Sure, feel free to disagree all you want. The lack of love doesn't automatically imply hate. I have nothing to gain by loving my enemies. No thanks. I owe them nothing.
I thought Dotard's supporters were supposed to be bad asses anyway. They been assaulting people every since the man started running for office. A bunch of wanna be tough guys. They need my sympathy for what reason?
Anybody who foolishly thought that the mainstream media was genuine about taking down President Trump instead of them using his presidency as a ratings-grab, should look at this stupid AF Stormy Daniels controversy/scandal. Do y'all actually give a fucc that Trump who has been a famous celeb for decades, cheated on his eastern European mail order bride 3rd Wife (That the public has seen nude) with some no-name pronstar?
That's not what the controversy is about. If Trump paid Stormy Daniels out of his presidential campaign fund to sign a non-disclosure agreement, that's illegal. A similar thing happened to Democratic front runner John Edwards in 2008. Campaign funds have to be used for your campaign, not paying off women to shut up. No one thinks Trump is going to be impeached for trying to hide an affair with a porn star, it's more of a cumulative thing with Trump. The guy is a consummate con man who preys on the ignorant and simple minded, and now the media has finally decided to vet him the way they should have in 2016. Trump and his family are using the WH to make back room deals and promote Trump Inc. That's impeachable by itself, without discussing the Russia collusion angle. If you think character matters for a POTUS, and I dare anyone to say it doesn't after watching Trump in office for almost a year and a half, the Stormy Daniels affair is just another example that Trump is too crass and messy to be living in the WH. What would have happened to BHO if we found out half the shit we're learning about Trump?? Even Dubya couldn't have gotten away with the bullshit Trump is getting a pass on. Trump doesn't understand there are rules you have to follow as POTUS, you can't just function the way you did when you were a NY real estate developer who was willing to make deals with the devil if it put a few more million in his bank account.
This is one of the most tone deaf things I've ever read. Let me be clear I'm not attacking you but do you have any idea how insensitive a statement like this is? Lets replace the term black people with women, would be we expect women to have exceptional compassion for their abusers and those who would hold them back from equity within the society they help built and maintain? How would you suggest someone like us reach out to people who fundamentally believe we are lesser, people who actively construct and support our destruction? We are literally the only demographic in the history of this country and perhaps the world who are expected to forgive and forget all atrocities done to us even when those said atrocities are still occurring. No one would dare fix their mouth to tell Jews to forgive Nazis and figure out equal ground, no one tells the Native Americans to forgive and forget, but hey black people understand why agents of your oppression feel the way they do as they hurt and abuse you or are complicit in those actions. I've said it before and I'll say it again this is a strictly white problem to fix. The majority of white people keep voting in and supporting people who continually vote against your interests. They cut "entitlements" while giving tax breaks to "job creators" who ship and automate jobs while demonizing brown people. Black people do not vote for this kind of thing, in fact we are the demographic that ALWAYS votes for a progressive agenda that benefits EVERYONE. And I completely understand this is definitely not all white people at all but you guys are the ones who are in a position to reach those that we simply can not and will never be able to reach.
What the President does has always been newsworthy. There's literally an entire press corp dedicated to following him. I'm not sure how old you are but back in the 90s Bill Clinton's affairs were covered extensively by the media. Trump isn't being treated any differently than any other President in that regard.
Black people are the only ones expected to forgive and forget because we are the only ones that are both: A.) Matriarchal B.) Practice a western religion No other group has both of those ingredients together. Happy to say neither one of those apply to me.
To be fair, bodhesatva never said Black people should forgive and forget why many White folk are so prejudiced and hostile towards non-Whites. However if Black folk thought and felt the way racist Whites did, this country would be in the middle of a full blown bloody race war. I agree with TDK, racism in America is a White People problem. We don't have anything to do with it.
Either way, black people are the only ones expected to " love our enemies." because no one else does. Its from the same toilet, even if its not the same shit.
Nailed it! They sure as hell wouldn't love us. They don't even love us now even though we haven't done anything too them. They had 500 years to love us and still don't. Now we supposed to show sympathy? Lmmfao. Really? For what reason Bodhestva? Because Jesus said so? I'm gonna need a better reason than that. Flame she's kidding us right?
Trump's lawyer admits he paid a porn star. Legal questions remain. By Eli Watkins, CNN Updated 6:14 PM EST, Wed February 14, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...gal/index.html President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has declared a payment he orchestrated to a porn star to be "lawful," but legal experts say the matter is far from settled. Cohen said in a statement Tuesday evening that he facilitated a $130,000 payment to Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, in 2016. His statement followed a legal complaint from the campaign finance watchdog Common Cause, which called for investigations into whether the payment -- reportedly made to stop Clifford from speaking about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006 -- violated campaign finance law. The statement came as confirmation that the payment had been made, and it added more evidence and scrutiny to the accounts first raised last month in The Wall Street Journal about the alleged affair and payment, which Cohen has denied was linked to an affair. Cohen has said that Trump "vehemently denies" any encounter with Clifford, and Cohen released a statement from Clifford last month denying an affair with Trump. In Tuesday's statement, Cohen said, "In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford. Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone." When asked why he made the payment, Cohen told CNN: "Just because something isn't true doesn't mean that it can't cause you harm or damage. I will always protect Mr. Trump." Campaign Legal Center general counsel Larry Noble, a CNN contributor and former Federal Election Commission general counsel, said one of the top questions now is "Where did the money come from?" "It's not usual for an attorney representing someone to pay out of his own pocket," Noble said. Noble, along with Sunlight Foundation executive director John Wonderlich and University of California, Irvine, law professor Rick Hasen, noted in separate interviews that the statement was carefully worded and left open the possibility that Trump had personally reimbursed Cohen or the source of the funding was a third party. “The biggest point to me is the denial was very specific and leaves open that Donald Trump himself was involved," Wonderlich said. Hasen, meanwhile, said the key revelation from the statement is Cohen admitting he had facilitated the payment, confirming the news reports. But he cautioned, "There are questions about who ultimately made the payment." Campaign finance law requires campaigns to disclose their contributions and limits donors to $2,700 per election. The Common Cause complaint asserts that if the payment to Clifford was done to influence the election, it would be an undisclosed "in-kind" contribution to the campaign, and if not from Trump personally, it would violate not only the disclosure rules but also the donation limit. Hasen said that in addition to who had made the payment, a key point would be demonstrating whether the payment was campaign-related. "It turns on the question of motive," Hasen said. Common Cause maintains that Cohen's statement is an apparent confirmation of him violating campaign finance law because it was an effort to influence the election by keeping Clifford from speaking to the public about the alleged affair, and the organization renewed its calls for the FEC and Justice Department to look into the matter. However, it is unclear what the FEC or Justice Department might do. The FEC commissioners must vote to open an investigation, and given the partisan breakdown of the committee and its recent voting pattern, Noble predicted last month that it would likely opt not to investigate. He said Wednesday that the statement from Cohen could give commissioners who were leaning against investigating "something to latch onto," but he warned it was not a sure thing they would not vote to investigate. Hasen said that while it is "unclear" what the agency might do, "not only is the FEC divided, it is also shorthanded." Click Above Link For Full Story Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels claims she’s free to talk about Trump, after payment admission White House, FOX News February 15th, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxne...ssion.amp.html Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who was paid $130,000 by an attorney for President Trump, is apparently ready to bare all about an alleged tryst with the president after her manager suggested she was released from a non-disclosure agreement. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, made the announcement via her manager after Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted to making the payment. Cohen said the payment was lawful and not a campaign contribution or campaign expenditure “by anyone.” “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” the statement read. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the payment in January, Clifford began talking with ABC News in the fall of 2016 for a story involving an alleged relationship with Trump, but reached a $130,000 deal a month before the election, which prevented her from going public. But now Daniels believes that Cohen’s statement, along with another from Cohen that Daniels is pushing a book proposal, violated a non-disclosure agreement. “Everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story,” manager Gina Rodriguez said. The claim centers around an alleged meeting between the two at a celebrity golfing tournament in Nevada in 2006. Daniels has claimed that they had sex there and then carried on a yearslong platonic relationship. Cohen has said Trump vehemently denies the affair. A recent statement attributed to Daniels also denied the encounter, though she later seemed to challenge whether the statement originated from her. The actress first detailed her account of an alleged extramarital affair with Trump in 2011 in the celebrity website The Dirty, and it was picked up before the 2016 election by The Smoking Gun. In Touch Weekly published a 2011 interview last month in which the actress — whom the magazine said passed a polygraph exam — said the two had sex on one occasion and described subsequent in-person meetings, phone calls and discussions about a possible TV appearance.
Stormy Daniels sues Trump over alleged affair and 'hush' agreement By Sophie Tatum, CNN Updated 11:17 PM EST, Tue March 06, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...uit/index.html A new lawsuit filed by the porn star known as Stormy Daniels claims President Donald Trump never signed a hush agreement regarding an alleged sexual encounter between the two and therefore the agreement is void. According to the legal complaint filed in California state court and tweeted out by her lawyer on Tuesday, Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, signed the document on behalf of the President instead. The porn star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims in the lawsuit to have had an affair with Trump several years prior to his presidency. However, the lawsuit claims that when he was running for office and multiple women were coming forward to share stories of their own alleged encounters with the then-Republican presidential candidate, Cohen intervened in an attempt to keep Clifford from coming forward as well. “Despite Mr. Trump's failure to sign the Hush Agreement, Mr. Cohen proceeded to cause $130,000.00 to be wired to the trust account of Ms. Clifford's attorney. He did so even though there was no legal agreement and thus no written nondisclosure agreement whereby Ms. Clifford was restricted from disclosing the truth about Mr. Trump," the document states. The lawsuit says Cohen has continued his attempts at silencing Clifford -- including as recently as February 27, 2018. “To be clear, the attempts to intimidate Ms. Clifford into silence and 'shut her up' in order to 'protect Mr. Trump' continue unabated," the lawsuit states. "For example, only days ago on or about February 27, 2018, Mr. Trump's attorney Mr. Cohen surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding against Ms. Clifford in Los Angeles. Remarkably, he did so without even providing Ms. Clifford with notice of the proceeding and basic due process." A defense lawyer representing Cohen did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday. NBC News first reported on Clifford's complaint against Trump. Just weeks before the 2016 election, Cohen reportedly created a private LLC to pay off Clifford, The Wall Street Journal reported in January. Last month, Cohen admitted to making a payment to Clifford, writing in a statement: "Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly." The lawsuit says Cohen's February statement was issued "without any consent by Ms. Clifford, thus evidencing Mr. Cohen's apparent position (at least in that context) that no binding agreement was in place." Following initial reports that Cohen had made the payment, he said in a statement that Trump "vehemently denies" any encounter between the two.
Stormy Daniels' attorney says Trump knew about hush money paid to porn star David Jackson, USA TODAY 3 minutes ago https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa.../amp/402455002 WASHINGTON — The attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels said Wednesday that President Trump knew about hush money paid right before the 2016 election to keep her silence about their sexual relationship. “There's no question the president knew about it at the time," attorney Michael Avenatti said on NBC's Today show. Avenatti also questioned claims by Trump attorney Michael Cohen that he paid Daniels from his own account, and suggested the money may have come from Trump himself. “The idea that an attorney would go off on his own, without his client's knowledge and engage in this type of negotiation and enter into this type of agreement, quite honestly I think is ludicrous," Avenatti said. The attorney spoke the morning after Daniels sued Trump in Los Angeles Superior Court, saying a non-disclosure agreement about their "intimate" relationship is invalid because the then-New York businessman never signed it. Daniels at one time denied receiving $130,000 in hush money; her lawyer called that a "false statement" during his NBC interview, and said his client had been forced to sign the non-disclosure agreement. Claiming his client is prepared to return the money, Avenatti said that Cohen, Trump's lawyer, "demanded she sign that statement. And as alleged in the complaint, we believe that it was done through force and intimidation.”
Trump upset with Sanders over Stormy Daniels response By Jim Acosta and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Updated 9:37 AM EST, Thu March 08, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...els/index.html President Donald Trump is upset with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders over her responses Wednesday regarding his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, a source close to the White House tells CNN. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, filed suit against Trump this week alleging he hadn't signed a nondisclosure agreement that would have prevented her from discussing their alleged sexual affair. On Wednesday, Sanders told reporters that the arbitration was won "in the President's favor." The statement is an admission that the nondisclosure agreement exists, and that it directly involves the President. It is the first time the White House has admitted the President was involved in any way with Daniels. “POTUS is very unhappy," the source said. "Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels storyline steroids yesterday." This week's developments are the latest installment in a continuing controversy for the White House involving Daniels, and a distraction from Trump's attempted rollout of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Just weeks before the 2016 election,Trump's legal counsel Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 of his own money, which he admitted to in February. Cohen has said the President "vehemently denies" any sexual encounter between the two.
What We Learned From Porn Star Stormy Daniels’s Lawsuit Against President Trump By Margaret Hartmann @MargHartmann March 7th, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/amp.nymag...nst-trump.html If Stormy Daniels’s 5,000-word In Touch interview about her alleged affair with Donald Trump left you wanting more, you’re in luck. If, on the other hand, you happen to be Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen, you might be wondering if you’re cursed. The adult film star filed a civil suit against the president in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, alleging that since Trump never signed the nondisclosure agreement their lawyers set up weeks before the 2016 election, their “hush agreement” is null and void. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, also alleges that when the story went public in January, Cohen used “intimidation and coercive tactics” to force her to sign a false statement denying that she had an affair with Trump. Following reports that Cohen arranged a payment of $130,000 to Clifford just days before the 2016 election, the lawyer said he paid her out of his own pocket, and wasn’t reimbursed by the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign. Cohen refused to say why he paid Clifford, or whether Trump paid him back through his personal funds. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen put up the money because he couldn’t get in touch with Trump during the final days of the campaign, and he complained to others that he hadn’t been reimbursed. It’s not clear if Clifford would give back the $130,000 if the contract is voided. On Tuesday Clifford’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, tweeted out the full complaint, which includes the “hush agreement” she signed in October 2016. Here’s what we learned: • Clifford stands by the story she told journalists prior to signing the nondisclosure agreement: She began an “intimate relationship” with Trump in the summer of 2006 in Lake Tahoe, and the affair continued into 2007. It included at least one “meeting” with Trump in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. • Clifford started shopping her story to media outlets after the release of the Access Hollywood tape. The suit says that after learning this, Trump and Cohen “aggressively sought to silence Ms. Clifford as part of an effort to avoid her telling the truth, thus helping to ensure he won the presidential election.” Later it notes that Trump had to be aware of what Cohen was doing — if not, the attorney “flagrantly violated his ethical obligations and most basic rules governing his license to practice law.” This framing is relevant to complaints a government watchdog group filed with the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department over the $130,000 payment. If Cohen intended to silence Clifford to aid Trump politically (rather than, say, keeping the affair from Melania Trump), that could violate campaign finance laws. Even if the payment came from Trump, he might have failed to properly disclose it. • As previously reported, Cohen set up Essential Consultants LLC on October 17, 2016, for the sole purpose of paying Clifford. In the hush agreement she was referred to as “Peggy Peterson” and Trump was called “David Dennison.” • Clifford and Cohen signed the contract, but Trump never did. The suit alleges that he “purposely did not sign the agreement so he could later, if need be, publicly disavow any knowledge” of the agreement or Clifford. It may not matter that Trump didn’t sign the contract, but the court could decide the agreement is unenforceable for other reasons, like being wildly unfair. • Clifford alleges that in addition to bullying her into signing a false statement denying the affair in January 2018, a month later Cohen issued a public statement denying the existence of the hush agreement, without her consent. The suit argues that even if the hush agreement was valid without Trump’s signature, Cohen voided it when he made multiple statements to the media. • The suit says Cohen continued pressuring Clifford in recent days by initiating a “bogus arbitration proceeding” against her in L.A., without providing her “with notice of the proceeding and basic due process.” • The hush agreement says Clifford has “confidential information” related to Trump, which includes “information, certain still images and/or text messages.” •The agreement says Clifford alleges that she’s been “damaged” by Trump, including “proximately causing injury to her person and other related claims.” Clifford has said the affair was consensual, and it’s not clear what this refers to. Trump alleges that Clifford harmed him with her threat of “selling, transferring, licensing, publicly disseminating and/or exploiting the Images and/or Property and/or other Confidential Information.” Clifford is supposed to turn over any of Trump’s “tangible property” and “permanently delete any electronic copies that can not be transferred.” • The agreement says that if Clifford violates the agreement, she must pay Trump $1 million for each breach.
Anderson Cooper interviews Stormy Daniels for '60 Minutes' By Brian Stelter March 8, 2018: 6:55 PM ET http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/medi...per/index.html Anderson Cooper has taped an interview with Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels who alleged a sexual relationship with Donald Trump and is now suing the president. The interview will air on the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes," where Cooper is a regular contributor. But the exact air date is unknown. A source involved in the taping said it will air "on a future episode." A "60 Minutes" spokesman declined to comment. Cooper interviewed Clifford's lawyer Michael Avenatti on CNN on Wednesday night. On Thursday afternoon, Avenatti tweeted a picture of himself with Clifford and Cooper. The interview is a big scoop for Cooper and "60 Minutes." "The president and the porn star" has been a top story this week due to allegations that date back to 2006. Daniels has said she had a consensual relationship with Trump that year. UPDATE! Interview Scheduled To Be aired March 25th, 2018
Stormy Daniels says Trump scandal has been good for business By Nick Valencia and Dakin Andone, CNN Updated 1:29 PM EST, Sat March 10, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...iew/index.html Interest in Stephanie Clifford, the porn star known as Stormy Daniels, is at an all-time high, and she's using it to her advantage, she told CNN after a performance Friday at the Solid Gold gentleman's club in Pompano Beach, Florida. Clifford has been in the news since The Wall Street Journal reported in January that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her $130,000 weeks before the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. In her interview with CNN, Clifford wouldn't answer any questions about the lawsuit or comment on Trump or their alleged relationship. She did, however, talk about how all the attention has affected her life. "Now, yes, I'm more in demand," Clifford told CNN. "Like I said in the Rolling Stone interview, if somebody came up to you and said, 'Hey, you know that job that you've been doing forever? How about next week I pay you quadruple,' show me one person who's going to say no." Clifford has been in the adult entertainment business for 17 years, she said. According to her website, she started out as a dancer in Louisiana before moving to Los Angeles to make porn films. Now, she said, she not only acts but writes and directs films as well. "The phone has been blowing up," said Craig Korka, manager of the Solid Gold club. "Interest is volcanic. It's like the perfect storm." Clifford's name dominated headlines this week after she sued Trump, saying a nondisclosure agreement was void because the President never signed it. On Friday, hours before Clifford went out on stage, Cohen told CNN he used funds from his own home equity line of credit to make the payment. And later, an email provided to CNN by Clifford's attorney showed Cohen used his Trump Organization signature in an email. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said he believes it's proof that Cohen was acting in a professional capacity as Trump's attorney in the negotiations. Cohen has never stated the reason for payment. He and the White House have said Trump had no knowledge of the payment, and the White House has said Trump has denied having a relationship with Clifford. While the notoriety has put a bigger spotlight on Clifford's career, she said, the attention also has its downsides. "It's sort of been a double-edged sword where a lot of people are very interested in booking me for dancing and stuff like this," Clifford told CNN, taking away time from films and projects she's supposed to be promoting. What bothers her, she said, is the "flat-out lies" that have been spread about her. "Like that I'm broke," she said. "I'm actually one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business." In 2014, Clifford was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame. She also has appeared in such mainstream box-office hits as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up." But even Clifford admitted she's capitalizing on the moment when interest in her career is at an all-time high. The attention has helped her in the short term, as more people turn out for shows on her "Make America Horny Again" tour (a play on Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again"). "I'm getting more dance bookings. I usually only dance once a month, and now I'm dancing three or four times a month. So that's been really great," she said. CNN Reporter Nick Valencia with Stormy Daniels in Pompano Beach, FL
Watergate Prosecutor: Trump’s Stormy Daniels Cover-Up Proves She Has ‘Serious’ Dirt On Him Sean Colarossi 2 days ago https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pol...er-up.html/amp In an interview on MSNBC’s AM Joy, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said that the president’s silence on the Stormy Daniels controversy speaks volumes about what dirt the adult film star may have on him. “Why is Donald Trump treating Stormy Daniels differently than the 18 other women who brought nonconsensual claims against him?” Wine-Banks pointed out, noting that he hasn’t waged the same negative against Daniels that he often does against other women. The key reason for that? Daniels may have concrete evidence against Trump. Wine-Banks said: I think we have to look at a few other things, which is why is Donald Trump treating Stormy Daniels differently than the 18 other women who brought nonconsensual claims against him? He has not said anything as negative about her and has not attacked her, which suggests to me that she does have something serious in terms of evidence against him. That’s what we should be looking at, as well as remembering that this is hush money. Hush money is part of a coverup. That’s what an obstruction of justice is. That’s what gets presidents in trouble. It was one of the major things that brought down President Nixon, was paying hush money to keep the defendant from telling the truth about who had hired them. I think there’s a lot here to be uncovered yet. Trump’s silence on Stormy Daniels speaks volumes It’s puzzling why Trump has not taken his usual approach to dealing with yet another allegation involving his sex life. But as Wine-Banks noted on Saturday, there is hush money, legal agreements and cover-ups involved now, meaning it clearly rises above the usual he-said-she-said dispute. In other words, Trump can’t hate tweet his way out of this one, and he seems to understand that. As this explosive scandal continues to unfold and finally garner the media attention it has deserved all along, it remains to be seen if – like previous controversies – it will fade into the background, or if the president and his campaign will pay a serious price for what appear to be campaign finance violations. Regardless, one thing is clear: Trump’s behavior surrounding this sex scandal is far different from the others he had endured during his time in politics, and that suggests he knows something bad is coming.
