The Stormy Daniels interview on 60 Minutes has come and gone. You would think it is big news. When I tuned in my car radio this morning to get the final results of the NCAA quarter finals, there was no sports report. There was only discussion of Stormy Daniels. Ten minutes later when the business news should have aired, you guessed it, no business news -- just more Stormy. But was this really big news?
Let's start with the point that I keep hearing from the mainstream media: Stormy Daniels was threatened with harm if she were to go public with her story. The obvious first issue is whether or not Stormy is telling the truth. Let's see. She's a stripper who says she took well over $100,000 in an agreement to keep quiet. Then she broke the agreement. She's a self-promoter who is milking this situation for all she can. Those are not strong arguments for believing her. After all, with the supposed threat against her, she goes from another woman who says she slept with Donald Trump years ago to a victim of physical threats. That alone makes her story worth a whole lot more. But this is far from the only reason not to believe her. By her story, which is constantly repeated on the news, she was confronted in a parking lot in Las Vegas (where else?) when she was with her small daughter. The man who confronted her did not identify himself, and she did not recognize him. He supposedly threatened her with a cheesy line that sounds like something out of a Hollywood mafia movie. Then he walked away, and she has never seen him again. Except for his supposed threat, there was nothing to tie him to Donald Trump. And Stormy, of course, did not report the threat to the police. So after saying nothing for more than a decade, Stormy conveniently now is ready to come forward with her story on national TV in the middle of her nationwide tour. We have no proof that anything happened, except for her word. How convenient!
There's no way that any sentient being would believe this story. It's just all too obviously contrived. A mystery man with an unreported threat who came from central casting. Really?
Look, I certainly could believe that Donald Trump slept with this woman. We all know, or should know his past. He's no JFK or even a Bill Clinton, but he's surely has had his share of affairs. We all knew that before he got elected. Just ask Billy Bush. But threats and attacks on the women involved? That's a Hillary Clinton move, not a Donald Trump move. Particularly since Stormy has as her lawyer and former Democrat operative who worked for Rahm Emanuel, there's little that let's me see the "he threatened me" meme as anything other than a phony story to bash Trump and make a quick buck at the same time.
Let's start with the point that I keep hearing from the mainstream media: Stormy Daniels was threatened with harm if she were to go public with her story. The obvious first issue is whether or not Stormy is telling the truth. Let's see. She's a stripper who says she took well over $100,000 in an agreement to keep quiet. Then she broke the agreement. She's a self-promoter who is milking this situation for all she can. Those are not strong arguments for believing her. After all, with the supposed threat against her, she goes from another woman who says she slept with Donald Trump years ago to a victim of physical threats. That alone makes her story worth a whole lot more. But this is far from the only reason not to believe her. By her story, which is constantly repeated on the news, she was confronted in a parking lot in Las Vegas (where else?) when she was with her small daughter. The man who confronted her did not identify himself, and she did not recognize him. He supposedly threatened her with a cheesy line that sounds like something out of a Hollywood mafia movie. Then he walked away, and she has never seen him again. Except for his supposed threat, there was nothing to tie him to Donald Trump. And Stormy, of course, did not report the threat to the police. So after saying nothing for more than a decade, Stormy conveniently now is ready to come forward with her story on national TV in the middle of her nationwide tour. We have no proof that anything happened, except for her word. How convenient!
There's no way that any sentient being would believe this story. It's just all too obviously contrived. A mystery man with an unreported threat who came from central casting. Really?
Look, I certainly could believe that Donald Trump slept with this woman. We all know, or should know his past. He's no JFK or even a Bill Clinton, but he's surely has had his share of affairs. We all knew that before he got elected. Just ask Billy Bush. But threats and attacks on the women involved? That's a Hillary Clinton move, not a Donald Trump move. Particularly since Stormy has as her lawyer and former Democrat operative who worked for Rahm Emanuel, there's little that let's me see the "he threatened me" meme as anything other than a phony story to bash Trump and make a quick buck at the same time.
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