The Porn Star and the President - Part III

 

The Porn Star and the President – Part III

(A Story of Lying)

 IN PART II, MR. GIULIANI WAS BUSY STICKING BOTH FEET IN HIS MOUTH, AND EVERYBODY SEEMED HEADED FOR JAIL. 

RUDY PICKS UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF:

 

5/7/18: The Rudy Giuliani Traveling Circus makes the talk show rounds. Now he claims the president wants to testify in the Mueller probe. 

However, Rudy insists that Trump shouldn’t have to. If he did, the president would probably invoke the Fifth Amendment. 

(It beats lying – because in court that’s perjury.)

 

No one, least of all Rudy, can say exactly what Trump knew about the payoff to Stormy Daniels, or when he knew what he knew, or answer inquiries about other possible payments. In yet another disastrous interview, Rudy responds to a question by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. Could Lawyer Cohen have made more payments to more women? 

“I have no knowledge of that,” Giuliani winces and blinks. “But I would think if it was necessary, yes.”  

Even Kellyanne Conway, White House aide and glibbest of liars, salary paid by taxpayers, told Jake Tapper on CNN she had no idea if similar payoffs were made to anyone else. For once she dared not risk a definitive “no.” 

“They didn’t cross my desk as campaign manager [in 2016],” she dodged. “And I would also tell you that I’m happy to answer these questions, but I have limited visibility into what Mayor Giuliani is talking about, because, politely, he is the president’s counsel. I am the president's counselor,” she said.

Different liars, different jobs.

 

She insisted that Trump had not been lying when he told reporters that he did not know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. 

“No,” he had said. He did not elaborate. 

Pressed again on why Cohen would have made the payment, Trump had responded: “You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You’ll have to ask Michael.” Only Cohen knew what was going on. Now Conway insisted the president still wasn’t lying.

So, she still wasn’t lying. 

 

The unenviable position of lying to help a liar. 

Conway tap-danced and told Tapper that you had to look at the president’s three recent tweets to understand the point he had been trying to make. “I’m going to relay to you what the president has told me, which is the best I can do. He didn’t know it at the time the payment occurred.” 

Tapper refused to let Conway off the hook.  

He noted that reporters on Air Force One had asked the president, “Did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?” 

He responded, “No. No. What else?” 

The immediate follow up question was, “Do you know where he [Cohen] got the money to make that payment?” 

“No. I don’t know,” Trump replied. 

“That’s present tense,” Tapper pointed out to Conway. “But he did know.” 

Conway was in the unenviable position of lying to help a liar. Giuliani had made her lie for Sunday morning obsolete (see: 5/4-5/18). He had admitted that Trump paid Cohen back over several months – and that he paid him back before he denied knowing about the matter on Air Force One. 

Even Fox News was forced to report this story, because Giuliani had been speaking on Fox News. They just didn’t choose to put 1 + 1 together and tax the brains of loyal viewers.

Rudy, trying to remember if he had already lied about something.

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5/16/18: This is an awful day for President Trump – Banger of Porn Queens. First, he’s required to file paperwork and admit he paid Michael Cohen back in 2017, after his personal lawyer gave $130,000 to Stormy Daniels.

This means, that regarding the Stormy Daniels story:

 

A)    Cohen has been lying for months.

 

B)     Trump has been lying for almost as long.

 

C)    Team Trump is replete with liars of various colors, shapes, and sizes.

 

D)   The president knew members of his team were liars and didn’t correct them because…

 

E)     Birds of a feather.

 

 

The American people might not care about a consensual sexual relationship between Citizen Trump and a porn star in 2006. 

When the President of the United States lies about it, and does so aboard Air Force One, that’s a serious matter.

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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, 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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The Bunny aborted! 

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 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.) 

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. 

Broidy doesn't look like the kind of guy a Playboy Bunny would sleep with.

 

Did the Bunny abort Donald’s love child? 

If Broidy were covering for Trump, if Trump were the actual semen donor in the Bechard affair, all kinds of campaign finance laws would have been pulverized. 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.

 

UPDATE (4/15/24): To be fair, 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 – although we did label this as a “theory” from the start. 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 one final question, regarding Berchard, Broidy and the baby: Why did President Trump go out of his way, in the waning days of his sinking administration, to pardon Mr. Broidy?