Moved to Home Front: Politics and P.6: Seedy Politics because the only reason this woman is getting a hearing, and getting it now, is to blacken President Trump’s name with presumably strait-laced Republican voters after nothing else worked.
[CBSNews] A week and a half before the 2016 election, Donald Trump's personal attorney paid a porn star named Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the Republican candidate for president. Today, that arrangement is well on its way to becoming the most talked-about "hush agreement" in history, with potential legal and political implications for the president. Through his spokesman, Mr. Trump has denied having an affair with Stormy Daniels, and his lawyers are now threatening her with financial ruin, saying she has to pay $1 million dollars every time she violates her agreement to stay silent. But that didn't stop her from coming on 60 Minutes.
"Because people are just saying whatever they wanted to say about me, I was perfectly fine saying nothing at all, but I'm not okay with being made out to be a liar, or people thinking that I did this for money and people are like, "Oh, you're an opportunist. You're taking advantage of this." The payoff violated campaign contribution laws -
What makes the dispute between Stormy Daniels and the president more than a high-profile tabloid scandal is that her silence was purchased eleven days before the presidential election, which may run afoul of campaign finance laws. The president's long-time lawyer Michael Cohen says he used $130,000 of his own money to pay Stormy Daniels. Cohen has said the money was not a campaign contribution. But Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission appointed by President George H.W. Bush, told us he doesn't agree.
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Tell me it isn't so, Mr. Trump. I thought you would at least be better than Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/26/2018 10:32 Comments ||
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Funny how the FEC is only concerned about campaign finance law violations when they're done by Republicans. How about the four year and continuing CBS in-kind donation to Hillary Clinton called 'Madam Secretary'?
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Abu,
Trump is better. Even if her story is true, he didn't rape her; nobody had an abortion; and talking about one woman one time.
The crucial point is the more the liberals talk about this long ago incident, the less they have to talk about what's happening in the economy.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
03/26/2018 11:29 Comments ||
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Nobody cares despite her bringing this up weekly for some time...
Since the story is not gaining traction they move on to Plan B: Insinuate that because of the timing a billionaire might have paid her out of campaign finances instead of out of his own pocket.
Since she's so brave going against the Hush Agreement has she shown any of the documents to the world? Cancelled checks? Any proof?
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So...? I didn't vote for Mother Teresa. The same tired old Strawman Argument that if a Republican isn't a Saint then they are a Hypocrite!!11!!!1!!!
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Pupils were extremely dilated. High on drugs or triggered by the mind of a liar working overtime trying to make the lie believable. Didnt watch the interview, but everyone on Twitzer are talking about and sharing images of her extremely dialated eyes.
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Yes, Frozen. I understand that. The thing I can't understand is how anybody thinks this woman is attractive. Unprotected sex with a whore like her is so risky it's hard for me to understand why anybody would go for it.
And yes, if you look at the pupils, she does appear to be on meds...
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/26/2018 12:23 Comments ||
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Abu - she's fat and past her prime. She looked a lot better as a brunette about six-odd years ago and 30 pounds less. That business does not lend itself to the ladies aging well / gracefully.
And - I have a buddy who lives in Miami and spotted her clubbing a few weeks ago. Let's just say her cries of poverty last week were pure bullshit.
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Abu Uluque, when people were making the dirty mambo with her they couldn't tell you if she had a face or not. That was not foremost in their brain.
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The left/Deepstate has tried to take Trump down so often and in so many ways, it gets to be like the boy who cried wolf one too many times. Too many times occurred long ago and at this point has little meaning. A Stormy Daniels-Trump expose just becomes just more meaningless B.S. from the left on top of a heap of already meaningless B.S. They have tried to do this to every non-Dem candidate.
[Motherboard] The omnibus government spending bill is nominally supposed to be used to, well, authorize the government to spend money. It is one of the few pieces of legislation that must pass every year, otherwise the government shuts down. Because Congress is dysfunctional and rarely votes on any “clean” pieces of legislation, every year the spending bill becomes unwieldy as lawmakers tack on their pet legislation. The thinking is that, even if a piece of legislation doesn’t have enough votes to pass on its own, it can pass in the spending bill, because voting against it would mean voting to shut the government down.
This is how we end up with the CLOUD Act, a bill that never had a hearing, never had its own vote on the floor of Congress, and was never marked up by legislators. It has absolutely nothing to do with government spending, and yet, if President Trump signs the spending bill, it will become the law of the land. This is the same process that allowed Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that was subjected to years worth of online and in-person protests and was highly unpopular. But because few lawmakers are willing to shut down the government over your privacy, these unpopular bills have become laws.
The CLOUD Act is a surveillance bill that allows the US and foreign governments to obtain your online data directly from service providers like Facebook, Google, Slack, etc., without a warrant. The EFF has called it “a new backdoor around the Fourth Amendment.”
It allows the US to obtain data from servers in foreign countries without complying with those countries’ laws, and allows the president to make agreements with foreign nations that allow those countries to grab data stored in the US without a warrant—as long as that data pertains to a non-US individual. As we’ve seen with NSA surveillance in the past, however, our data is so intertwined that it’s impossible to separate the data of non targets from those who are subject to targeted surveillance.
“When foreign police use their power under CLOUD Act executive agreements to collect a foreign target’s data from a U.S. company, they might also collect data belonging to a non-target U.S. person who happens to be communicating with the foreign target,” the EFF wrote.
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