Remember, stormy's goal is not to bring down Donnie

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Stormy's goal is to maximize the value of her story and how much of that value she can collect.

In that light, the 60 minutes interview was never going to be anything more than a teaser.

As her lawyer noted, there is more to come -- unless Donnie again buys her silence, for what's now a more appropriate price. Of course, there are challenges there, even if he were willing to cough up that much.


In any event, remember that her goals are not our goals. She's in it for herself.

[BritVic]

1. Avenetti and Daniels are playing this like champs...

...and the best thing to come out of all this is that the MSM is openly asking Blotus about the affair now - the genie has been let out of the bottle - and it's delicious that he has to keep his big mouth shut about it ! It must be driving him crazy.

[Kirk Lover]

2. And the official statement is that he is denying the affair. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. There's an official statement ? Where ?

[quartz007]

16. New official is the Twitter

doncha know?

[Kali]

4. "and it's delicious that he has to keep his big mouth shut about it ! It must be driving him crazy."

^^^THIS!!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Welcome to DU. . . nt

[femmedem]

3. Not necessarily.

She could well be facing financial ruin over this. And, as she pointed out, she could be alienating half of her fan base.

[emulatorloo]

6. +1. Additionally she said she was tired of being lied about by people who dont know her

Which many of us can relate to.

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8. It's not without risk. All the more reason to figure she wants to get paid for her story.

[ProudLib72]

7. You mean we have to pay more to see more?

Just like a strip tease, which is exactly what I've been comparing this to all along.

[Lithos]

9. For the most part you're right

I think she's a very pragmatic woman, fully in control of herself. I do think she has far more ethics than Donnie, though she still is no angel. (Not referencing her porn career - just how she does business).

But more importantly, I believe I would rather read her version of "The Art of the Deal" than Donnie's. Her control about the story telling and the negotiation has a lot more sizzle and meat than any Trump steak over pretended.

As for anyone who thought this would bring Trump down, you need to expend that energy on getting candidates elected in 2018. As a Democrat, I would take the page from the GOP playbook and bring this story up during any slows news cycle to keep Trump and the GOP off balance and unable to gain any initiative.

L-

[SaschaHM]

10. Eh, anyone that was looking for Stormy Daniels to bring down Trump was looking for Fool's gold ...

anyway. If anything, the one thing in this saga that could truly bring him down is the accusation of "130,000" being an in-kind contribution in violation of campaign finance laws is already out there and with the FEC deadlocked/Sessions at the DoJ/Republican's holding both houses even that's a long shot. Heck, DoJ prosecutors couldn't even get John Edwards on campaign finance violations for Bunny Mellon's million dollar payoff to his mistress.

At best, this hurts his poll numbers, Dems take the house and they can investigate it to bring his numbers down some more before 2020.

Absent her having some sort of smoking gun related to a crime that the FEC doesn't have to authorize an investigation of, this was never going to end w/ the Oompa Loompa resigning on the White House steps.

[blue cat]

11. I enjoyed the hell out of it...

I went to twitter and liked everyone's tweet about spanky trying to get it trending, plus I got to throw it in a group text that I watched the stormy Daniels interview which my right leaning friend didn't know about it but talked trash about trump, so yeah, it was all good in my little world. Oh, and I watched it on my phone while I was cooking for my republican dad, so again, I enjoyed it.

[Hoyt]

12. Truthfully, Ive heard enough. Dont think she has much else to tell.

[rzemanfl]

13. Please don't use "hung" in anything about Drumpf without proof. n/t

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14. Lol. Fixed.

[Angry Dragon]

15. She's in it for herself. This true but so is Spanky Trump

[BritVic]

17. Self-aggrandisement and a never-ending thirst for revenge since Day 1 of his presidency n/t

[C Moon]

18. Donnie may request some "assistance" from Putin.

[blake2012]

19. I doubt she's looking for a Donald Trump payoff. The media exposure is already gold for anything she

does going forward. What is compelling about this is they have a nice little disgusting sideshow to further debase Trump in the minds of Americans with no end of their "news" in sight. It will be yet another front where Trump is lacking any control, and it plays very well against the image he thinks he's projecting of authoritative leader.

[Blue_true]

21. I am ok with that.

If she damages him, I am perfectly with her being out for herself.