniels is being paid by the Chump still it is both disturbing but politically inconsequential. Archae is on the right track: Mueller not sensational pornstars and playboy bunnies.

Focus on the money laundering. I know it's less sexy than fake boobs and bimbos on TV, but its the money shot.

Pun intended.

[dameatball]

6. I doubt many of us want to hear sex stories. More concerned about possible political/criminal damage

[Motley13]

8. the 1st family is just like any other family, they will be sitting in front of the TV tonight

[Stallion]

9. I Wouldn't Support Impeachment on the Basis of a Sex Scandal

...but the American people and media are entitled to investigate

[unblock]

13. No one would impeach solely on the basis of an affair.

But paying blackmail...

[unblock]

11. Our political discourse is so messed up.

We have black and white rhetoric on many issues like tax policy where black and white makes no sense.

We decide near dictatorship or democracy on the basis of manufactured fake scandals.

And we can't bring down an idiotic lying gritting criminal worst president ever without a sex scandal....

[lame54]

18. Paying her to distract?...

That's infowars territory