The National Enquirer isn’t on News of the World level as far as tabloids go. They actually do break actual news every once in awhile. I mean, it’s nothing I would ever take seriously, no matter how plausible the headlines, but it does seem to every once in awhile make an attempt at quasi-news. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot of people who took it seriously.
Sure, people with alzheimer’s and/or brain damage.
Well, perhaps some of the people I work with.
They still are buying stories and not running them, which prevents the stories from being shared in any other, more reputable source. Honestly, I can’t figure out a reason to keep the rights to a story if you think it is fake. You’ve just wasted money. Either make the purchase be contingent upon verification, or run it whether it’s true or not.
I don’t know the details, but if the enquirer spent $X on a story and hid it to help Trump, that is considered a campaign contribution which again, failure to report opens them up to crimes.
Wait, where would they have gotten the tapes? Cohen has access to them, and the Feds now have access to them too, but I can’t see either of them being inclined to share (at least, not yet).
I can only imagine they’ll be used in the court case and released that way, as part of the record, but, really, I’m just marveling at the parallels between this and Watergate.
The usual way, brush passes and late night meetups in parking garages.
And just like Deep Throat brought it all down, we’ve potentially got Stormy Daniels.
Porno!
He’s a generally bellicose guy who’s suddenly talking and acting in a very subdued manner. He’s being polite now because he no longer has the upper hand, and you don’t want to gratuitously offend the people who can put you in the slammer.
There are people that believe DJT and VOTED FOR HIM. Of course they believe the Enquirer is real news.
The only defense they have would be “It’s not our fault people are stupid”
There was a time I believed The Enquirer was real news.
Then I started the first grade.
Wait, what? What are those journalism things they’re talking about?
Stripped of the fancy legal language, pp.11-13 in this filing by the US Attorney for the SDNY says to Cohen, “dude, we know you aren’t a practicing lawyer. You’ve only got one client, and that’s Trump, and that’s more of a business relationship than a legal one. We’ll still use a filter team to make sure the investigative team doesn’t get hold of anything covered by attorney-client privilege, but we know there won’t be much of that to protect.”
Deep Throat was homage - Stormy is the real deal.
10 years from now people selecting pictures for the next edition of a US History book are going to have an interesting decision of which picture of Stormy to use.
Much like which picture of the First Lady. No, not the nudes, but rather if they use any where she is next to Cheetoh (she seldom smiles unless he is looking at her) or one where she is actually happy.
They’ll just include a QR code to her Pornhub page. Assuming either of those things exist in 10 years.
"…White House aides spent hours Thursday trying to talk Donald Trump out of sending associates to break into the Watergate office complex. "
Yeah, there was a reason for that
… it was discovered that Trump’s lawyers would not meet with him individually. In a 1993 filing, Trump’s lawyer testified they had to meet with him in pairs because of his history of lying to them.
So, Cohen had no choice. He had to record his conversations with that guy. But, really, there is no reason for him to leave them exposed. Storing the audio in encrypted archives is the right thing to do if there is the slightest chance of a breach.
:eek::D:D:D
You should buy lottery tickets.
What? What? What’s the third reason? We wanna know! We wanna know! Tell us tell us tell us!!!
(“Third, like everyone else closely associated with the current President of the United States, Cohen is too stupid to pour piss out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel, further belying the notion that Cohen is currently engaged in any significant practice of law.”)