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Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model
« on: May 08, 2018, 07:22:52 pm »
Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model
By Paul Campos   Updated on May 8, 2018  2:15 pm
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/theory-playboy-model-had-affair-with-trump-not-broidy.html

On May 2, Rudy Giuliani revealed that the Trump administration has been lying for months about the fact that Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he fronted to buy porn star Stormy Daniels’s silence about her affair with Trump. Until then, Trump had been claiming that he didn’t know about any settlement, and that he hadn’t had a sexual liaison with Daniels. (The official White House line continues to be that Daniels is lying about having sex with Trump, but almost no one believes this.) Giuliani has claimed that Trump gave him the okay last week to contradict several months’ worth of denials, by revealing Trump’s payments to Cohen.

In journalism this is known as getting out in front of a story. After federal law-enforcement officials raided Cohen’s office on April 9, they surely had documentary evidence of these financial transactions, which meant it was inevitable the truth would eventually come out.

We should consider the strong possibility that the same tactic — i.e., shameless, baldfaced lying — may have played a role in the exposure of yet another Trump-related sex scandal. The Wall Street Journal published a story on April 13 revealing the existence of another nondisclosure agreement involving an affair between an adult entertainer and a client of Cohen’s. The NDA employed the pseudonyms David Dennison and Peggy Peterson — the same names used in the Stormy Daniels NDA — and was otherwise very similar to the Trump-Daniels agreement.

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Let me offer an alternative explanation of the affair and the payoff. It is still just a hypothesis, but, I would argue, it fits more comfortably with what we know about the various players than the reported version of events: Donald Trump, not Elliott Broidy, had an affair with Shera Bechard. Bechard hired Keith Davidson, who had negotiated both Playboy playmate Karen McDougal’s deal with the National Enquirer and Stormy Daniels’s NDA with Trump. Davidson called Cohen, and the two of them negotiated a $1.6 million payment to Bechard.

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Re: Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2018, 07:39:03 pm »
That's one tangled web.
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Re: Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2018, 10:45:59 pm »
It’s a stretch, but remember when John Edwards’ campaign aide Andrew Young took the heat for fathering Rielle Hunter’s child?  They stuck with that story for awhile.

Remember, however, that Trump said Daniels wasn’t the type he’d go for, so Bechard is out of the question, too - right?



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I disagree.  Circle gets the square.
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