March 26, 2018, - 12:01 pm
Stormy Daniels: Is That All There Is? Bill Clinton Innoculated Us Against This Stuff
Last night, like many Americans (though not as many as they thought), I watched the “60 Minutes” interview with porn star Stephanie Clifford a/k/a “Stormy Daniels.” And, when it was over, I had just one thought:
Is that all there is? It was a whole lotta nothin’. Nothing we haven’t heard a gazillion times already. Nothing new. Nothing of note. And frankly nothing even warranted by the the lowbrow vessel 60 Minutes has become.
For anyone who just arrived from outer space and doesn’t know what’s going on, Daniels is the porn star who alleges she slept with Donald Trump–just one time, as we learned last night (and as if I cared how many times). She signed a confidentiality agreement with Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in the waning days of the 2016 Presidential campaign, purportedly for $130,000. Now she wants out of it to tell her “story.” There really isn’t much of a story to tell, actually, based on what I heard last night.
She’s a cheap porn star who shtupped (or got shtupped by) the future President (once) over a decade ago. I’m not sure how this is news because we know there were many cheap whores and sluts with whom Trump slept or allegedly slept. Not sure how this could be earth-shattering to anyone, given that this is a thrice-married billionaire who bragged on video that he could have anyone he wanted. This is, after all, a man who owned beauty pageants, bragged in his books about dating models galore, and cheated on wife number one, Ivana, with wife number two, Marla. That he would cheat on wife number three isn’t Sherlock Holmes level deduction or prediction.
And I say this as someone who voted for Trump twice–once in the primary and once in the general–and was and remain proud about it. I didn’t vote for Trump because he had the personal moral high ground. I voted for him because I knew he’d be waaaaay better than Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t even a question or anything to think twice about. And I hoped–and have been pleasantly surprised beyond my wildest dreams–that he might do one or two conservative things. He’s done many. And I’m very happy. I, like most who voted for him, know what we got. And we already knew this guy couldn’t keep his pants on before the White House. We didn’t care because we wanted a guy who would beat and do better than the other choice we had: Hillary. I’m still convinced he’s the only one who could have beaten her. And he’s the only one on our side of the aisle who did.
Back in the day (when he was a very objectionable liberal), Trump’s behavior might give me pause. But then we had a guy in the Oval Office who was using the desk as cover for Monica and her cigars. The left-dominated mainstream media constantly lectured us that this guy and his DNA on the Gap blue dress could “comparmentalize” his private life from his public life. Because of their glowing coverage of this man during the impeachment–turning him into the First Black President and some sort of civil rights icon–Clinton, despite (or maybe because of) his dalliances, was more popular than ever. Heck, he even turned one of the House Impeachment managers, Joe Scarborough–rumored to have had an affair with a young intern, who later committed suicide in his office–into a liberal who is now sleeping with a Hillary-esque shrew in the form of Mika Bitch-zinski.
Bill Clinton innoculated American against any indignance over this behavior now. He created the “compartmentalized” Presidency and it stuck.
Then, there are the specious claims of Stormy, the porn star “with a heart of gold.” She slept with him to advance her career, he slept with her to satisfy his libido. Neither of these people has anything of value to say on the matter. But I have to laugh when she says she signed the confidentiality agreement because she was worried that her young daughter was now old enough to hear about this on the news and understand it. Um, so she wasn’t bothered that her daughter is then also now old enough to understand that her mother spreads her legs for countless strange men for a living . . . or that her father (Daniels three hubbies were all porn stars) also did the same with strange women for a living? Just asking.
I also have to laugh at the claim that her life was threatened . . . and then she just went on to her Pilates class without a whimper to police or anyone else. She was “shaking” at Pilates. Uh, if someone threatened my life, I think I’ll skip Pilates and go see the Police.
Her claims are as believable as the noises she fakes in her videos.
Here’s what really happened: nobody–including Stormy and her lawyers–thought Trump would win the election. So her story was about to become worthless in the waning days of the election–the time when she signed the deal. She took what she could get and she took her chances. Then, Trump unexpectedly won and, now, he’s President. So, she wants a better deal. Too late. She made a bad bet. And she should live with it.
Trump should probably fire lawyer Michael Cohen, who made tactical error after tactical error and played right into her publicity gambit. Regardless, I’m convinced a jury would acquit Trump of any campaign finance violations (if it even got to trial), just like they did John Edwards, whom I defended at the time. There just isn’t a case there, and it would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. $130,000 for one night is not bad. It probably makes her the world’s highest (belatedly) paid hooker. So there’s that.
Everyone knows the story, and Daniels can still make money–as she has and she is–on her continued sleazy appearance tour across America. There’s nothing to gain by challenging the deal, except keep her name in the news . . . which is exactly what she wants. Cha-ching!
In the end though, last night’s interview was impotent, and ended with a small fizzle. The threatened DVD or CD of which her attention-whore liberal-operative attorney tweeted a picture, hasn’t materialized. And there was no there there. The interview was a big fat nothing about a one-night stand, NOT a relationship.
She may be a porn star, but she clearly can’t deliver a happy ending.
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The media is obsessed with nothingburgers that have an anti-Trump flavor. That’s pretty much the bottom line with the Stormy Daniels story and Mueller’s “investigation” into the “Russsian Collusion” hoax.
As for cheating and our material world, here’s an appropriate saying:
“A man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything. A woman’s loyalty is tested when the man has nothing.”
Ralph Adamo on March 26, 2018 at 1:02 pm