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riversedge

(72,410 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:10 AM 6 hrs ago

Trump is again trying to pay Stormy Daniels hush money: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

Source: raw story



October 16, 2024 11:11PM ET


New reporting from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow revealed that Donald Trump is once again attempting to keep Stormy Daniels silent before an election – despite the former president awaiting sentencing on 34 felony charges related to hush money payments before the 2016 election.

“We have just learned, we have reported out – 20 days before this election – we can report that he is once again trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet,” Maddow said Wednesday night as part of a breaking news “special report.”

Maddow, who said she was “a little bit bewildered by it, as well as a little bit shocked” by the bombshell reporting noted that Trump was convicted earlier this year for making hush money payments to Daniels 11 days before the 2016 election.

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“In the midst of this negotiation over paying off the last legal settlement between them, Trump is trying to get another hush money deal with Stormy Daniels ahead of this election,” Maddow said. “Trump’s lawyer basically offered to take it off the bottom line. They would pretend that Stormy Daniels owed less money to Trump than they actually believed she owed if she also signed an agreement to not talk about Trump.”
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/stormy-daniels-2669412796/








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dweller

(24,634 posts)
1. He's a repeat offender
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:15 AM
6 hrs ago

He’ll try to mount another insurrection when he loses since he’s never been held to account for his crimes

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Kid Berwyn

(17,504 posts)
4. Throw in enough zeros and people open up to eh negotiation.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:43 AM
5 hrs ago

Amazing cheek, no matter what’s at stake.

William Gustafson

(334 posts)
6. I thought part of his probation was to not commit any more crimes....
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 01:08 AM
5 hrs ago

cancel his probation and throw his ass in jail... he doesn't seem to learn...

4lbs

(7,288 posts)
7. Maybe his dementia has him thinking it is 2016 again, and he must need to shut up the Storm
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 01:24 AM
5 hrs ago

before "it" gets public.

Silver Gaia

(4,710 posts)
9. None of this is making any sense to me.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 01:56 AM
4 hrs ago

What does Stormy owe money to Trump for? How? Why?

Can someone in the know explain what this is about?

Thanks!

jacksonian

(746 posts)
10. There was a defamation suit
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:08 AM
4 hrs ago

A defamation suit she had to pay on. In settling that, Trump's lawyers offered to take off $30,000 for a NDA. Daniels laughed hysterically. No NDA in the final settlement.

My understanding.

unblock

(53,986 posts)
11. So wait, she has more beans to spill?
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:14 AM
4 hrs ago

Or I guess these days it's tea that one spills....

ETA: the article doesn't actually specify non-disclosure, so I guess it's just a non-disparagement agreement he wants. He just wants to avoid stormy on national tv 3 days prior to the election reminding everyone of that whole sordid mess.

mahina

(18,767 posts)
12. The gofundme got her 1,098,000 to save her house
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:49 AM
3 hrs ago

From that miscreant horseʻs ass. I kicked in.

Apology to all the literal horsesʻ asses.

no_hypocrisy

(48,339 posts)
13. IMO, the potential payoff is not for the benefit of the Election.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 04:58 AM
1 hr ago

It's to placate Melania. To get her to move back into the WH and pretend to be FLOTUS.

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