For Those Who Were Disappointed in the 60 Minutes Interview

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44. The only reason

……salciousness matters is that it makes a worse media story and public opinion problem for Trump. But on the contrary, the encounter was revealed to not be an affair, not on-going, but a one-time stand, and she was the "aggressor" by telling him to drop his pants. This is how Patriarchal thinking works: She's a fallen woman who came on to him and he, "poor guy", just responded.

The threat story will devolve into a he said-she said draw. The thug will probably never be found.

Liberal pundits this morning are saying that the Campaign Finance watchdog rarely does anything about illegal contributions and at worst Trump's lawyer will be given a fine of 50K or something. You'd think that the NY State Bar would want to disbar him, but that's no big deal in terms of bringing down Trump.

I think it became a kind of smaller story after the interview than it had been before. Clearly Evangelicals and his base don't care at all about him cheating on his wife.

Her two signed statements that none of it happened will be used against her veracity—endlessly.

So, so far, this seems like so much else—a big hullabaloo that probably becomes smoke.

The MacDougal story has more legs I think, because it was an actual on-going affair..