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crud

(617 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 10:40 AM Mar 2023

Stormy Daniels was paid for her silence

Dear news media, This possible indictment IS a big deal. It's not a false FEC filing, or a business records issue. It is a presidential candidate defrauding the American voters. No one knows if the discloser of trumps affair would have eroded his support enough to put Hillary in the White house. We will never know that, but we do know that trump thought it would, and illegally bought off her silence, so he could win. He cheated the American people, and the harm was done to us all.

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Stormy Daniels was paid for her silence (Original Post) crud Mar 2023 OP
????? niyad Mar 2023 #1
Hey, poster, please use names and nouns Vogon_Glory Mar 2023 #2
This Ferrets are Cool Mar 2023 #3
if you don't honestly know then you haven't been paying any attention jcgoldie Mar 2023 #4
I suspected that it might be Stormy but who can be sure? Vogon_Glory Mar 2023 #6
I edited the title of the thread crud Mar 2023 #5
Thank you Vogon_Glory Mar 2023 #7
Also serious is an attempt to obstruct and cover up the underlying crime. nt wiggs Mar 2023 #8
The sneaky money-switch is the cover-up that is the serious matter. lindysalsagal Mar 2023 #15
Of course that Traildogbob Mar 2023 #9
Was it ever revealed, was there a payment up front for the liason, or only later for silence bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #10
I dont know but... jcgoldie Mar 2023 #11
mushroom CTyankee Mar 2023 #12
now you did it. I had almost forgotten... Evolve Dammit Mar 2023 #14
Believe Cohen said it was a payment for silence. Maybe "affair" is used more casually than it used allegorical oracle Mar 2023 #19
All politicians lie, or tell half truths, all. republianmushroom Mar 2023 #13
It might have kept a few christians Tree Lady Mar 2023 #16
And don't forget that one person, Michael Cohen, who was part of the scheme and doing... thenelm1 Mar 2023 #17
"Stormy, bring back that sunny day" Prairie_Seagull Mar 2023 #18
He paid her $130,000 to keep quiet. How much did he pay for the trick? nt Hotler Mar 2023 #20
she is a shakedown con artist Skittles Mar 2023 #21
Paid the Playboy model too Johnny2X2X Mar 2023 #22

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
2. Hey, poster, please use names and nouns
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 10:51 AM
Mar 2023

Pronouns are way too vague. We aren’t really sure who the “she” might be.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
4. if you don't honestly know then you haven't been paying any attention
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 10:56 AM
Mar 2023

The post is obviously in reference to Stormy Daniels. I understand some posts require context, but if you are reading a political board then you are "really sure" who the pronouns refer to in this case.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
6. I suspected that it might be Stormy but who can be sure?
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 11:23 AM
Mar 2023

After all, there were a lot of “shes” in Individual One’s past.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
7. Thank you
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 11:53 AM
Mar 2023

As an aside, I think she should have bridled him and ridden him around a few of his golf courses during their pre-presidential romps. The country would have been better off for it.

lindysalsagal

(20,670 posts)
15. The sneaky money-switch is the cover-up that is the serious matter.
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 01:29 PM
Mar 2023

potus should be held to a higher standard, not lower. We have to be able to trust our elected leaders.

It. Is. A. Hugh. Deal. (Old, Bad protest poster reference)

Traildogbob

(8,716 posts)
9. Of course that
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 12:23 PM
Mar 2023

Was a payment to be silent. It would cost a women millions and millions more to have sex with that lump of shit. Ask Melania how much she has made to have sext with that pig, the one time.

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
10. Was it ever revealed, was there a payment up front for the liason, or only later for silence
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 12:47 PM
Mar 2023

TDFG was so great in bed he had to pay her to go away and leave him alone, right?

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
11. I dont know but...
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 12:50 PM
Mar 2023

Given Daniels’ descriptions of Trump, its safe to say something other than mutual attraction motivated her to provide services.

allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts)
19. Believe Cohen said it was a payment for silence. Maybe "affair" is used more casually than it used
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 02:13 PM
Mar 2023

to be. Didn't read Daniels' book, but always thought an affair at least suggested a few hook-ups, not just a one-night stand.

According to Wikipedia:

In a March 25, 2018, interview with 60 Minutes, Daniels said that she and Trump had sex once, and that later she had been threatened in front of her infant daughter and felt pressured to later sign a non-disclosure agreement.[59][60]

May turn out to be an expensive bit of fun for the Orange cretin.

Tree Lady

(11,451 posts)
16. It might have kept a few christians
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 01:34 PM
Mar 2023

from voting for him but from what I heard they believed he asked forgiveness and all was whitewashed.

thenelm1

(852 posts)
17. And don't forget that one person, Michael Cohen, who was part of the scheme and doing...
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 01:34 PM
Mar 2023

bidding of his boss, the said presidential candidate, was convicted and sent to prison already.

Johnny2X2X

(19,038 posts)
22. Paid the Playboy model too
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 11:42 PM
Mar 2023

Not just Stormy.

And those are the two that we know about. Probably many more who were scared into keeping their silence.

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