Trump lawyer seeks $20 million damages from Stormy DanielsDoesn't this dipshit realize that there is a process before trial called "discovery" where all parties are deposed and since he claims Trump knew nothing about it, he mostly can't claim attorney client privilege, thus forcing him to admit that he knew Trump was fucking her and paid to keep her quiet. When asked how he knew he would be forced at that point to invoke attorney/client, thereby confirming Trump lied.
^ Agreed! And if it is done in a courtroom setting, I believe it's called perjury which is a criminal offence! "When the priest comes to read me the last rites I take a look through the bars at the last sights Of a world that has gone very wrong for me" - Hallowed Be Thy Name, Iron Maiden, Steve Harris (Sorry FlacFan )
^ It complicates the process, which slows things down, plus it increases Stormy's lawyer fees. Trump has more money than Stormy, so he's hoping he can drag this out until she gives up. If he can drag it out until 2020 (or 2024 if he gets reelected) then they can settle for an undisclosed amount. He is also asking for a change of venue from California to a federal court. No doubt there will be many many more motions filed. This strategy often works, and is often deployed by the wealthy. It may not work for Trump, because there are a lot of very wealthy people who want to bring him down. Stormy can just set up a fund, so people can help her pay her legal bills.
^ Yes, and a lot of lawyers take cases on contingency. Still, Trump supporters include gun nuts, so she has expenses like security. Trump is in a position to motivate resources that could dwarf the value of book contracts, etc. Moreover, some of his supporters include local law enforcement officials, and every time Stormy steps on stage, she opens herself up to arrest for obscenity. Her legal expenses could easily balloon.
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Posted - Mar 17 2018 : 10:46PM
JFK was fucking Marilyn Monroe (and a bunch of other women) and everyone knew it. Bill Clinton got a blowjob from an intern and everyone knew it. So now we find out that Donald Trump fucked a pornstar. Who the fuck cares? This is news because?
Trump cared, else he wouldn't have paid her, through his lawyer, to not talk about it.
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Posted - Mar 18 2018 : 12:04AM
^He's the President of the United States. Of course he doesn't want her talking about. The same way no other Presidents wanted all the women they were screwing to be going around blabbing about it. The still doesn't answer why we should care about it, and why this would be newsworthy.
The other presidents didn't leave a paper trail with a dumb ass lawyer having the women sign confidentiality agreements that were flimsy enough that they're being broken without any real repercussions at the moment. Also, the other presidents didn't possibly use campaign money to try to pay hush money. The fact that he slept with Stormy isn't actually a very big deal. It's everything he's done to try to cover it up that is.
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Posted - Mar 18 2018 : 7:45PM
^If that's true, then prosecute him for the misuse of campaign funds and get it over with. But when I turn on the news, I don't hear about that. All I hear is the latest statement from Stormy Daniels about her affair with Trump, which leads to me changing the channel.
Even with Monica Lewinsky it wasn't about the blowjob, it was about Clinton's deceptive statements. In this case, we aren't dealing with deceptive statements, we're dealing with blackmail payments made within two weeks of the election, and the efforts to hide the blackmail by moving it through multiple corporations and bank accounts. I don't know of any other cases when a modern President paid off someone to be silent. Moreover, he covered up the blackmail payment by accepting a $130,000 favor from his lawyer, and then didn't declare the gift (or the pictures/videos) as assets the campaign held. Even if their cover story (that Michael Cohen was acting on his own) holds, then Cohen likely faces jail time. At this point, Donald Trump's presumed fixer will need to decide whether would rather go to jail or tell the court what he knows about Trump. Setting up a corporation (like Election Consulting LLC) for the express purpose of making an illegal payment is itself a crime. Many people who claim to know Trump's business dealings have said he's doing a lot of money laundering for foreign business interests. Moreover, we know he is susceptible to blackmail. There is no reason to believe that Stormy is the only person who has dirt on him. (In fact, we know that she shared what she knows with four other individuals. It seems hard to imagine that knowing who those people are, Trump's fixer wouldn't have attempted to buy their silence as well. If so, we can multiply the number of criminal acts by four.)
^Absolutely correct. Bill Clinton wasn't impeached for sexual activities. He was impeached for lying while being investigated for the sexual activities. If Trump gets investigated and he lies to legal authorities or engages in other behavior to cover up the scandal, he would be at risk of being impeached, or possibly even removed from office, on similar grounds. Considering Trump and Republicans got a lot of support from the religious right (i.e. the people who claim to care about morality), this scandal could damage his support from voters who aren't fans of adultery. Also, some people were disgusted with Hillary because of her husband's misconduct and/or her sticking with him after the fact. The Trump situation with Stormy Daniels seems to indicate that he's acted in a manner that's at least as bad.
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Posted - Mar 19 2018 : 1:56PM
^^ & ^ Exactly. If Clinton comes out and admits it it right away, he probably becomes a legend. Instead he lied, obstructed and, in my opinion, should have resigned and/or removed from office. I give zero fucks if Trump Nailed Stormy {though that had to have been a hell of a pay day for her}, but all the lying, the diversions, the obstructing, the hush money Sorry Donnie: #TimesUp. If Mueller dosen't get you, Stormy will.
My bad, I forgot about Nixon's Watergate hush money. Of course, Nixon had the good sense to make the payments in cash, but he also tape-recorded the conversations in which the payments were discussed.
The fact that the FBI was basically stopping Trump from doing something he wanted to do suffices. Nobody tells The Donald what to do. Sure, Putin is KGB, and the Russians could have pulled the classic 'dead call girl in your bed' stunt when Trump was in Moscow, but do you really believe Trump's ego would let him just roll over? I don't, especially when he can just yell 'Fake News' and his sheeple will nod their heads in agreement.
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Posted - Mar 20 2018 : 4:24AM
This is a man who did everything possible to not get elected, and was yet still elected. Every investigation against him since he's been in office has turned up nothing thus far. If people think that an affair with a pornstar is going to be the thing that takes him down when it's likely the one issue that people care about the least, then that is proof that you are truly desperately grasping at straws.
The reporter is pretty clear that Trump thought he was "being blackmailed by the FBI, by Comey". So the story being reported was NOT that Trump was accusing the Kremlin of a shakedown. Either way, Trump had been blackmailed by Stormy as recently as October. How Trump's behavior might be rationally understood is another question.
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Posted - Mar 20 2018 : 9:07AM
You don't get it, a few people here seem to not get it. It isn't that he fucked a porn star or that he nailed a playmate of the year. It's the pattern of cover-up, oibstruction and attacks that will get him, the cover up of his behavior is his undoing. Just like Nixon. I am not grasping at anything. There's 94 pages of the deluded demagoguery he's spewed forth here, and that's just since the inauguration. They WH has already confirmed that Trump signed off on false statements made on behalf of Jr on Air Force One. You are the one grasping at straws.
I think the media is missing the story on the attempt to move the case to Federal Court. 1) Trump has now admitted in a legal briefing that he is David Dennison, and that he was a party to the original settlement. 2) He can pardon anyone who might perjure themselves in Federal Court, but he can't pardon violations of state law. Given who Trump is, the fairly routine bickering over venue could be seen as a step in an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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Posted - Mar 20 2018 : 9:24AM
^ Exactly. He admits in that statement that he had the affair, and despite his lawyers protests, obviously knew about the NDA, meaning he lied, several times. Again. It isn't that he fucked a porn star, it's the lengths he si going to to cover it up.
^ I actually think the effort to move the venue to a court in which Trump can offer pardons may be more important than the admission. As I anticipate what the shit-storm might look like, a key question is whether Cohen would stay loyal to Trump if threatened with jail. If this goes to Federal Court, Trump can promise pardons to his co-conspirators, which could change the entire dynamic. In a related development, Trump's been sued for defamation by one of his alleged groping victims. As one of the people Stormy talked to, and as one of the women who accused Trump of misconduct, Jessica Drake sits in the middle of both the Stormy and the pussy-grabbing stories. Some months ago, there was a rumor that Jessica Drake had signed an NDA with Trump about his pussy-grabbing. My guess is the confusion arose because Jessica had signed an NDA about the Stormy affair, but she hadn't signed away her right to describe how she had been treated by Trump.
^ Sorry to go off-topic, but from the first link: "most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies." Wow!
Polygraphs show your physical reactions to what you're saying (heart rate and stuff like that). There are more than a few reasons why this wouldn't be indicative of whether you're lying or not.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: This is a warning shot Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti took to Twitter to claim he has a disc containing evidence substantiating his client's allegations of an affair with FM45.
^ We've all seen Stormy nekkid but do you really, really want to see FM45 nekkid? Remember tiny hands? Maybe a magnifying glass will come with the DVD!
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FlacFan Deactivated User
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Posted - Mar 23 2018 : 11:17PM
I didn't say i wanted to see it but you know damn well it would break the interwebz were it released.
^ No doubt! If it is a sex tape or even pictures, I'm sure some studio will buy it and release it. Stormy used to be a Wicked girl. I wonder if they would have any interest? Edited by - grover on 3/24/2018 10:13:38 AM