Here's the important bit:
Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for signing over the rights, “in perpetuity,” to a rumor he’d heard about Trump’s sex life — that the president had fathered an illegitimate child with an employee at Trump World Tower, a skyscraper he owns near the United Nations. The contract subjected Sajudin to a $1 million penalty if he disclosed either the rumor or the terms of the deal to anyone.
this keeps getting better
wonder where the kid is
the bastard trump
unfortunately that could still mean donald
Whilst the fact a magazine, on Trump's behalf, tried to buy somebody's silence is indeed a story, I think America's obsession with celebrity culture is distracting people from real issues. It's the same with the Stormy Daniels story. It's mildly important due to how it involves yet more lying from the president and seems to have resulted in his lawyer being raided, but I wish you guys and your media would focus more on stuff like healthcare, etc.
I'm not suggesting that you two in this thread are like this, but I'm just expressing one of the problems I think US politics faces. Don't get me wrong - UK politics is boring as fuck and we have publically funded campaigns with regulations, and such, but I feel that The Democrats suggesting that Stormy Daniels will be a big thrust of their strategy going into the midterms worrying as fuck.
The President of the United States could have potentially fathered an illigitimate love child with who the fuck knows, so I wouldn't really call it a distraction in this case.
Besides, you aren't getting Healthcare ANYTHING with a Republican controlled government, pointless to have a conversation about something that is never going to happen under present circumstances.
It seems ridiculously easy to blackmail Trump for easy money.
Or for destabilizing a rival world power.
someone could probably just randomly call him and say "we know" and then hang up
watch him have a heart attack and suddenly give huge tax breaks to exports from Uruguay or something
He talks big but when push comes to shove he rolls over and capitulates to blackmail immediately. He's a bully to anyone less powerful than him but he's a coward when he's backed against a wall. And he desperately does not want his reputation of being a tough dealmaker to be undermined by the facts that he's stupid and easily manipulated.
It's amazing that Trump is surrounded by so much shit that him allegedly fathering a bastard child to his housekeeper doesn't even register on "things I find interesting or care about" anymore
I think it's worth mentioning that there's another popular conspiracy theory claiming Bill Clinton has an illegitimate child as well, so keep that in mind.
A Song of Storm and Error: President Erect
I would ordinarily agree with you that the American obsession with celebrities is a hinderance in what passed for national dialogue even before Trump became a candidate. However, the Stormy Daniels situation is playing that obsession for maximum effect to damage Trump. If it was some random girl in a small town that Trump visited once for an on-location Apprentice episode or some shit, nobody would care after two days because a more outrageous scandal would emerge from the rusty lardblob that would overshadow it (does anyone remember to be angry about how Andrew McCabe was fired a day before he could retire with benefits less than a month ago?). But this is a !! porn star !! and that pushes headlines and news stories onto the masses and gets their bloody attention.
In an ideal world, the response would be "this is embarrassing, please stop exposing peoples' personal lives and making them international news". There would be a "how dare you, have you no shame" moment to call a misbehaving media to heel. We don't live in that world and mass media is largely centered around the worship of celebrities as being somehow better than normal, even though many aren't actually particularly wealthy compared to the average American and are only photographed/filmed in glitzy and exciting surroundings because they can be marketed to earn money for others.
But let me remind you that Republicans have set the precedent that lying under oath (about having a sexual affair with a woman behind your wife's back) is an impeachable offense because it represents a violation of the trust the American people require of their President.
Trump has not been proven (nor had the opportunity) to lie under oath yet, but he has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the alleged affair while simultaneously somehow claiming to want to enforce an NDA against her that he didn't sign or know about to silence her from talking about a story he says is entirely ficticious. On top of that, he allegedly had the news covered up immediately before the election to prevent it from being made public before the American people electoral college voted for him, and there's mounting evidence that he has had to have multiple bribery payments made to various people to buy their silence over his various indiscretions in recent years, with this thread's story the latest round -- which means that that housekeeper and her kid are out there somewhere and she probably signed an agreement for hush money as well.
It has been established that it is unpresidential to behave in a deceptive and duplicitous manner to cover up inconvenient facts involving marital infidelity, and Trump's actions, if true, betray a highly concerning allergy to inconvenient truths and an impulsive response to bury and silence them. The American people have a strong vested interest for investigating the President's actions to cover up things he doesn't like, because if he's covering up bastards and affairs, what else is he hiding? (We already know the answer is "enough to put him in jail until he dies of old age" at minimum.)
It'd be great if America could stop it with this, but when you have a reality-TV celebrity president, some things are necessary evils.
I totally see what you mean, but this Stormy thing, idk. I'll stand by it. The tools used by the elites to intimidate people and essentially buy their opinion, while not as big a problem as healthcare, or the climate, or infrastructure, is a pretty worthy cause as far as issues within celebrity culture go.
I'll admit there's a petty side to it: watching Daniels be the one to finally silence Trump is just fucking funny. The way porn stars are seen in society is a lot worse than the way Trump probably should be viewed in society. He got 80% of the evangelical vote, running for the supposed party of family values, and in Daniels we have his demons personified, and there isn't a single thing he can say about it.
It's sad that this won't get people more interested in policy, but it's just too much fun for me not to enjoy. Its already evolved into serious shit for Cohen, and I hope it evolves even more.
Yeah, I know what you're saying. I hope it didn't look as though I had anything against either of you two, as you have both been nothing but friendly and good natured,
I can't believe we're living in a reality where the National Enquirer is paying to keep juicy scandals about a President quiet
Actually, this might be the same reality I remember as long as the claim is true.
David J Pecker runs all but two of the US tabloids that get printed. He and Trump are good friends so Pecker will do anything he can to help Trump because it benefits him.
Tabloids even if everyone knows they're bullshit, are effective eye worms. The titles on the cover get read by almost everyone at any grocery store. It leads to a creation of a false narrative, that even if we know is false is still effective at getting into our brains.
It's really weird
"Oh ya well I'm not gonna be held hostage over the piss tape, or the bastard child, or the dead hookers in the trump tower foundation, or the tons of blow I have stashed away in the appartment below my penthouse, or my ties to columbian drug lords or...."
"uh we just wanted to serve you papers for another prostitute payoff...."
Wait, you're saying that the fact that The President could have fathered an illegitimate love child is of national importance?
I was talking about the fact that it would be good to be discussing things like healthcare in the news more, such as how successful universal healthcare systems in Europe are, along with how the American system is both highly expensive and not terribly effective. Reminding people about these things, along with how foreign wars are using up valuable resources, would generally be a better use of news publications' time; that's all I'm saying. Your defeatist attitude exemplifies the sort of thing I'm talking about, and I still honestly think world leaders' love lives are more a topic for satirical news shows like The Daily Show and LWT.
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