Showing posts with label non-disclosure agreement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-disclosure agreement. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2022

March 8, 2018: A Fresh Batch of Lies from the White House

 

3/8/18: Another crazy day in Trumpistan: The New York Times reports on possible witness tampering by the president. 

Also: We have fresh news involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star currently trying to sue the Orange Buffoon. 

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If Stormy had proof, she would be sued if she revealed it.

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Perhaps you watched Press Secretary Pinocchio yesterday, as she went through her daily contortions. Her job was to make it sound as if the Buffoon was as innocent, when it comes to Ms. Daniels, as a neophyte in a nunnery. Had Trump ever had an affair with Stormy? Never, Sanders said. Who then paid the $130,000 settlement to her? Trump? No. Why was Stormy paid to begin with? Pinocchio didn’t wish to comment. Did Trump know about the payment? Who would think it! Pinocchio tried to claim the porn star was lying, because the president had just won an “arbitration” case in which his lawyers blocked Daniels from speaking out. 


Either Sanders is lying, 

or the president is letting her lie, and not correcting her.



By the way, court documents, including a settlement agreement, show Daniels could be sued for damages in excess of $1 million if she revealed images, emails or other evidence she might have which would support her claims. 

Evidence! Damn it! (See also: 1/26/18.)

 

So, to recap: Trump didn’t pay to shut up Stormy. His lawyer paid out of pocket. Trump didn’t know about the settlement. Stormy was lying. But if Stormy had proof, she would be sued if she revealed it – even though she couldn’t because the affair never happened. Finally, Trump knew all about the “arbitration” case, even though he had no idea what he was suing Daniels to stop her from talking about. (See: 4/26/18.) 

Really, with Trump in the White House, never a dull day passes. Did you know a friend of the president, David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer, allegedly paid another $150,000 for a story Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Bunny, had written about an affair with Trump? 

Pecker’s decision to pay, but bury the story to help his pussy-grabbing pal, also came during the lead up to the 2016 election. 

That might also turn out to be illegal. (See: 12/13/18.)

 

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SWITCHING TOPICS, Reince Priebus, Donald McGahn, and their lawyers have been concerned enough about Trump’s approaches to them, since both are potential witnesses in the Russian investigation, to report questionable contacts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. 

Priebus’s contact seems fairly benign. 

McGahn’s encounter is more problematic and occurred this past January – after he had already given sworn testimony – and after The New York Times ran an article about Trump’s attempt to fire Mueller in June 2017. 

Based on talks with people who had been briefed on both meetings, the Times reported yesterday: 

After the article was published, the White House staff secretary, Rob Porter, told Mr. McGahn that the president wanted him to release a statement saying that the story was not true, the people said.

 

Mr. Porter, who resigned last month amid a domestic abuse scandal, told Mr. McGahn the president had suggested he “might get rid” of Mr. McGahn if he chose not to challenge the article, the people briefed on the conversation said.

 

Mr. McGahn did not publicly deny the article, and the president later confronted him in the Oval Office in front of White House chief of staff, John F. Kelley, according to the people.

 

The president said he had never ordered Mr. McGahn to fire the special counsel. Mr. McGahn replied that the president was wrong and that he had in fact asked Mr. McGahn in June [emphasis added] to call the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to tell him that the special counsel had a series of conflicts of interest that disqualified him for overseeing the investigation and that he had to be dismissed.

 

Or to put it plainly, if McGahn is correct, then Trump had asked him to lie about what happened last summer. 

In legal circles that sounds just like attempted witness tampering. 

In fact, it sounds like witness tampering if you deliver mail, pick up garbage or teach middle school. Because it is.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

April 19, 2018: Trump and the Playboy Bunnies

 

4/19/18: Today a Playboy Bunny escapes from a non-disclosure agreement (allegedly involving illegal backdoor dealings by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen) brokered with the National Enquirer. 

A lot of different Bunnies figure in the story of this administration. So pay attention. This Bunny is Karen McDougal. She claims she carried on a ten-month affair with Trump in 2006. Now, in court, McDougal has won the right to talk about her story, and, if possible, make as much money as she can. 

(It appears the National Enquirer and its lawyers caved, because if they kept fighting, Cohen and others, possibly Donald J. Trump, might have been forced to give depositions.) 

Okay, don’t get the Bunnies mixed up. We are not talking about the Bunny impregnated by sleazebag Republican fund raiser and Trump pal, Elliott Broidy. (See: 4/14/18 and 4/16/18.) 

Nor do we mean the Bunny trainee who went on to become a federal judge (more on her in a moment). 

We mean the latest Bunny to tell her tale.



Judge Kimba Wood, back in the day.


 

Let’s be honest and just say: This is Trumpistan, where anything is possible. Of course, there’s another Playboy Bunny in the news! This time, we’re talking about Barbara Moore, Miss December 1992, who says she had an affair with Trump in 1993. And can I be the first, right here, to say, “Well, thank god, at least the First Lady wasn’t in the picture in those days.” 

So…Trump wasn’t cheating on any wife. 

Then again, he was engaged to Marla Maples at the time, who would soon become his second wife, and Maples was already pregnant with their child, a baby they would later name Tiffany. 

If you would like to read all about what Moore calls a “steamy” affair you can click the link (above) and see what Moore told the British tabloid, the Daily Mail. She has all kinds of pictures from visits to Mar-a-Lago. It appears she took pictures of every room in the house, and stuck her head in the broom closet and opened the dresser drawers and the medicine cabinets to have a peek. She has photos of herself with the cook, in a bikini by the pool, ascending the steps, and one of the younger Big Orange Buffoon, flexing his Buffoon muscles. 

Moore says she came forward now because her name appeared in one of the legal documents filed in Karen McDougal’s case. 

Believe it or not, another Bunny was also outed in the documents; but she’s not talking yet.

 

For the president, I suppose you could say there’s good news and bad news in her story. First the good: Moore says Trump was a great lover and a gentleman. She even believes he’s a great president. 

(I think we can safely assume Trump was not attracted to Moore because of her impressive intellect.) 

The bad news – proven once again – is that Trump is a serial liar. 

Moore has few regrets about her affair; but she did admit she had no idea there was already another woman in his life. “But at the time I didn’t know he was with someone else, let alone engaged to Marla Maples and it was only recently I learned she was pregnant at the time.” 

This had “shocked” her, she said. 

The DailyMail.com reached out to the White House for comment. “A source familiar with the matter said the president said these are more false accusations.” 

That meant you had to add Moore to the incredible list of people who for no reason whatever tell lies about Trump. That list would include nearly two dozen women who have accused him of sexual improprieties, a couple of thousand students at Trump University who claim they were scammed, scores of undocumented Polish workers who insist they were cheated out of wages, and pretty much every person at the top of the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. 

Do you know what the motto of the F.B.I. is? It’s worth considering, for purposes of comparison: “Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity.”

 

If you’d care to read even more about the sexual escapades of our current president, you can go to the article and indulge. Moore goes into detail about how they met, how they flirted and how excited she was to meet the famous businessman in the flesh. 

In all the flesh. 

 

“I thought that we were dating and I was special.” 

“I was intimate with him the first night. Yes,” she says. 

And it was really…I felt special. I felt like he was very passionate with me and we both felt a chemistry. I was surprised he was older, I’d never been with an older man before, but he was good, a really good lover. He was kissing my neck, being really attentive. And you know, the sex was normal, he didn’t ask me to do anything weird at all.

 

That, at least, is a relief. 

“I felt like it was love-making, not just a one-night stand,” Moore continued. “And I didn’t feel like I was a piece of meat or anything. I just felt really admired and adored. He was very loving.” 

The next morning, she was embarrassed to “do the walk of shame back to her room in the sparkly gold dress she was wearing from the night before.”

Never fear, Ms. Moore. Donald is a gentleman – at least in terms of how he treats whatever woman he is boinking at the time. He “gave me an overcoat and called a security guard up to his suite. I felt like, wow, this guy really is nice. He’s a gentleman. He was a complete gentleman the whole time.” 

Moore was invited to Mar-a-Lago. Trump played golf part of the time and she watched, and they rode around in a golf cart and had sex. (Not in the golf cart, I don’t mean.) “I would make him laugh. And I remember him taking a lot of pictures of me. The whole thing was a whirlwind, a fantasy come true,” Moore says today. 

Did we mention Trump was already engaged and the woman he was going to marry was carrying his child???? 

Moore does have a lot of pictures, and the Daily Mail notes that these pictures still have the date stamps, for example, “April 25, 1993,” in lower right corners. 

After her dreamland visit to Mar-a-Lago, Moore and Trump regularly spoke over the phone. Moore says she’d regularly call him and came to be on first name terms with his two personal assistants, Rhona and Norma. (Rhona Graff was Trump’s executive assistant. Norma Infante Foerderer was his long-time personal assistant.) In an old phone book Moore dug out of her attic an entry under “T” shows Donald Trump’s phone numbers entered in pencil.

 

“I definitely felt like our relationship was getting stronger. And, and that’s when he invited me to New York to the Trump Tower and I just thought that, you know, we were an item. I thought that we were dating and I was special.”

 

She flew to New York and hung out in his penthouse and had sex. She came back to the city again in the summer, this time for a photo shoot. Another Playmate told her she should call her “boyfriend.” Moore did and Trump invited both young women over. Trump said he was tired after a long flight and didn’t want to go out (and we assume be seen and reported to Marla). 

Moore picks up the story once more: 

We had a couple of glasses of champagne and Donald was laying on his back, on his bed with his arms up and we were just sitting on the corner of his bed talking and chatting. Then he goes “come here” and I just started to hug him and we started kissing and my friend was still there. We just went at it and it was like she just didn’t exist.

 

At this point, you may want to stop reading or get a wastebasket in case your gag reflex acts up. As “things turned steamy,” the Daily Mail reports, “the friend retreated but only as far as a chair in the corner of the room. She sat and watched as Moore and the billionaire had sex. Moore smiles at the naughty moment.” 

That’s probably all you need to know about Trump, the gentleman. There was “giggling and it was playful,” Moore insists. It didn’t bother her that the other young woman was watching “because we were such good friends.” 

She hadn’t expected to have sex with a witness, but she was “really young and it’s just what happened.” 

Then a key detail, as related by the Daily Mail: “Throughout the illicit affair Moore says it never once occurred to her that Trump might be engaged to another woman. And not for a second did Moore think Trump was two-timing her with another woman, let alone engaged to someone.” 

Even when her aunt living in New Jersey, who was working in New York as a fit model, passed comment that she thought Trump was dating someone called Marla, Moore ignored it.

 

“I suppose I trusted him because we talked almost every day, but my aunt was right. I never ever thought that he was seeing anybody else that didn’t even cross my mind.

 

I was very young and I just thought this is my guy right now.”

 

Their “relationship” fizzled in September 1993. On October 13, Tiffany Trump was born. That December, Moore’s “gentleman” married Maples, in a lavish ceremony in front of a thousand guests. 

Moore adds, finally, that she and her daughter both voted for Trump in 2016. “I love him as our president. I love him because it’s funny to me when he kind of puts his foot in his mouth…I think he’s doing a great job and there’s more to come. I feel safe with him in charge.” 


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WHAT ABOUT THE Bunny trainee who became a judge? By happenstance, it turns out Judge Kimba Wood, currently hearing motions in the case involving F.B.I. raids on Michael Cohen’s office, home, hotel suite and safety box, once entered the Playboy Bunny training program on a lark. 

She was in college and needed money, but only lasted a week. Prancing around in skimpy outfits wasn’t quite her style, no matter the pay.

 

I think we can all agree this story would be even cooler if she had posed nude sometime in the past.

But no.

 

All Judge Wood has been doing lately is denying motions by Trump’s legal team to quash evidence that may have turned up in the raids.

 

(Disclaimer: A second Playboy Bunny, Elke Jeinsen, later told the British tabloids that she did watch Moore and Trump have sex. The story has never gained much traction in the American media, save on the pages of Hollywood Life – and for once it may be Trump is innocent. But that’s two more women calling Trump a liar.)

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

February 22, 2019: Voter Fraud, and a Non-Disclosure Agreement of Questionable Legality

 

2/22/19: President Trump proves once more that he is one of the least-informed human beings ever to take a seat – and that includes visitors – in the Oval Office. Reporters ask him about voter fraud in North Carolina. That is: Republican orchestrated, proven voter fraud. Trump responds by saying he’s opposed to all voter fraud, including made up voter fraud cases. 

For example: Texas! (See: 1/31/19.) 

It turns out Mark Harris, the Republican candidate in the Ninth Congressional District in North Carolina, was warned by his son (a lawyer) that he was breaking a variety of campaign laws. Dad decided to break them anyway. He rolled up a 905-vote victory margin, out of a total of 275,000 votes cast. Next stop, Washington D.C. where Harris planned to help drain the swamp. 

Instead, an elections board voted unanimously to overturn the results and called for a new election.

 

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YET ANOTHER former Trump campaign aide is fighting enforcement of a non-disclosure agreement, which all persons working for this president are required to sign, even though courts may decide such NDA’s are illegal in the realm of government. The aide in this case is Jessica Denson, who ran into trouble in the early days of the Trump administration. 

Her claim is that her boss, Camilo Sandoval, a former senior staffer at Veterans Affairs, harassed her and then tried to steal and hack her electronic devices. Denson alleges that Sandoval tried to engage others in a plan to snatch her personal laptop, and slandered her reputation. 

“I went to the campaign, thinking that they would support and protect me, and instead the chief information officer, Jeff DeWit, and the human resources director, Lucia Castellano, completely retaliated against me,” she alleges, “took away all the work I was doing, banned me from Trump Tower, told people to keep me away from Donald Trump and ultimately prevented me from being able to continue any kind of career or opportunity to serve in the administration.” 

“In retrospect,” she tells CNN, “what I feel is that these NDAs created an environment where people like Camilo Sandoval, who wanted to commit abuses on other people, felt they could act with impunity and engage in illegal conduct [emphasis added] and it would never see the light of day.”

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: The Trump campaign eventually sued Denson for $50,000, for violating her NDA, and won a temporary judgement. During the 2020 campaign, Denson lambasted the president. She described Trump’s first campaign as “a vile, self-serving branding exercise for one man and his family.” 

On March 31, 2021, a federal court ruled, in a class action lawsuit filed on her behalf, that the NDAs required by the Trump campaign stood in violation of free speech guarantees in the First Amendment.)



Jessica Denson.

March 4, 2019: Fox News Had the Stormy Daniels Story and Killed It

 

3/4/19: In perhaps the least surprising story of the day, The New Yorker reveals collusion between President Trump and…Fox News! 

We have seen some of the evidence before: the incessant praise for Trump from the hosts of Fox & Friends, the daily dish of Trump lovin’ fed to viewers by the perpetually outraged-at-liberals Lou Dobbs. 

We watched Heather Nauert, former Fox News Bunny, serve as spokesperson for the Department of State. 

We saw Bill Shine, disgraced former Fox executive, hired to lead the White House communications department. 

There was Sean Hannity, popping up onstage at campaign rallies besides his chunky, orange pal. 

Then it was Hannity landing seven interviews with the president and Fox landing 37 more, each chock-full of softball questions…just to be sure the president looked good.

 

Sample question from any Fox interview: “Are you the best president in history, Mr. Trump?” 

Trump: “Yes, and thanks for asking.” 

Interview ends. 

 

Fox News performed its own version of “capture and kill.” 

Now it turns out, a Fox reporter had the story of Stormy Daniels and her one-night stand with Donald before the 2016 election. The network performed its own version of “capture and kill,” despite proof Daniels was telling the truth – that Trump had cheated on his third wife, now First Lady. 

“Good reporting, kiddo,” a top executive at Fox told Diana Falzone, the reporter on the case. “But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.” 

As a writer for The New Yorker explains: 

Falzone discovered that the National Enquirer, in partnership with Trump, had made a “catch and kill” deal with Daniels – buying the exclusive rights to her story in order to bury it. Falzone pitched this story to Fox, too, but it went nowhere.

 

Falzone was demoted the following January “without explanation.” She sued Fox and reached a settlement. Falzone signed a non-disclosure agreement.

 

So, there you go.

 

Fox News: “Fair and balanced.”  We don’t let you hear the bad news about Trump. You decide. 

Also: Non-disclosure agreements are the best kind of news.



Rupert Murdoch.