When it rains it pours.
Since Tuesday, we have the Manafort verdict, the Cohen plea, New York starting an investigation into the Trump foundation, Pecker, Weisselberg, and Andrew Miller granted immunity. This is way to much happening simultaneously at once for it just to be a coincidence.
I wonder if they had all of these held in reserve and were just waiting for the Manafort verdict to trigger it. If so there may be more coming next week. Buckle your seatbelts.
It’s gotten so that I actually look forward to rolling over and checking my phone in the mornings now.
New York has actually been investigating the Trump Foundation since 2016, and sued the Foundation, Trump, and the foundation’s directors (who coincidentally also have the surname Trump) alleging unlawful political conduct, self-dealing, and tax issues. That case is ongoing.
The recent news is that New York is now also investigating the Trump Organization company over accounting issues, in particular how it accounted for its payments to Cohen regarding the hush money deals with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. And probably a lot of other transactions.
Does he get to keep the money?
He probably does get to keep the money, as the agreement does not likely contain a provision calling for him to refund his $30,000 in the event that AMI walks away from the (amended) contract. He also doesn’t have to pay AMI a million dollars for telling the story to anyone else.
Why is a story involving consensual sex between adults worth more than one involving an extramarital child?
And hates dolphins.
This is the first I’ve encountered the term. I’m assuming it refers to paying for a story and for silence, then not publishing the story?
Maybe that’s where Trump gets his “reputation” as a “great negotiator”?
Because the doorman agreed to a lesser amount.
Probably offered them both $10,000 to start and just kept raising it until they said ‘OK’.
There is no Kelly Blue Book for standard hush money payoffs, after all. To many variables - how damaging, how much money do you have, how poor is the recipient, just a nightmare.
If the doorman got $30k, how much is the mom getting?
Exactly. National Enquirer was acting as a black hole for anything unflattering for Trump.
If I understand correctly, until drumpf picked him, Pence was finished. Outside of his own state he was a nobody, and his own state hated him.
This.
I’ll work up a spreadsheet.
More evidence for my theory! Pence just made no sense.
The avalanche of bad-for-Trump news may be courtesy of the Trump-defenders themselves, who’ve been pushing the idea that “sixty days before the election, all news relating to Trump investigations must cease.”
So Mueller and the federal courts are rushing out this stuff now, ahead of the completely-unofficial “deadline.”
I picture the feds saying to the Trumpites as the flow of sewage washes over them, in sarcastic tones, 'happy, now?’
Eh, some of this is a result of other actions. For example, Mr Doorman is obviously a result of Pecker getting immunity - I’m sure part of his deal is to rescind his contracts with others to keep silent. The doorman, either being told this or figuring it out on his own, sells the contract to CNN… but, of course, not the story which he is probably getting bids on as we speak.
And I do think a lot of this is a result of the Cohen plea deal, people like Weisselberg(?) and Pecker getting in front of what they realize is an oncoming express train of pain.
This week, I predict, will be seen as the week when the inner circle knew the game was up.
As I said… I think in this thread… that the issue here isn’t so much that Trump had a bunch of white collar criminals working for him, but that white collar crime is vastly more common than even the most conspiratorially minded person thinks, and if it were policed and prosecuted with the vigor of the local DA going after drug busts in the black side of town, a lot of fortunes would be lost and many, many more would be dramatically reduced.
We’d have to end the drug war in order to have room in our prisons.
No, no, no, $30,000 is the total initially paid by all three travelers. All the doorman got was the $2,000 he pocketed. The travelers each got $1,000 back, and the hotel got $25,000. You need to subtract instead of adding.