Hush money doesn’t work
An ongoing saga continues to surround former President Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels.
Will it ever end?
Trump may or may not be indicted by the time you read this, but who knows? Who isn’t tired of hearing about an alleged sexual encounter between these two?
While Trump has denied the encounter ever occurred; Daniels previously denied it but now insists that it did. Who is telling the truth? Who should we believe? Is there proof of this alleged “affair” or sexual encounter?
Does anyone have a video of the Trump and Daniels encounter? Apparently, Daniels is big on videos for money, participating in encounters that most of us really do not want to see.
I’m sure some people do, since pornography is an international addictive problem that destroys more lives than we will ever know. Even if it existed, we certainly do not want to see any such video of an encounter between Daniels and Trump.
How do you prove such an event took place? We are back again to “he said,” “she said.”
President Trump has had his feet to the fire because he is alleged to have paid $130,000 to Daniels to keep quiet about the alleged encounter.
The problem is unclear.
Is he alleged to have paid the money out of campaign funds raised for his presidential bid in 2016? Or, is this about being an amount of money beyond the legal campaign donation cap and how could it ever be considered a campaign donation? Does any of it make sense? As much money as Trump has, would he not have just paid her out of his petty cash fund?
If Daniels and Trump had a dispute, then how is it illegal to have settled a dispute? People do it every day.
Trump made millions just from his reality television show “The Apprentice” on NBC. I always figured this is one reason NBC hates Trump so much. He made them a lot of money and the show was still making major money when he quit to run for president. Money and greed color everything.
Why don’t they just produce the check written to Daniels? Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who served time in prison, allegedly gave the money to Daniels and was reimbursed by Trump. Did he write a check from his personal account? How did Trump reimburse Cohen? Did he go to the bank and get a cashier’s check? Just go back and do an audit.
How credible is Cohen? Does Cohen know for sure which account the money came from?
Back in 1974, Jerry Springer, (yes, the TV “reality” show star) resigned from the Cincinnati City Council because he had written checks to two different prostitutes in northern Kentucky.
The controversy took over his life, but he was later re-elected to the city council and even later served as mayor. In one of his commercials that I remember seeing, he said, “I made a mistake. I paid a prostitute with a check.” He actually wrote two checks. One was for $50 and the other was for $25. He would go on to serve as Cincinnati’s mayor from 1977-1978. He admitted to it, but he didn’t pay it from campaign or government funds.
Looks like if Trump could get in trouble for paying for an “encounter,” then Daniels would be in trouble for prostitution. But wait, she didn’t collect money for an alleged encounter with Trump; she got money to be quiet about the encounter with Trump. Is this not blackmail? Are there not any consequences for blackmail?
Apparently, there is more money to be made from being quiet about “encounters” than actually selling oneself for an “encounter.” She did reportedly receive a handsome book royalty check to talk about her life that attorney Michael Avenatti stole. He is now serving time in prison for defrauding clients and tax evasion.
There is probably more that will be said about this alleged “encounter.”
This proves it doesn’t work to pay porn stars hush money because they take the money and still tell everybody.
