I watched the Stormy Daniels interveiw. Wasn't it sort of a

[doc03]

non event like when Geraldo opened Al Capone's secret vault. Didn't seem like much there there to me.

[MontanaMama]

1. With you.

110%. The only thing I thought might be intriguing is that now the window might be open for Stormy to get out of her NDA and if she is successful in that effort, imagine how many women in the Tangeranus’ past will come forward. Open the floodgates! Other than that, it was a boring interview.

[doc03]

3. I thought it was clever how they managed to run a commercial for

Chappaquiddick during the show. Tossed some raw meat to the Rethugs.

[CentralMass]

6. Corporate media scum

[LBM20]

38. SPANKING, threats, hush money, video, and campaign finance laws broken. Not "nothing."

[emulatorloo]

2. The threats, the hush money, the campaign finance violations are not non-events imho

The hush money/campaign finance violation stuff almost got John Edwards thrown in prison not that long ago as one of the interviewees pointed out.

[doc03]

4. True but with Trump the public has been conditioned to pretty much dismiss

that kind of stuff, it is just expected anymore..

[question everything]

5. This is really the only thing

I half listened to that and it appeared that they had sex just one time - hardly a mistress. And then she told a magazine? Why? Who would have been interested? He was just a "celebrity" then..

And... we really don't know whether he knew about the hush money. Edwards got a supporter to pay.

[emulatorloo]

9. Cohen, a supporter, paid, it is the same situation

Illegal campaign contribution

[Cha]

28. Stormy: the president had sex with me while his wife was post-partum and tried to coerce me into..

Link to tweet

No, not nothing

[BlueMTexpat]

32. Excellent points!

Unfortunately, it looks as it the male pundits' version is getting some traction in this DU thread.

[Cha]

33. I know right! Normalizing

pospanky.. this is NOT normal!

BlueMTexpat

[Generic Brad]

43. Clearly there is nothing normal about that behavior

But there is no physical evidence that any of this happened. Nothing was said that would change the mind of a hard core Trumpian. Hell, he was caught dead to rights on the Access Hollywood tape and that galvanized his supporters - the opposite reaction you would expect from a reality based community.

If his followers believe Sandy Hook was a false flag, that President Obama was not a citizen and that Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza shop then they have no problem discounting Stormy Daniels.

[LBM20]

37. And don't forget THE SPANKING! And yes, all these things are not "nothing." LOTS there.

[pnwmom]

7. Yes. So the next question is why was DT making such a huge deal about this?

I think it has something to do with other women who hold NDA's -- women with REAL stories to tell. DT doesn't want them to get the idea that they could come forward without ruining their lives.

For example, a woman named Katie Johnson who had been suing Trump for raping her as a 13 year old -- and withdrew the lawsuit a few days before the election. Did he buy her off, too?

[brush]

13. Seems Cohen and that campaign were busy in the last weeks before the election crossing Ts and...

dotting "I"s. The Daniels NDA was signed on Oct. 28, 2016, the same day of Comey's letter.

Just a coincidence? Not IMO.

[Hekate]

25. The threat the thug made to Stormy in front of her baby chilled my blood, frankly...

If that's what's gone on with his accusers, it goes way beyond hush money.

[pnwmom]

30. Yup. And there have been multiple reports of Cohen and other DT people

making threats like that. It's DT's mobster mentality.

[LiberalBrooke]

41. It is the threats

that is the problem not sex What did he know and when? How many other women have been threatened? Who else will emerge with similar stories?

[blake2012]

8. a president with a lawyer that threatens a porn star to keep quiet--a lot of there there

Geraldo opened a safe to great fanfare with NOTHING.

This was an actual woman who detailed her fling with an actual dude who is now our president. The bullying, threats of violence, etc. are all playing into the narrative of Trump the outlaw who is now obstructing justice on a daily basis.

The interview was one more nice piece in a mosaic that's coming together.

[SunSeeker]

10. It's his M.O. of paying hush moneythat is the story.

Not only is it a blatant campaign finance violation, and his attempts to shut up witnesses dangerous for our democracy, but it shows he will do anything to cover up dirt from his past. You know, like agree to drop sanctions against an enemy of the US. This is quite a piece of corroborating evidence in the Russia probe.

[onetexan]

29. Agree, the cover-up and the intimidation are the there there

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Jacob Riis

[Journeyman]

19. How true. A most perceptive individual on the nature of American society . . .

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. It's cumulative. One more brick in the wall.

[Cha]

31. Good one, DSB.. Mahalo

[Arkansas Granny]

39. Thanks for the reminder. We need to keep hammering.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. Mueller isn't going to bring down Trump. Stormy Isn't going to bring down Trump.

Karen McDougal isn't going to bring down Trump. Summer Zervos isn't going to bring down Trump...


But they help us chip away at that rock. Ultimately the American people will tire of the corrupt circus and bring Trump down.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

12. The suspense was for an audience of one. She's using his playbook

....I say just release the video. Once she gets a book deal, movie deal she can pay penalty, if any. Just do it! Trumpf and his boiler plate nondisclosure form(s)...hilarious! Who the hell does he think he is, a god?

I watched Interview, and only confirmed that the guy in WH is one disgusting dirty old man; podrido, rotten to the core, a person who has no moral authority.

[bullimiami]

14. And Cooper is weak. What a waste.

[RussBLib]

15. I liked the fact that she said she was not attracted to him

Not at all. Her attraction was a possible spot on the Apprentice TV show, or else she would not have given him a second thought.

I bet that kinda stuck in DJT's craw. She wasn't attracted to you at all, you Orange Fool!

[LuvLoogie]

16. I cooked dinner, while my wife read Harry Potter IV to our 10-year-old daughter.

We haven't had a TV since the signal went from analog to digital. Any time I see corporate news I get the heebie geebies. Anderson Cooper ain't all that.

Whatever he and Stormy did, he's done ten times worse since, in full view of all these talking fuckheads.

There are a few good journalists still. But not enough to make me buy a TV and Cable TV service.

[exboyfil]

17. Old Spanky Trump

Every Democratic politician should start referring to him as such.

[moondust]

18. Documenting the sleaze.

One dirty deed at a time. No telling where, when, or how it ends.

[dem in texas]

20. Here is the big deal

Trump is not bombarding Stormy with twitter attacks. He is running scared of her

[njhoneybadger]

22. Really, did you even watch it?

Spanky tRump knows what happened.How can Stormy's lawyer bluff about information he has
on tRump if there is none.

[Kablooie]

23. It was only an event because Trump worked so hard to prevent it.

If he had left her alone and then if she talked and he replied,' yeah, that happened', the story would have disappeared in a day.

[Hekate]

24. Trump* sent a thug to threaten Stormy in front of her baby, & and by extension the baby itself

"Nice little baby you have there; be a shame if anything happened to her mother."

I don't call that "nothing," and I don't think any mother alive would either. At that point she had a choice: to live the rest of her life in fear of ever speaking another word, or to get her own lawyer and tell all.

Stormy is a tough transactional woman, and she seems to have her own integrity. She refuses to be called a victim, and she refuses to be victimized, either.

*That is, Trump or his lawyer sent the thug. But the lawyer would not have done this without tacit permission from his client.

[Raine]

26. That was a real yawner

not that I'm suprised, things that are over hyped usually turn out to be duds.

[John Fante]

27. We're at the point where even democrats are normalizing Trump.

What other politician could survive this? With Trump, it's no big deal, apparently.

[Guilded Lilly]

34. We are seriously in such hideous danger of not just losing our

Mind as a country, but obliterating our soul.

(Just one woman’s opinion follows, usual warning and disclaimer)

We have systematically been pin-prick tortured with his disgusting character and his enablers’ human indecency for so long, we are in danger of becoming walking Novocain zombies.

This wretched male and his relentlessly vile character is ripping our country to shreds and so far, he has been championed by the most drippingly foul supporters and Republican Party in our recent history.

Reality TV mentality is a reeking disease in the nation. It, along with insidious Russian involvement in overtaking our country, is killing us, inch by inch.
We must NOT allow this lying and treachery to be normalized for one second more. We’ve already lost enough flesh thank-you.

This interview was not an indictment or statement about improper or off color sexual behavior though that will undoubtedly be the skeevy take-away (and queue up the diversionary attacks on Clinton and more general attacks on women).

This is an indictment on the lip curling corruption and anti-humanity agenda of the Republican Party, a sneeringly vile, twisted narcissist man, his power obsessed enablers and its acceptance at all the basest levels.
(End of soapbox/rant, one opinion)

Yes, it matters.

Non-event? ..it damned well better not be treated as one or we will be aiding and abetting our further demise.

That is all.

[Sherman A1]

35. What did you expect after a week of hype?

of course it was not going to be much of anything that wasn't already known.

[chelsea0011]

36. She said to this day that she would be able to identify the man who threatened her.

I would think that this is something that could be narrowed down as to who this person is. It probably is someone used for just this type of work. How many people around the trump sphere would be hired/asked to perform this line of work? His long time body guard or attorney would surely know who this is. And this being a crime could be investigated.

[jberryhill]

44. Who would investigate it?

The SOL for assault in Nevada is two years. The alleged incident was seven years ago.

[chelsea0011]

45. 2 yrs.? That's it? Oh well.

[betsuni]

40. Did anyone else picture Stormy and her lawyer, you know ... They're sort of sexy in a similar way.

Am I a perv?

[mulsh]

46. It reminds me of Fitsmas around here. I thin people built up too high expectations. From the

reactions by the White House I'd say the interview was a good strategic use of a relatively gentle push. I'd like to see what's loaded on that CD in the safe.

But maybe I have low expectations after all these years.

[Bayard]

47. The most important thing I took away from this interview

The statement she made last night about how, when Rump would call her and she was in a crowd of people, she would put him on speaker phone? Could those people be corroborating witnesses?