5/22/18: It’s another bad day for Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. A longtime business partner pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with investigators. That partner is Evegeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant (of course), known as the New York City “Taxi King.” Freidman avoids a lengthy jail sentence and is required to hand over $1 million to settle unpaid taxes.
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Shera Bechard on the job. |
IN A RELATED STORY, Paul Campos, a professor at the University of Colorado, floats a theory about Cohen. Campos notes that Trump’s lawyer was involved in three hush money settlements in 2016. Two involved Trump. One was a payment to Stormy Daniels. A second payment went to Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal. The third involved Elliot Broidy, a heavy-hitting GOP fundraiser, who impregnated another Playboy Bunny, Shera Bechard. (See: 4/14/18 and 4/16/18.)
Campos’s theory: Broidy took a fall for…Donald J. Trump!
Campos notes several intriguing details. In all three settlements the women were initially “represented” by a lawyer named Keith Davidson. Davidson has since been accused of conspiring with Cohen to insure all three clients remained quiet. In the Daniels case and the Broidy case, Cohen used nearly identical non-disclosure language. He used the same pseudonyms. For the women: Peggy Petersen. For the men: David Dennison. And the two Petersen/Dennison payoffs were routed through the same L.L.C., Essential Consultants, set up by Cohen during the 2016 campaign.
Broidy took the hit for his sins and paid $1.6 million to
hush up the pregnant Bunny. Soon after, he gained direct access to President
Trump. This led to a private meeting at the White House where a business deal
with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was discussed. The United Arab
Emirates agreed to give Broidy a contract to provide security services worth perhaps $600 million.
Leaked emails between Broidy and George Nader show another interesting connection. Here the Associated Press picks up the story:
Just two days before that
meeting, on November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account
to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group, a California firm. On December 5, REAG
transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time
supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard,
a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an
affair. (Bechard fired Davidson shortly afterward, when she became convinced
that Davidson was actually working in concert with Michael Cohen, Donald
Trump’s personal attorney, to protect Cohen’s client’s interests rather than
hers.) That $200,000 was supposed to be the first of eight quarterly payments
that “David Dennison” agreed to make to Bechard, in order to buy her silence
about an affair and a subsequent abortion. All this was laid out in an NDA
recovered from Michael Cohen’s office when it was raided last month.
Now, being a fact-based blogger, let me say we cannot know where this tale will end. We do know this. Nader is cooperating with Mueller. Nader has been in several meetings with Broidy.
Did the Bunny abort Donald’s love child?
If Broidy was covering for Trump, if Trump were the actual semen donor in the Bechard affair, all kinds of campaign finance laws would have been broken. Broidy’s deal with the UAE might be viewed as a quid pro quo. Trump gets silence from the pregnant Bunny. Broidy gets a contract worth hundreds of millions. Saudi Arabia and the UAE get the kind of U.S. foreign policy they want. To be precise: they want U.S. pressure on Qatar, a neighboring rival.
And as an added “bonus,” the Playboy Bunny would have aborted…Donald J. Trump’s love child!
There may be nothing to this theory; but we already know a Trump Tower doorman, Dino Sajudin, was paid $30,000 to keep quiet about Trump and a housekeeper’s child.
We know Broidy was previously convicted of bribing New York State officials.
We know that the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, has warned that two other women whose stories appear credible may have received large hush money settlements in 2016.
So, we can assume Cohen is worried. And if Cohen is worried
the President of the United States is worried.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (September 2020): Nothing has ever come of this
Broidy-Bunny-Trump Bunny-Baby-story. It could be, for once on this blog, that
we were totally wrong. Generally, save for typos and misspellings of names, and
too many examples of poor sentence-structure, your humble blogger has been on
target in what he says.
It is,
of course, interesting to ponder the question: Why did President Trump go out
of his way, in the waning days of his sinking administration, to pardon Mr. Broidy?
The fat dope on the left is Mr. Broidy, seen here with his wife.
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