According to Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's new lawyer, everything that Trump denied about Stormy Daniels actually happened!
Trump had unprotected sex with Daniels while his wife was caring for their infant child. Trump was not only cheating on his wife, he was also cheating on his mistress, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy playmate.
Then Trump's Mr. Fixit, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels hush money just before the election. And then Trump repaid Cohen, in exactly the fashion that I knew he would: through his retainer.
Let's have Giuliani explain this:
“If we had to defend this as not being a campaign contribution - I think we can do that. This was for personal reasons," Giuliani said.Previously, Trump had said that he never paid Cohen any money for this. Now Trump admits he was lying. Trump hasn't admitting banging Daniels yet: Giuliani says she's lying, and that Cohen paid her off not because of the campaign, and not to save the marriage, but to save Trump's reputation.
"The president had been hurt personally, not politically, personally so much and the first lady by some of the false allegations that one more false allegation, six years old - I think he was trying to help the family. For that, the man is being treated like some kind of villain and I think he was just being a good lawyer and a good man," he continued.
"It wasn't for the campaign, it was to save not so much their marriage, as much as their reputation," he said.
When asked why Cohen paid Daniels the money, Giuliani said Cohen made the allegations against Trump go away, saying "he did his job."
“Imagine if that came out of October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton?" Giuliani asked.
"Cohen made it go away," he added. "He did his job."
What a load of crap. On October 7, 2016, the Washington Post published the Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women's pussies. Any positive reputation Trump had was flushed down the toilet: everyone knew he was a serial harasser of women.
As Giuliani himself made abundantly clear, Cohen paid off Daniels to prevent her story from coming up in the last debate. That makes it a campaign expenditure.
At this point, it's clear that pretty much every accusation of impropriety and corruption made against Trump is true. His denials are just holding actions to defer admissions of guilt to another time, to use them as advantageously as possible.
The issue here is not that Trump idiotically banged a porn star without a condom. Everyone knows he's a liar, a cheater, a scumbag and an idiot. No, the news here is that Trump is vulnerable to blackmail.
And according to Giuliani, Trump has a lawyer on retainer whose job description is literally to pay off potential blackmailers.
Cohen was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, for years, to "do his job." How many more of these potential extortionists are out there, and what else are they getting from Trump to keep his secrets?
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