March 16, 2018: The President of the United States Was Using, for Legal Purposes, an Assumed Name

 

3/16/18: Michael Cohen, attorney for Donald J. Trump, files an unprecedented legal brief in federal court. It’s a complicated legal maneuver, meant to keep Stormy Daniels, the porn star quiet; but what makes it interesting is that Cohen must now name his client in the case. That client, heretofore known in court documents only as “David Dennison,” is Donald J. Trump. (See: 3/7/18.) 

The President of the United States is operating, for legal purposes, under a f**king assumed name!

Not the first time Trump has used a fake name.

 

For a time, it looked like gagging the porn star (legally only) had worked. The 2016 election came and went. No one heard a peep from the porn lady. The parties to the original settlement, a tightly written non-disclosure agreement (NDA) included “Peggy Peterson” (Daniels) and “David Dennison.” That agreement stipulated a $1 million penalty any time “Peterson” broke silence. Once the free press started digging it became obvious who “Dennison” was. 

Now Donald/David and Cohen were claiming that Ms. Clifford had repeatedly violated the NDA. 

Cohen said she had accrued $20,000,000 in damages.

 

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MEANWHILE, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a plea from Pennsylvania Republicans to block a new map of congressional districts drawn up by state judges. 

The old map was ruled unconstitutional in February by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. That map had allowed the GOP to capture 13 out of 18 Congressional seats in 2012, even though they received fewer total votes from actual people in the state. 

Twice the president has tweeted about how unfair the new map is. On February 20 he offered this assessment: 

Hope Republicans in the Great State of Pennsylvania challenge the new “pushed” Congressional Map, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Your Original was correct! Don’t let the Dems take elections away from you so that they can raise taxes & waste money!

 

Four days later he was flailing away on his iPhone again: “Democrat judges have totally redrawn election lines in the great State of Pennsylvania. @FoxNews. This is very unfair to Republicans and to our country as a whole. Must be appealed to the United States Supreme Court ASAP!” 

Luckily, there are three co-equal branches of government, and the court turns down the appeal in one sentence: “The application for stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.” Not one member of the highest court in the land agreed with President Trump.

May 22, 2018: Turn Over a Stone in Trumpistan and Criminal Types Scurry Away in the Light

 

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.

A Daily Dose of Trump: A Porn Star Sues the President; Another Witness is Cooperating with Mueller

YOU MUST ADMIT.

It’s never dull in Trumpistan.

3/7: At 5:44 a.m., the Emperor is already up and tweeting. We can assume he spent a restless night and slept alone in his bedroom. In case you missed it, the First Lady cannot be amused today. Stormy Daniels, the porn star paid $130,000 in hush money during the 2016 campaign, is now suing Donald J. Trump. She says the non-disclosure agreement she signed just before the election is actually invalid because Trump (alias: “David Dennison” in the document) did not sign it.

"David Dennison" poses with his porn-star friend.

Meanwhile, Gary Cohn, the Emperor’s top economic advisor in the White House, is resigning. Considered by many to be one of the few “grownups” in the building, Cohn apparently couldn’t stomach Trump’s decision to impose steep tariffs on aluminum and steel.

In more bad news for Trump and his closest circle, Sam Nunberg, who pretty much got the entire Trump campaign off the ground in 2015, has agreed to testify before a Grand Jury on Friday. On Monday, Nunberg, who had been subpoenaed as part of the Mueller investigation was threatening to rip up the subpoena on national television. He wasn’t going to “waste 80 hours of his time” complying with a records request and said Mueller would be crazy to arrest him. On sober second thought he decided he would cooperate. Also, he would soon be entering rehab.

The bad news for Trump & Co.? Mueller is seeking documents and electronic records, from November 1, 2015, till the present, involving Nunberg and:

Stephen K. Bannon

Michael D. Cohen

Rick Gates

Hope Hicks

Corey Lewandowski

Paul Manafort

Carter Page

Keith Schiller

Roger Stone

And…..Donald J. Trump!

You can see why this might bother the Emperor and his team. Gates has already pled guilty.  Manafort is under house arrest, awaiting trial. Hicks just quit her White House post after being grilled for nine hours by Mueller’s investigators. Cohen is in the news for arranging the payoff to the porn star and Schiller has admitted he was “on guard” outside Trump’s hotel room in Moscow the night in 2013 when his boss was offered the warm company of several prostitutes to share his bed.

If you missed that story because all you do is binge on Fox News, and fume about Hillary’s emails, Schiller says nothing illicit occurred. Around 2 a.m. he wandered off to his own room for a snooze.

And, I think we can all agree there is nothing whatsoever in the Emperor’s past that would make you ever think he would stoop so low. Prostitutes! No way. Trump is a man of impeccable morals.

Cough, cough.

Last but not least, George Nader, a Lebanese-American gentleman is also cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. Nader often works as an advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed and the United Arab Emirates. Normally, he travels in rarified circles.

On January 17, however, he was stopped by F.B.I agents after landing at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. They handed Nader a subpoena, relieved him of his electronic devices and questioned him for two hours. This meant he missed his next flight to Mar-a-Lago, where he had hoped to help the Emperor celebrate the first year of his reign.

What did the F.B.I. want to know? And what is Mueller now asking Nader about? One possibility is that Nader funneled money from the U.A.E. into the Trump campaign. That would be flatly illegal.

Nader also attended a meeting in the Seychelles Islands (population: 94,677) in January 2017. If you’re like me, you’re going to have to look the islands up to find out where they are. But Nader found them. So did Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, founder of Blackwater Security, and a man who was then serving as an informal advisor to the Trump transition team. Who else flew to the islands just because it was so convenient to meet there?

Kirill Dmitriev, representing Vladimir Putin!

You can probably guess where this is going. Dmitriev managed a powerful Russian trust fund, sanctioned by President Obama.

According to The New York Times, Nader has since been questioned repeatedly about a variety of meetings, including at least one with Jared Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon at the White House.

Mr. Prince has denied any secret deals might have been involved in this meeting. Oh, no. He just happened to run into Dmitriev and they had a friendly drink.

In the Seychelles.

Pure coincidence!