Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels scandal becomes even more disastrous for him
All along we’ve been expecting Donald Trump to be taken down in the end by his treasonous plot with Russia to rig the election, his stupid efforts at illegally obstructing the Russia investigation, or the financial crimes he’s been committing for decades. Now it turns out Trump just might be taken down by an adult film star of all people. The fallout from his affair with Stormy Daniels has just taken a particularly disastrous turn for him, and it has familiar echoes from the past.
By now you’ve surely heard the story of how Trump is facing legal trouble for apparently using campaign funds to pay Daniels to keep quiet. You may have also heard Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen this week make the unbelievable claim that he made the payoff out of his own pocket and that Trump wasn’t involved. Because Cohen has publicly acknowledged the payoff, Daniels now says that their nondisclosure agreement is null and void, so she’s going to tell all. Now it turns out she has far more than just her word against his.
Daniels now claims she kept a dress and that it has Trump’s DNA on it, according to a San Jose Mercury News report via entertainment news site The Blast (link). Yep, that’s right, this is a page ripped straight out of the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. In fact there’s a good chance Daniels thought to keep the dress specifically because of the role that Lewinsky’s dress played in that scandal.
So now, on top of all his other exploding scandals, Donald Trump is going to be stuck dealing with this mess as well. Trump has been caught on tape admitting that he’s sexually assaulted several women, and that frankly should be the bigger story here, not his consensual affair with Daniels. But because of who she is, the media is about to blow this up and hit Trump over the head with it every day going forward.
