Donald Trump and Michael Cohen in panic mode at Mar-a-Lago over Stormy Daniels interview
For several weeks the Stormy Daniels story has gradually grown uglier for Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen. Daniels and the media have asserted that she had an affair with Trump, and that Cohen paid her off just before election day to keep her quiet. How panicked are Trump and Cohen now that Daniels is appearing on 60 Minutes to put the pieces together for a national audience? There’s only one detail you need to know.
Michael Cohen traveled to Mar-a-Lago this weekend and had dinner with Donald Trump on Saturday night, according to CNN (link). This occurred twenty-four hours before the interview aired, which means that they were already trying to gameplan their response before they even saw what Daniels had to say on 60 Minutes. Of course they know the real story. They know what they did. They know which laws, if any, they broke. The only unknown for them was how much or little of the puzzle Daniels would reveal.
The interview turned out to be a mixed bag. Even though Daniels’ lawyer tweeted a photo of a DVD or CD earlier in the week along with the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words, she declined to answer questions about whether she has photos or videos of the affair. However, she did go into detail about her assertion that Trump sent someone to threaten her physical safety in 2011, while she was with her infant daughter, if she went ahead with her plans to sell her story.
If it can be proven that Trump and/or Cohen sent someone to threaten Daniels’ safety, it’ll be the most dire criminal aspect of the scandal, and thus it’s likely what Donald Trump and Michael Cohen were huddled about on Saturday night. Can they poke holes in her story? Can she prove her story? Perhaps more importantly, can Special Counsel Robert Mueller prove Stormy’s story?
