BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76677451 United States 07/20/2018 03:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76776432 United States 07/20/2018 03:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! Thread: ANOTHER TRUMP accuser DISCREDITED! Was supposedly written YEARS AGO, but the particular stationary was not for sale till 2016 THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76776432 United States 07/20/2018 03:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall THREAD OVER! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76776432 THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! Thread: ANOTHER TRUMP accuser DISCREDITED! Was supposedly written YEARS AGO, but the particular stationary was not for sale till 2016 THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! THREAD OVER! How many more of these women will the leftist media parade out, with decades-old stories of affairs with Donald Trump before they start to see a backlash from the American public, who no longer believes a word they publish? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4326928 According to Fox News , the centerpiece of a New Yorker story on Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, is scribbled notes kept by the former Playboy playmate. [link to www.foxnews.com] Readers could easily get the impression, as many journalists have, that McDougal wrote these notes during what she describes as a consensual relationship that began in 2006. But that is not the case. A telltale marking on the entries, reproduced by the magazine, shows that McDougal wrote these pages either during or since the 2016 campaign—relying on memories that were at least a decade old. The New Yorker does not dispute that McDougal’s notes were written many years after the alleged relationship. Instead, the magazine attempted to tie them to McDougal’s eventual deal with the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc. The more recent creation of the notes doesn’t mean that McDougal isn’t telling the truth. The magazine’s view is that the timing has no material impact on her credibility. But the timing of the notes is revealing about how McDougal came to go public, as well as about the role of the National Enquirer. The McDougal passages were written on a notebook marketed by fashion designer Izak Zenou, whose name appears at the bottom of one of the pages. He got into the business of creating office supplies in 2016, and the notebook was not available for sale on Amazon until March 2016. The timing is significant. Farrow writes that “the interactions that McDougal outlines in the document share striking similarities with the stories of other women who claim to have had sexual relationships with Trump, or who have accused him of propositioning them for sex or sexually harassing them.” After the New Yorker story was published last week, a White House spokesperson said: “This is an old story that is just more fake news. The president says he never had a relationship with McDougal.” The New Yorker expanded on what the Wall Street Journal had reported days before Trump’s election: that the Enquirer’s parent company had paid McDougal $150,000 for limited life rights to her story about any romantic or physical relationship with a married man, and never published it. The practice, in the tabloid world, is known as “catch and kill”—buying a story for the purpose of burying it. American Media’s CEO, David Pecker, has acknowledged his friendship with Trump. The New Yorker quotes former two former AMI executives on the record as saying that buying and killing stories was a common practice under Pecker. McDougal and her lawyer met with Dylan Howard, American Media’s chief content officer, to discuss a deal. McDougal told AMI that she had been offered more than $1 million for her story, and also that she was in discussions with ABC News. The Enquirer maintains that it didn’t publish McDougal’s allegations about Trump in 2016 because it couldn’t confirm them, and that she offered no documentation, texts, receipts or corroborating witnesses. She was even told to search her storage for old phones or other evidence. The supermarket tabloid also says she did not offer any handwritten notes, which suggests they hadn’t been written at the time. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76764715 Australia 07/20/2018 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall So can Trump order ALL lawyers to turn over ALL records of their clients so we can get everyones laundry out into the open or is Trump the only American without lawyer/client protection? It is legal to pay someone to shut up about a legal transaction. Most businesses and many celebrities have paid people to keep private matters private. There are a lot of people who might be sorry if it becomes OK to disregard privacy contracts. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 56232949 United States 07/20/2018 06:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall Anyhoo. Not one gives one single fuck about Trump and his sex list. Yes, he's married. He was married to Ivanna when he was fucking Marla. I don't recall hearing he was cheating on Marla, I think he dumped her because she was a vapid bitch. Melania married him knowing he was a cheater. That's how it all works in these rich circles. Very rich older men bag beautiful young wives who are HAPPY to have the old man fucking others rather than climbing on them all the time. She gets the money, the clothes, the parties, the prestige of his name, etc. He gets tail wherever he goes. The whores he screwed are not worthy of discussion. Just a bunch of dirty star fuckers. And it's none of our damn business. We elected him to fix shit, and this will not affect his support one iota. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76614709 Netherlands 07/20/2018 09:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall In WSJ’s initial story from November 2016, then-Trump campaign spokesman Hope Hicks denied all knowledge of AMI’s payment to McDougal to effectively suppress her story shortly before the presidential election — a payment that could constitute an illegal campaign contribution if it was meant to help Trump’s chances of becoming president. “We have no knowledge of any of this,” she told the outlet. |
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HeWhoKnows User ID: 76771344 Federated States of Micronesia 07/20/2018 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall This is called a "tip". Call girls or "escorts", especially the high priced ones, charge an upfront fee of $10,000 just to come to your room or event. When you are done with them, it is customary to "tip" them around $10k and upwards. This is how models and actresses who don't have any gigs make money in-between gigs. This is the secret life and culture of the rich and powerful people. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76614709 Netherlands 07/20/2018 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer secretly audio-recorded him discussing paying off Playboy model Karen McDougall This is called a "tip". Call girls or "escorts", especially the high priced ones, charge an upfront fee of $10,000 just to come to your room or event. When you are done with them, it is customary to "tip" them around $10k and upwards. Quoting: HeWhoKnows 76771344 This is how models and actresses who don't have any gigs make money in-between gigs. This is the secret life and culture of the rich and powerful people. More accurately in this case, this is called “hush money”. |