Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

There's a media outlet titled Showbizz Daily running a story about another woman, Karen McDougal, a Playboy magazine model Trump was allegedly seeing around the same period [2006/2007] as Stormy Daniels. It's reported that DA Bragg investigated whether Karen McDougal also received hush money to keep quiet during the 2016 election period to avoid Trump losing votes, with two witnesses, who offered information about the McDougal case, giving testimony to the Grand Jury. The McDougal payment story is also in the Wall Street Journal.

It's reported a larger sum of money was paid to Karen than to Stormy, with it being routed through a non-disclosure deal with The National Inquirer owned by a friend of Trump. The Inquirer never printed anything about the alleged affair between Trump and McDougal. The story also mentions the payoff was done around the time Trumps wife gave birth to their son Barron. It's also reported that an investigation was carried out by authorities into the McDougal story in 2018 around the time the Stormy Daniels revelations broke.

Yeah, McDougal got $150,000. NDA doesn't hold if it's got to do with a crime.

Hopefully it'll now be a matter for more and more Republican voters to realise that Trump committed criminal acts in his bids to retain the presidency and accept that [in truth] he did it not for the party but for himself, that his trial for his attempt to corruptly steal the Georgia election should prove to be the nail in the coffin for his 2024 bid. The attempts made to buy the silence of women he had affairs with is the proof that Trump is corrupt from the core out, that loyalty to him is the measure he judges peoples' worth by.

They don't need to look at themselves ; just agree that another candidate has a better chance at winning the presidency.

As for being fooled they are probably as culpable as he is ,just never got the opportunity.

I dislike having to use the word "probably" but where Trump is concerned legally, I use it as he cant be counted as down and out yet. This is his latest legal move and probably is intended to ensure he remains visible to his supporters and stays in their electoral minds. Hope springs eternal etc.

FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has sued the key witness in his criminal case, accusing one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen of “vast reputational harm” for talking publicly about the hush-money payments at the heart of the case. The lawsuit, filed in Miami, offered a preview of arguments that are sure to be featured in Trump’s defence against charges that he falsified internal business records to disguise payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters. The suit accused Cohen of breaking a confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of his employment, violating ethical standards for lawyers and “spreading falsehoods” about Trump “with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends.”

It seeks more than half a billion dollars from Cohen. Trump is not specifically suing Cohen over his grand jury testimony in the criminal case, but he cites it in support of an argument that his ex-lawyer sought to profit from his role through the publication of two books, a podcast series and media appearances.

Cohen’s spokesman, lawyer Lanny Davis, said the lawsuit will not deter Cohen’s cooperation with prosecutors. “Mr Trump appears once again to be using and abusing the judicial system as a form of harassment and intimidation against Michael Cohen,” Davis said. “It appears he is terrified by his looming legal perils and is attempting to send a message to other potential witnesses who are cooperating with prosecutors against him.” JOURNAL.IE.....

The next two paragraphs are included in the Journal.ie report I took all this from and concern historical facts not necessarily directed to Trumps latest law suit against those he does not like or employ. The third sentence from Mr Davis seems to refer to Trumps latest law suit.

The suit is the latest effort by Trump to use the legal system to go after his political enemies and is another example of the former president turning on a once-loyal aide after their relationship imploded.

A judge in Florida sanctioned Trump and one of his lawyers in January, ordering them to pay nearly one million dollars for filing what he said was a bogus lawsuit against Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and others.

Davis predicted this lawsuit would also fail.

Even the attitude on here shifted to it is unimportant a while back when it became obvious he was guilty.

One of Trump's lawyers, Evan Corcoran, has had to recuse himself from acting for Trump in the Mar-A-Lago secret documents case as they lost an appeal court suit to overturn a ruling that Corcoran would have to testify before a Grand Jury hearing into the issue of Trump's possession of the documents at Mar-A-Lago. Corcoran will still be acting as attorney in Trumps other cases.

In other news, Trumps campaign says that he raised $14.4 Million for it in the 1st quarter.

I wouldn't expect much of a change

They dropped out of favour with trump for a while and joined the fake news brigade.

But like the GOP they have to appeal to their base viewers, even though they state that only people lacking in any reasonable intelligence, or worse believe anything some of their hosts say on their network

Pity he's outlasted his character in Succession.

Trump is the likely GOP candidate. Fox will be all over him, money talks and viewership critical.

Worth waiting for US investigative journalists to dig out the reason and other media to release it verbatim, unless Donald rushes to his aid and torpedo's him.

Tucker leaks like hell tbf to journos across the political spectrum so we will know soon enough.

Tucker from all accounts hates Trump so if the dominion lawsuit was the final straw would be hilarious especially as he is on record for saying its nonsense.

No it's Desi Lydic this week she tends to go the old colbert route and satirise the GOP by taking everything to it's most extreme so will be a good one