What we need is someone with some expertise, who has the experience and knowledge to tell us whether or not “Stormy Daniels” was actually some sort of porn “star”.
So, Vinny? Whenever you’re ready…
I am not a Vinnie but…
Her Internet Adult Films Database entry Cite Supplement with her pages on Wikipedia and IMDB and she genuinely seems to fit the notion of being a pornstar not just an “everybody in porn is a pornstar.”
Years active as a performer: 2000-2017 (Started around 21 years old) with 277 credits
Years active as a director: 2004-2018 with 91 credits
She’s got a 32 industry award nominations and 10 wins between performing and directing. The AVN, XRCO, and Nightmoves Awards all inducted her into their halls of fame.
She’s got a couple traditional movie credits; ISTR hearing three but IMDB includes adult credits and I am not that motivated. Her first in The 40 Year Old Virgin listed her role as “Porn Star.” ISTR the recent coverage mentioning that she’d been under contract with one of the big name porn producers back when before internet porn sharing undercut the business model that made that a measure of stardom. For some reason searching for Stormy Daniels and contract brings up a whole page of stories about NDAs and Trump at the moment.
She’s genuinely been near the top of her profession, if not one of the absolute biggest names, with success on both sides of the camera. She’s kind of like Ron Howard… if he’d ever filmed “Richie Cunningham is Welcomed to Tuna Town.”** (Based on an actual credit of hers.) She’s had a long and successful run in her chosen profession. It’s a classic story of the American dream. Hard work and determination allowed her to become a big name in her industry. She pulled herself up by her garter belts. It’s the kind of story we should celebrate whether we believe America is already great or want to make it great again.
- Yes, it was a long tortured path just to get to the jokes I wanted to make in the last paragraph.
** Although I just corrected my typo “Richie Cummimgham is Welcomed to Tuna Town” was pretty awesome as typos go.
Would anyone expect Trump to fuck anything but the best adult film performers while his wife is at home with their newborn? Tremendous stars, great adultery.
TPM provided a helpful set of takeaways from the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels. A Few Thoughts on Stormy’s Show - TPM – Talking Points Memo
On additional point: the casting couch was an accepted aspect of American culture up to last summer, which is a shame. To the extent I thought about it at all (very little) I assumed is was something like the Stormy-Trump liaison. She wasn’t attracted to the guy, but she slept with him to get on the Apprentice. When that didn’t pan out, she refused sex. A transaction. Last summer’s revelations exposed my naive non-thinking. Anyway, Stormy shows us what the casting couch looks like under if anything above average scenarios.
277 movies? That reminds me of a line from the movie Borat, “her vagine is like sleeve of wizard”
actually when he said he could get her on the apprentice, his name for his dick is “the apprentice” 
Getting back to the legal issues, Michael Cohen’s lawyer unequivocally states that Cohen never told Trump about either the agreement or the $130,000 payoff.
So if Trump didn’t even know about the agreement, can he still be a party to it? Or does that mean it’s strictly an agreement between Stormy and Cohen?
For purposes of this question, let’s assume Trump hadn’t previously signed a power of attorney giving Cohen the right to sign off on deals like this on Trump’s behalf.
So, an attorney initiates a contractual agreement between his client and a third party, which he does not tell his client about, and for which he pays $130K out of his own pocket. Is there any planet on which this scenario is even microscopically plausible?
And even if it were true, wouldn’t that be the sort of thing that would get an attorney disbarred?
What I wonder is…one of the things Stormy Daniels received as a “material inducement…to enter into [the] agreement” was a promise that “[Donald Trump] warrants and represents that…[Donald Trump] and his counsel will refrain (i) from pursuing any civil action against [Stormy Daniels], and/or (ii) absent a direct inquiry from law enforcement, from disclosing PP’s name to the authorities.”
The agreement made promises on behalf of Donald Trump personally, relating to personal behavior, and the agreement explicitly says that Stormy Daniels was signing because of those promises. If Trump didn’t know about it, can the agreement be valid, even if he did sign a power of attorney? Isn’t there a case that Stormy Daniels did not receive one of the things she was promised in exchange for not disclosing the relationship? Or would Trump’s coincidental compliance be enough?
Good questions! Quite a legally tangled web they’ve got going there, that’s for sure.
And, why did Trump (or, by proxy, his attorney) form an NDA with a woman, and pay her a not-small sum of money, to insist that she not discuss anything that Trump’s spokespeople now insist never happened?
He did not address the affair but today he said he did not know about the hush payment.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels/index.html
So, when he hangs a lawyer out to dry, does he use clothes pins, or just ties him to the line?
Trump can’t keep his mouth shut to save his fucking life. Thanks for addressing it, even in a tangential way. Keep talking.
Yes, there is. The kind of planet on which a powerful figure who Needs to Not Know about Things That It Might Embarrass Them To Know About have trusted underlings with a brief to go out and fix those things without telling the boss things he Needs to Not Know, and an understanding that there will in time be generous compensation, reimbursement of outlays, etc, without any details, vouchers, invoices, etc needing to be provided.
In other words, Trump knew that Cohen could be relied upon to deal with problems like Stormy Daniels. He didn’t know how Cohen [attempted to] deal with the particular problem that was Stormy Daniels. In due course Cohen would request some kind of payment and Trump would pay it without enquiring into details.
Right. Because he pays his debts so reliably.
Well, Cohen may be an idiot for thinking that Trump will pay him.
Or, this may be in a class of debts that Trump does in fact pay. It’s very much in Trump’s interests to have a Cohen who will do the grubby work without complicating matters further by involving Trump in it, and you can’t have such an underling unless they can in fact be confident that they will be reimbursed.
What this requires, of course, is mutual trust. Trump has to trust Cohen to solve problems without involving him, and Cohen has to trust Trump to see him right, financially and otherwise, after the event. And, yeah, I recognise the problem; who in his right mind would enter into a relationship with Trump that depended on mutual trust? So maybe Cohen is not in his right mind.
And possibly the reluctance of most people to enter into such a relationship with Trump explains the fact that Trump had to form such a relationship with Cohen, whose competence in executing his part of the bargain is evidently limited.
But the question I was addressing was not specific to Trump; it was “on what planet is a client/attorney relationship like this even possible?” And the answer is that it’s possible on this planet, because it’s capable of meeting a Need-Not-To-Know that some clients have.
Isn’t Trump still denying that there was an affair? So we are meant to believe that Trump’s lawyer saw him and Stormy in a room together and drew up a detailed non-disclosure agreement where he would pay $130k out of his own pocket to cover up an affair that never happened?
Trump probably doesn’t care whether you believe there was an affair or not. He does care that you believe that he wasn’t instrumental in, or aware of, a payment to Daniels to secure her silence, and it may be slightly easier for you to believe that if you don’t believe that there was an affair.
I’ve got this bridge for sale…