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Post by Old Badger on Mar 7, 2018 11:37:17 GMT -5
"Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she was paid to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, sued the president Tuesday, asking the court to declare that her nondisclosure agreement before the 2016 election is void because Trump did not sign it." linkTrump forgot to sign the agreement? LOL! That's so Trumpian. I wonder if there are more unsigned papers like that. Maybe there'll be a whole genre of literature to come out of this. Let's call it TrumpPorn. They can hold semester-long classes on it at Liberty University, where professors can explain to their deeply Christian students how the stories comport with Christian values, if you just look at them in the right way. I might even commute down to Lynchburg to audit such a course.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 9, 2018 10:27:33 GMT -5
WH confirms payoff...inadvertently: "Asked about the payment at a White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump denies the allegations and that, in any event, 'this case has already been won in arbitration.' She later added that 'the arbitration was won in the president’s favor.'...What she inconveniently seemed to confirm is that Trump is a party to arbitration proceedings regarding a nondisclosure agreement involving Daniels. Obviously, there would be no such agreement unless there were something Trump wanted to hide. And if Daniels’s silence was worth $130,000, it must have been something Trump really wanted to hide." link
Apparently, Trump is not happy with Sanders for letting that slip, but "come on, give her a break. How is she supposed to keep all the lies straight as they multiply, overlap and at times contradict? She’s good at it, but every once in a while, a little truth is bound to slip out." Exactly! And by filing the lawsuit Daniels was able to append the nondisclosure agreement itself, and expose the backdoor way it was handled: Trump's lawyer "formed a company, Essential Consultants LLC, to make the payment to Daniels. It provides for arbitration in the case of disputes, and it requires Daniels to pay 'David Dennison' [Trump's pseudonym" $1 million per instance if she breaches the contract. It is signed by Daniels, using her legal name, Stephanie Clifford; and by Cohen, for Essential Consultants. The line for 'David Dennison' to sign is indeed left blank." That failure to sign is what Daniels claims allows her to abrogate the agreement. This has some real consequences: "It would appear that Trump may have violated federal campaign law by failing to disclose the payment on his reporting forms...The filings offer a glimpse of how Trump is accustomed to operating — and suggest why special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has reportedly taken an interest in Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen." Yes, because setting up a dummy corporation to mask a campaign finance law violation is, well, illegal. Even if you use a pseudonym.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 14, 2018 22:40:31 GMT -5
"An attorney tied to the Trump Organization has been listed on recent documents in arbitration proceedings preventing porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking publicly about her alleged 2006 affair with Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo report that Jill Martin, a Trump Organization lawyer, is listed on confidential arbitration document as representing Essential Consultants, LLC, which is the Delaware-based limited liability corporation Trump attorney Michael Cohen created to pay Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) $130,000 in hush money ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign. "This is a big deal because it ties a top Trump Organization lawyer directly to the scandal for the first time. Cohen has said that he personally paid Daniels the $130,000 in exchange for her silence, but has denied that the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign had anything to do with it. 'Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,' Cohen said in a statement to the New York Times in February. 'The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.'” linkLOL, so the Trump-Daniels payoff link has been established. Not that there ever was any doubt. No one could take seriously the lie Cohen's been peddling that he took out a six-figure mortgage on his house, set up an LLC in Delaware to hold the money, then paid Daniels form that company just because...well, he's never explained why he'd do such a thing. I just hope he hasn't told that tale to Mueller under oath, because then he'd need his own lawyer--one steeped in federal criminal procedure. Then again, Trump and his associates are not known for their superlative IQs, so who knows? This story is going to get better and better. Already there have been reports of multiple individuals and corporations (presumably publishers) offering to pick up the $1 million tab for Daniels to violate her confidentiality agreement and tell her story. The agreement itself offers a titillating hint by referring to pictures and videos she may possess. Now, seeing a naked Trump getting up to whatever gross sexual practices he indulges (I'm guessing extreme discipline and/or those golden showers we've heard about) is far too icky for me, but I'm sure there's an audience out there just waiting to view it all on the Interwebs, or read about it in the Daniels "as told to" book, possibly serialized in some glossy magazine. Makes a perfect stocking-stuffer for that pervy friend in your life.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 15, 2018 18:17:38 GMT -5
In case you thought I was joking in my anticipation of what Trump's trying to hide, Josh Marshall has this teaser: "In many ways, having sex with a porn star is on-brand for Donald Trump. He spent decades playing up a reputation as a billionaire playboy...But Daniels apparently says something different. I’m told that in her 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper Daniels suggests that Trump, how to say this, likes it when women aren’t nice to him, treat him in perhaps denigrating ways. I think that would be very much off brand for Trump. It also puts in sharper relief why he and his lawyer seem to be fighting so hard to keep Daniels’ story under wraps. It also deepens my curiosity about whether CBS will have the stomach to air that part of the story." link
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 16, 2018 22:28:59 GMT -5
"Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, claims he has the right to seek at least $20 million in damages from porn star Stormy Daniels for allegedly violating a nondisclosure agreement 20 times. A lawyer for Cohen’s limited liability corporation, Essential Consultants, made the claim in papers filed in federal court Friday. Cohen also intends to force the dispute with Daniels, who alleges she was secretly paid to keep quiet about an affair with the president, out of the public eye and back into private arbitration, according to the court filing. In a separate document also filed Friday, a lawyer representing Trump said he intends to join the push to return the proceedings to arbitration, in which all proceedings are confidential." link
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 17, 2018 14:36:10 GMT -5
Stormy Daniels's lawyer says that Trump's lawyer's lawyer has made "physical threats" against her to get her to stop talking to the media. He also says he's been approached by six women who have similar stories, including threats, at least two of whom have NDAs, too, and they are vetting them before deciding whether to represent them. If true, this is pretty explosive.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 20, 2018 16:22:53 GMT -5
This is going to become a barrage, isn't it? "A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships. The model, Karen McDougal, is suing the company that owns The National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of President Trump’s... "Both women, who argue that their contracts are invalid, are trying to get around clauses requiring them to resolve disputes in secretive arbitration proceedings rather than in open court. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs. Ms. McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Mr. Cohen was secretly involved in her talks with A.M.I., and that the media company and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal. She also asserts that after she spoke with The New Yorker last month after it obtained notes she kept on Mr. Trump, A.M.I. warned that 'any further disclosures would breach Karen’s contract' and 'cause considerable monetary damages.'” linkSame lawyer, same payoff, same threats...It's a Trump signature. I wonder how many other women with Trump NDAs will be coming forward, now that the financial incentives are so much higher than the chickenfeed the tight-fisted Trump paid them. And just when does Melania figure out that she no longer needs Trump to keep herself and her parents in the US, and has grounds to vacate their pre-nup, get lots of up-front cash, and also keep Barren?
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 20, 2018 16:32:10 GMT -5
Richard Cohen's trenchant observation: "The saga of the adult-film star and the juvenile president has become a rollicking affair. Each step of the way, Daniels has out-Trumped Trump. She is as shameless as he, a publicity hound who adheres to the secular American religion that, to be famous, even for nothing much, is to be rich...Sometime in the last month or two, it must have occurred to Trump that he is up against himself. Daniels is indefatigable. She appears everywhere. She makes statements, vows, rebuttals and allegations and is scheduled to appear this Sunday on “60 Minutes.” Trump must be shaking his head in admiration... "This, then, is not about Russians with Dostoevsky-ish tongue-twisters for names, or the financial machinations of Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and others. It’s not even about Hillary Clinton or the FBI — which was once the paragon of civic virtue but now, inexplicably and not credibly, is rotten to the core. It’s about a woman up against a bully and it makes other things explicable: This is what Trump did to Andrew McCabe, fired from the FBI hours before he qualified for his pension. Crushed. In pre-Trump days, it might have been possible to destroy Daniels by calling her a slut or whatever. But Trump himself is a slut. He is a liar and a moral harlot who revels in irresponsibility and bad-boy behavior. He has no moral edge over his accuser. We have all been instructed by Trump himself to disregard schoolhouse virtues of honesty, dignity and rectitude. Trump himself travels light... "It was just a little thing, a scratch, that he failed to treat and gangrene set in and it was killing him. They were on safari, in Africa, and their truck had broken down and the rescue plane was never going to make it in time. This is the way Harry died in Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro...It was the little thing that killed Harry on safari. It was the unattended cut, the disabled truck, the tardy rescue plane. As he died, he dreamed of Kilimanjaro, 'unbelievably white in the sun' but the hyena that had been stalking him made 'a strange, human, almost crying sound,' and he knew what the hyena already knew. It is what Trump is learning."
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 20, 2018 16:42:27 GMT -5
I think I'll need to create a pinned thread on women suing Trump soon: A New York judge said Tuesday that a defamation lawsuit against President Trump related to an allegation that he sexually harassed a former “Apprentice” contestant may go forward. Summer Zervos filed the suit last year after Trump said publicly that she and other women making similar claims made them up. Trump sought to block the legal action, but New York Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter, citing court precedent that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, said that 'a sitting president is not immune from being sued in federal court for unofficial acts.'” linkThat was the infamous Paula Jones case, pushed by right-wing lawyers hoping to get Clinton out of office. Alas, the precedent they helped set now is biting one of their own. It's an old Republican problem, actually. When the GOP got hold of Congress after FDR had won four straight presidential elections they pushed through the 22nd Amendment limiting the President to two terms in office. Truman, as sitting President, was exempted. So, the first President prevented from seeking a third term? Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, of course. I remember the discussions in 1960 of how ironic that was, Ike was far and away the strongest candidate the GOP could have put up, and all agreed he'd easily be re-elected. Instead, they wound up with Tricky Dicky, and the rest, as they say, is chaos.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 21, 2018 12:13:31 GMT -5
Just thought it was time to pull this all together and pin it, since the issue won't go away anytime soon.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 22, 2018 14:38:32 GMT -5
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Post by leftylarry on Mar 26, 2018 18:44:49 GMT -5
Trumps whores are a lot sexier than Slick Wille Clinton’s were, that dude would fuck a snake.
I understand Hillary has been living in NYC for years now while Willie is having an affair with a neighbor a few houses down inChappequa, the entire town knows it too.
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Post by buckybasser on Mar 26, 2018 19:20:43 GMT -5
I must disagree Larry. I thought that Monica was super sexy in that black beret. Any Basser evidence would have been found there, rather than on the infamous blue dress. For the old man, why is a Trump Bimbo thread worthy of being pinned and the (much longer) endangered species thread left to flounder in obscurity? >O
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 26, 2018 22:09:50 GMT -5
For the old man, why is a Trump Bimbo thread worthy of being pinned and the (much longer) endangered species thread left to flounder in obscurity? Just a fast-breaking story at the moment. The "endangered species" thread has never moved off the first page, so I'm not sure there's a problem. Ideally, I want to unpin this thread as soon as possible; five already is too many.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 28, 2018 10:22:21 GMT -5
From the WP: Stormy Daniels’s attorney is asking a federal judge in California for permission to depose President Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen about the nondisclosure agreement the porn actress says she signed to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the president. In documents filed early Wednesday morning, Michael Avenatti said he was seeking to depose Trump and Cohen for no more than two hours each to find out whether Trump was aware of the agreement and whether he consented to it...In requesting depositions, Avenatti said he "intends to prove that the Hush Agreement did not have a lawful object or purpose. Rather, the Agreement and the $130,000 payment made pursuant to the Agreement, was for the ‘purpose of influencing’ the 2016 presidential election by silencing Plaintiff from speaking openly and publicly about Mr. Trump just weeks before the 2016 election," he wrote in a 31-page motion. link
Of course, the whole point of getting Trump's deposition is to put him on record under oath. This is how Clinton got into trouble, by denying he'd had "sex" with Monica Lewinsky, then claiming that oral sex was not "sex" as commonly understood (a position most teenage boys gladly would endorse). Because along with the sworn testimony Avenatti's also want to subpoena up to 10 documents relevant to the case. This implies that the has some idea where the body is buried, so to speak. There will be a court hearing, but not until April 30. If anyone thinks this case is going to end soon, they almost certainly are mistaken.
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Post by Old Badger on Mar 29, 2018 13:28:49 GMT -5
The judge in California temporarily denied Daniels's motion to depose Trump and Cohen, saying it was "premature" because the other side says it plans to file a motion to push the case out of the court and into arbitration. Avenetti says he'll refile as soon as they do that. Meanwhile, the judge made clear that the "instant litigation is not the most important matter on the court's docket," (must be some great divorce cases coming up, lol) and cancelled the scheduled April 30 hearing. linkDear Republicans: Keep up; you will be asked about Stormy a lot during the fall campaign, when it likely will be high up in the news. Good luck.
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 5, 2018 16:19:20 GMT -5
President Trump said Thursday that he did not know that his personal attorney paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 days before the presidential election to prevent her from publicly accusing Trump of having an affair. The president said he did not know where his attorney, Michael Cohen, got the money for the payment, and he declined to say if he ever set up a fund for Cohen to cover expenses like that...The reporter then asked: 'Then why did Michael Cohen make it, if there was no truth to her allegations?' 'You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen,' Trump said." linkThis isn't even a clever lie. Basically, he's saying: I did not have sex with that women, did not know my lawyer paid her off, have no idea why he'd do that, and have no plan to repay him. Congratulations Michael Cohen: you've just been pushed under the TrumpBus! As for Trump:
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 6, 2018 9:14:08 GMT -5
Cohen may be under the bus even more than I realized: "First, if Trump is telling the truth and really did not know about the payment — made days before the election and designed to stave off more controversy over Trump sexual conduct — Cohen may have made an illegal campaign donation...Second, Cohen may have run afoul of New York State Bar rules requiring lawyers to inform a client of 'material developments in the matter including settlement or plea offers.' If Trump was left in the dark, Cohen surely has run afoul of that rule. Bar complaints need not be brought by the client, so someone else could seek to sanction Cohen through the state bar." link I was unaware of that second item, but assume Common Cause, which already has filed suit over this, would be happy to pursue such a case. But there's more:"And that brings us to the third, most intriguing question: Did Cohen have general authorization to make settlements with women who had affairs with Trump? If so, how many women were involved? What were the sums paid out? Did any women allege sexual harassment or sexual assault (i.e., unwanted sexual conduct)? Where did the money come from?" Ah, such interesting questions, the kind that could be raised in seeking disclosure from Cohen as this case moves forward. Congrats, Michael!
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 19, 2018 17:16:33 GMT -5
"Former Playboy model Karen McDougal is now free to speak publicly about her alleged affair with President Trump, but the real significance of her legal settlement may be this: The publisher of the National Enquirer is now in the business of profiting from a Trump scandal. The publisher, American Media, previously paid to bury McDougal's story, giving her $150,000 during the 2016 campaign to write fitness columns, pose for covers and — most important — not talk about the relationship she claims to have had a decade earlier with Trump, whom American Media chief executive David Pecker calls a 'personal friend.' McDougal sued last month to get out of her contract, and, under a settlement agreement announced on Wednesday, American Media will receive a 10 percent cut of any profit McDougal makes from reselling the rights to her story within the next year, up to a maximum of $75,000. American Media also plans to feature McDougal on the cover of the September issue of Men's Journal, meaning the company stands to benefit further from her Trump-related fame." linkThis may not be good news for Trump. As one Enquirer staffer's complaint was quoted last year, “We used to go after newsmakers no matter what side they were on. And Trump is a guy who is running for president with a closet full of baggage. He's the ultimate target-rich environment. The Enquirer had a golden opportunity, and they completely looked the other way.” Not only looked the other way, but paid informants to protect Trump. "The biggest danger for Trump might not be that McDougal is now cleared to tell the same story she already has told; it might be that the National Enquirer gets a taste of how marketable Trump gossip could be — and considers publishing more in the future." Oh, I can't wait!
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 20, 2018 22:17:11 GMT -5
"Keith Davidson, the former attorney for two women who were paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald Trump, has been contacted by federal authorities investigating Trump attorney Michael Cohen and is cooperating with them, a spokesman for Davidson confirmed. Davidson was asked to provide 'certain limited electronic information' for the probe led by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, spokesman Dave Wedge said. 'He has done so and will continue to cooperate to the fullest extent possible under the law,' Wedge said in a statement Friday. "Shortly before the 2016 election, Davidson negotiated a confidentiality agreement with Cohen under which porn star Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000. Davidson also represented Karen McDougal, a Playboy centerfold, in the $150,000 agreement she struck in August 2016 with the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., for the rights to her story. AMI never published the story. Both Daniels and McDougal have filed lawsuits to get out of their non-disclosure agreements. Earlier this week, McDougal settled with AMI — whose chief executive, David Pecker, is a friend of Trump — and is no longer bound by her contract with the tabloid publisher." linkOh, dear! Michael Cohen's email exchanges with the lawyer who--coincidentally, no doubt--helped him write those agreements with two of Trump's...uh, paramours now are with federal prosecutors in New York. How long before Cohen is forced to cooperate? One associate was quoted earlier today speculating that he might be willing to do two years for Trump, maybe even four or five; but if he's facing 18-20? No.
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 26, 2018 10:12:03 GMT -5
For months Donny Sr. has claimed that he "knew nothing" about Michael Cohen's dealings with Stormy Daniels, including that $130,000 payoff in return for a NDA. But this morning he decided to talk to his buddies on "Fox & Friends" and suddenly he blurted out the truth: "He represents me like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal." Ooops! linkThe guy is so stupid and so narcissistic that he can't help outing himself, making a classic "statement against interest" (a legal term for saying something that is bad for your own legal position, which allows the inference that it must be true or else you certainly would not have said it). His lawyers must have chocked on their morning coffees, or switched to breakfast Martinis. It's astonishing that he has such little self-control, and I say that after watching him almost daily for three years. And then he threw Cohen under the bus--again: “From what I understand, they’re looking at his businesses...I’m not involved, and I’ve been told I’m not involved.” Forget that pardon, Mikey. You "did nothing wrong" in your representations for Trump, but as for your other business deals, well, you're on your own there, sonny.
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Post by Old Badger on Apr 26, 2018 13:31:01 GMT -5
Apparently, the NY prosecutors already have logged the F&F ramble as evidence with the court. Thanks, Donny-boy.
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Post by Old Badger on May 3, 2018 21:37:09 GMT -5
Michael Avenatti was on Colbert's show Wednesday night and revealed a new piece of evidence: a receipt for $130,000 from a California branch of a New York bank, represented a payment by the LLC created by Cohen to pay Stormy. What's the significance? Well, as Avenatti pointed out, one very interested party is the Attorney-General of California, Xavier Becerra, Since the transaction took place in CA, Becerra could conduct an investigation of Cohen--and possibly bring charges against him--even if Trump grants a federal pardon. Message to Cohen: deal now because Trump can't save you. You can see the exchange starting at the 2:55 mark of the video:
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Post by badgerjon66 on May 13, 2018 8:40:11 GMT -5
Well, it looks like another false attack on the President has failed. What is it now----47 times the leftist media was sure they had destroyed him?
BTW, who has funded this lying smear? Why was the hooker's initial (real) attny replaced by this political hack?
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Post by Old Badger on May 13, 2018 15:15:24 GMT -5
Well, it looks like another false attack on the President has failed. What is it now----47 times the leftist media was sure they had destroyed him? BTW, who has funded this lying smear? Why was the hooker's initial (real) attny replaced by this political hack? Just what universe do you inhabit, anyway? LOL!
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Post by Old Badger on May 16, 2018 13:56:11 GMT -5
"In new financial disclosure documents, President Trump reported reimbursing his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for an expenditure over $100,000 last year — an apparent reference to the $130,000 that Cohen paid to ensure the silence of an adult-film actress who claimed she’d had an affair with Trump. 'In 2016 expenses were incurred by one of Donald J. Trump’s attorneys, Michael Cohen,' Trump reported in a footnote to his official Personal Financial Disclosure report, required of top federal officials. 'Mr. Cohen sought reimbursement of those expenses and Mr. Trump fully reimbursed Mr. Cohen in 2017. The category of value would be $100,001 — $250,000 and the interest rate would be zero.' That statement was couched in a footnote on the 45th page of a 92-page disclosure. Earlier this year, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had not known about Cohen’s payment to Daniels. 'Do you know where he got the money to make that payment?' a reporter asked at the time. 'No,' Trump said. 'I don’t know.'” linkJust correcting yet another clerical error, I guess, lol. Trump is so used to lying that it must have hurt his little fingertips to sign this disclosure form.
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Post by goldenbucky on May 16, 2018 15:37:25 GMT -5
Well, it looks like another false attack on the President has failed. What is it now----47 times the leftist media was sure they had destroyed him? BTW, who has funded this lying smear? Why was the hooker's initial (real) attny replaced by this political hack? Just what universe do you inhabit, anyway? LOL! Not this one OB:
Those who insist on trying to live in Trump's consistently shifting version of reality need to be able to keep up with all his lies.
Here's a brief primer:
1) his first version of events is often the complete opposite of reality 2) he generally accuses others of his own crimes 3) watch what he does, don't listen to what he says 4) everything Trump touches dies
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Post by buckybasser on May 16, 2018 19:45:01 GMT -5
Please do let us thinking people know when President Trump gets a blobby in the White House from an underling intern less than 1/2 his age...
The fact this thread is pinned while endangered species are not is the most ridiculous thing about this board & there are plenty!
See some bias anyone? #MeToo
>O
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Post by Old Badger on May 16, 2018 21:15:05 GMT -5
Please do let us thinking people know when President Trump gets a blobby in the White House from an underling intern less than 1/2 his age... Oh, please!
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Post by goldenbucky on May 16, 2018 21:44:06 GMT -5
Please do let us thinking people know when President Trump gets a blobby in the White House from an underling intern less than 1/2 his age...
...and Clinton got impeached for lying in his attempts to cover that up.
Trump raw-dogged a porn star, lied about it, and made an illegal hush money payment through a straw donor to cover it up.
That's just the window dressing in a mansion of other illegal activities.
What's your point?
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