Is The Stormy Story More Damaging Than We Thought? - By Josh Marshall

[DonViejo]

By Josh Marshall | March 12, 2018 3:20 pm

We just finished recording this week’s episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast. We had a special guest, Joan Walsh. We talked about the Stormy Daniels’ story among other topics, including the 2016 election. But I wanted to flag one point we discussed in this episode that I’ve learned over recent days. What Daniels told 60 Minutes is more damaging than people may realize.

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. These stories seem to have stirred discord in Trump’s marriage. They’re hard to square with his current role as the darling of conservative evangelicals. But they play to the tough guy, dominant and hyper-masculine image he likes to portray. He’s boasted for years about his purported sexual prowess and the Access Hollywood tape and the subsequent string of accusations of various kinds of sexual misconduct confirmed his role as a sexual predator. 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.

The interview did not run this weekend and it is not clear when it will run. CBS says they want to take their time reporting out Daniels’ claims. That is of course laudable and appropriate. But I’m not sure how they’d report out claims like that. In any case, as I noted Friday, I think we should be very skeptical whether 60 Minutes is really going to broadcast Daniels’ full story. It’s hard to imagine this isn’t playing into the apparent delay.

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[SummerSnow]

1. Pictures, videos, audios? What does she have? lol

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

That explanation makes the most sense to me.

[Freelancer]

3. Would proven infidelity nullify DT's pre-nup with his current wife?

I wonder if that may be part of the reason DT is being more careful with Stormy than with his harassees.

[RandomAccess]

8. Oh, interesting thought

Probably not, tho. It's not as if Trump isn't very well aware of his own procilvities and IMO would never agree to a clause like that. But still -- Clearly there's SOMEthing in there.

[LonePirate]

4. I wonder if she will divulge any drug use. That might raise a few eyebrows.

Also, the frequency of the incident (just a once or several encounters over weeks/months) would also be interesting news for the mulligan giving evangelicals.

[Freelancer]

5. Has anyone considered that DT may have "pimped" Stormy Daniels out?

...Sent her off to the rooms of business prospects with "private messages" from DT?

[vlyons]

6. It is not uncommon for some powerful men

to like and be excited by being subordinate in a sexual encounter. Getting tied up, getting spanked, being privately humiliated, handing over control provides relief from having to be in charge. Trump performing in a kinky subordinate role would not surprise me in the least. I don't care about his sex life. I just care that his vulgarity be exposed as much as possible.

[CincyDem]

7. HaHa -go check out the opening scene of Billions...Season 1, Episode 1.

It's probably a lot more common that anyone without that desire realizes.

[Blue_Adept]

10. Exactly

I wrote just that earlier in the previous thread about this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210346131#post11

[Vinca]

9. If there's a tiny, orange, dick pic it has to get through to the cult followers.