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UTUSN

(70,725 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:42 AM Jun 2018

ZIEGLER might be a wingnut? but not a conspiracy theorist? Re, BROIDY, abortion pay-off, Qatar

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https://www.mediaite.com/columnists/is-media-ignoring-the-biggest-scandal-in-presidential-history-writer-behind-trump-broidy-theory-explains/

Is Media Ignoring the Biggest Scandal in Presidential History? Writer Behind Trump-Broidy Theory Explains

by John Ziegler

.... Broidy, an older, out-of-shape, and long-married family man, paid former Playboy playmate Shera Bechard $1.6 million to try to cover up a long affair with her that resulted in a pregnancy. When pressed about it after the office of his attorney (Michael Cohen!!!) was raided, he immediately, and for no apparent reason, admitted the affair and the cover-up. His having profited lavishly from lobbying (as an unregistered agent) Trump to negatively change our country’s policy towards Qatar, a previous ally, is seen as a separate and minor scandal which is lost in the massive of swamp that has become the Trump administration.

To almost all of the mainstream news media, there is nothing else to see here and they have not given these stories a second thought. However Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, found this set of facts to be absurd on their face, and wrote a compelling alternative narrative of this situation for New Yorkmagazine back in early May.

In it, Campos theorizes, quite convincingly, that none of the known facts make any sense under the accepted scenario, but that nearly all for them line up perfectly if it was Trump who actually impregnated Bechard and that Broidy, who has previously pled guilty to bribing government officials, took the fall in order to gain leverage on the president. I wrote at the time that I agreed with his general analysis of the situation.

About the only thing missing from this theory (other than ultimate hard proof), was some sort of evidence that Broidy was actually rewarded for his amazing act of loyalty to Trump. Well, it didn’t take long for that to surface in a very big way.

It was soon learned that Broidy’s company got its biggest U.S. government contract ever after pitching the Trump administration, though, importantly, the original deal was made in 2014. Even more suspiciously, Broidy secured huge business with the UAE just after having met with Trump in an effort to get the United States to alter its policy on Qatar, a UAE adversary. ....

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ZIEGLER might be a wingnut? but not a conspiracy theorist? Re, BROIDY, abortion pay-off, Qatar (Original Post) UTUSN Jun 2018 OP
Hmmm, was the hush money paid before or after Broidy's big deal? lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #1
It's new to me, don't know... UTUSN Jun 2018 #2
The story's a bit chaotic, bouncing around in time. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #3
The republicans are an organized criminal mob Achilleaze Jun 2018 #4
I could never figure out why these guys line up to take the fall for Trump. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2018 #5
Plus he may have dirt on them. He is known to employ PIs and known to swear revenge 5 times over. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #6
Another bingo!1 - J.Edgar & Roy COHN playbook. UTUSN Jun 2018 #7

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
5. I could never figure out why these guys line up to take the fall for Trump.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:13 PM
Jun 2018

Of course it’s for leverage.

Fat contracts later are worth all the short term embarrassment.

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