On January 17, In Touch Weekly published excerpts of a 2011 interview it had obtained with porn star Stormy Daniels. In it, she had bragged of having a 2006 extramarital tryst with Donald Trump.
Since then, the story has provided fodder for magazine writers and comedians—such as late night Late Night TV host Stephen Colbert.
On the eve of President Trump’s attending an economic conference in Davos, Switzerland, Colbert joked: There was a good reason why First Lady Melania Trump wasn’t traveling with him:
“Yes, there were logistical issues. For instance, the weather. She was afraid it was going to be too Stormy.”
Trump and Stormy
Trump and Stormy
When his wife’s away, Trump thinks, “Why worry?
Sex with sluts is kinky.
And they don’t mind I’m really stinky.”
But for Melania, the scandal can’t be a laughing matter.
On January 26, her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, tweeted: “The laundry list of salacious & flat-out false reporting about Mrs. Trump by tabloid publications & TV shows has seeped into ‘main stream media’ reporting. She is focused on her family & role as FLOTUS – not the unrealistic scenarios being peddled daily by the fake news.”
While Trump was in Davos, Melania visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She then flew to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Notably, she didn’t post a photo of herself with Trump to mark his first year as President. Instead, she posted on Twitter a picture of herself grinning while standing next to an unsmiling Marine.
There has been much speculation on social media about whether Melania might divorce Trump—now or later—over his rampant infidelities.
(In his infamous 2005 Access Hollywood exchange with Billy Bush, Trump admitted: “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful–I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.)
Donald Trump, Adrianne Zucker and Billy Bush
What would happen if Melania decided to file for divorce while they still occupied the White House?
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson provides a partial answer.
In 1829, his Secretary of War, John Eaton, married Margaret “Peggy” O’Neill, a former tavern maid with a supposedly lurid past.
In 1828, Margaret’s first husband, John B. Timberlake, a navy sailor, had died unexpectedly. Rumors circulated that he had committed suicide over his wife’s alleged affair with Eaton. (Medical examiners concluded that Timberlake died of pneumonia brought on by pulmonary disease.)
Both Eaton and Margaret denied the affair, claiming to be nothing more than friends. When they married shortly after Timberlake’s death, the ladies of Washington society ostracized the new couple.
Jackson sympathized with his friend, Eaton. Jackson’s late wife Rachel—whom he had unwittingly married before her divorce from her first husband was final—had also been the victim of social gossip when she first came to Washington.
Vice President John C. Calhoun’s wife, Floride, led Washington’s elite in snubbing the Eatons. They refused to pay courtesy calls on the Eatons at their home or receive them as visitors, and denied them invitations to parties and other social events.
Jackson sided with the Eatons. His late wife, Rachel—whom he had unwittingly married before she divorced her first husband—had been mercilessly attacked during Jackson’s 1828 Presidential campaign. Jackson believed these attacks caused Rachel’s death on December 22, 1828, after his election to the Presidency.
For the rest of Jackson’s first term, his opponents used the “Petticoat Affair,” as it was known, to attack the President’s moral judgment and his administration’s policies and appointees.
It finally ended in 1831. Eaton and Secretary of State Martin Van Buren resigned to allow Jackson to install new members to his cabinet and protect his Presidency from further scandal.
Now, fast forward to 2018:
Trump and Stormy
Trump and Stormy
What a couple—she’s got boobs; he’s horny.
Trumpy spanks his wanker
And says “It’s fun; it’s lots of fun.
It’s just like doing my Ivanka.”
If Melania divorced Trump while he is still President, the Peggy Eaton scandal would pale by comparison.
- Washington would divide into two camps—those supporting the President and those supporting the First Lady.
- Reporters would besiege the White House for separate interviews—with Trump and Melania.
- News media would be filled with stories recounting Trump’s extramarital affairs—not just during his current marriage but during his marriages to his ex-wives Ivana and Marla.
- Trump would vent his anger and frustrations on Twitter—as he does whenever he’s thwarted. These would fuel more controversy via sensational news stories.
- His legislative agenda would grind to a complete halt as Republicans were distracted and Democrats took advantage of it.
- Comedians like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert would find themselves in comic heaven, with Trump’s outrageous comments and tweets practically writing their joke routines.
- Trump’s diehard supporters among the Religious Right would be pressed to defend or condemn his multiple adulteries.
- These would distract Republicans from effectively pursuing Trump’s—and their—social and political agenda.
Stay tuned for possibly tumultuous developments.
Pay, pay, pay the porn star’s silence
There’s an election.
You don’t want the world to know that you
Can’t get erection.
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TRUMP: THE ABUSER’S FRIEND: PART ONE (OF TWO)
In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Politics, Social commentary on February 14, 2018 at 2:44 amAs absolute dictator on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump delighted in firing one contestant every week.
As President of the United States, he has delighted in firing such high-ranking government officials as:
But there have been some officials Trump has fought to retain. Among these:
MICHAEL FLYNN had fervently supported Trump during his 2016 campaign for President. He was rewarded with appointment to National Security Adviser on January 20, 2017—the same day Trump became President.
But later in January, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned Trump that Flynn had lied about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak—and that he could be blackmailed by Russian Intelligence.
Michael Flynn at the Republican convention
In December, 2016, Flynn had spoken to Kislyak about removing the sanctions placed on Russia by the outgoing Obama administration. The sanctions had been placed in retaliation for Russia’s efforts to manipulate the 2016 Presidential election.
Instead of firing Flynn, Trump fired Yates.
On February 13, The Washington Post reported these events. Flynn was forced to resign that same day—after only 24 days as National Security Adviser.
STAFF SECRETARY ROB PORTER had the task of vetting all the information that reached Trump’s desk. He resigned February 7 after two of his ex-wives accused him of years of physical and emotional abuse.
Rob Porter
Colbie Holderness, Porter’s first wife, told CNN that the physical abuse began almost immediately after their 2003 wedding. During their honeymoon trip to the Canary Islands, Porter kicked her thigh during a fight.
“The thing he would do most frequently is he would throw me down on a bed and he would just put his body weight on me and he’d be yelling at me but as he was yelling he’d me grinding an elbow or knee into my body to emphasize his anger,” she said. He also repeatedly choked her.
While the couple visited Florence, Italy, in the summer of 2005, Porter punched Holderness in the face.
Jennifer Willoughby, Porter’s second wife, married him in 2009. During their honeymoon in Myrtle Beach, he began calling her “a fucking bitch” because he felt she was not having enough sex with him.
In the spring of 2010, Porter came to the home they had previously shared and punched a glass pane in the front door, cutting his hand.
Willoughby called police, who suggested that she take out a temporary restraining order. She did so in June, 2010.
In December, 2010, according to Willoughby, “we were in a fight and I disengaged from the fight after screaming at each other. I took a shower and Rob followed me fairly shortly after and grabbed me from the shower by my shoulders up close to my neck and pulled me out to continue to yell at me.
“He immediately saw the look of shock and terror on my face and released me and apologized and attempted to make things right.”
They divorced in 2013.
SPEECHWRITER DAVID SORENSEN resigned on February 9. His ex-wife, Jessica Corbett, told the Washington Post that he put out a cigarette on her hand, drove a car over her foot, threw her into a wall and grabbed her by the hair when they were alone on a boat off the Maine coast.
Sorensen denied the allegation in a statement he released to CNN and other news media: “I have never committed violence of any kind against any woman in my entire life. In fact, I was the victim of repeated physical violence during our marriage, not her.”
He claimed he had spoken with an attorney about suing his ex-wife for defamation.
And how did Trump respond to these revelations?
On February 9, he told reporters that Porter’s departure was “very sad” and that “he did a very good job while he was in the White House.”
Donald Trump
Trump did not express any sympathy for the women Porter allegedly abused.
Instead, he focused on Porter’s claim of innocence: “He says he’s innocent and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent but you’ll have to talk to him about that.”
On February 10—the day after Sorensen resigned—Trump took to Twitter to post:
“Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”
As Chris Cillizza, CNN’s editor-at-large wrote in a February 9 opinion column:
“This is a familiar pattern for Trump. When a series of women came out during the 2016 campaign alleging that he has sexually abused them, he flatly denied it — insisting that all of the women were conspiring to hurt him for political reasons.
“When a series of women came forward and said that Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore had pursued physical relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was in his mid 30s, Trump defended his endorsement of Moore, saying: ‘He totally denies it. He says it didn’t happen.'”
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