Stephanie Clifford, aka “Stormy Daniels” on 60 Minutes
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In watching Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, on 60 Minutes last night one thing is clear to me: While she tells us statements that I believe are truthful, she is not consistent in what she says is motivating her.
Daniels wants you to believe she is upset about people talking about her, and she wants to set the record straight. And she also wants you to know she isn’t doing this for the money.
Do I believe either of those statements?
No, I do not.
When it comes to Daniels account of meeting Trump, and having sex with him, I do believe she had sex with Donald Trump, though I believe she fudges a bit on what happened between her and Donald Trump on their second meeting.
I don’t believe she just watch TV with Trump for four hours while nothing happened. Like with Bill Clinton, the caveat here is what Daniels would classify as “sexual relations” or sex.
When Daniels talks about being alone in the hotel room with Trump, I find her reasoning for having sex with him total nonsense and ridiculous:
Stormy Daniels: I realized exactly what I’d gotten myself into. And I was like, “Ugh, here we go.” (LAUGH) And I just felt like maybe– (LAUGH) it was sort of– I had it coming for making a bad decision for going to someone’s room alone and I just heard the voice in my head, “well, you put yourself in a bad situation and bad things happen, so you deserve this.”
Anderson Cooper: And you had sex with him.
Stormy Daniels: Yes.
Every woman knows that getting an invite to a hotel room to meet a man alone in the evening has a high chance the man is expecting sex—especially with a very powerful man with a reputation such as Trump.
Daniels wasn’t so naïve as to not realize this. To suggest so is flat out insulting.
Of course she went with her own expectations and a goal in mind—so if you are going to be honest, Daniels, admit it.
There is also a pattern of Daniels trying to get money. She’s tried and tried and tried.
First she agreed to take $15,000 in 2011 from In Touch magazine, but supposedly the money never came.
Then she took $130,000 from Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, on behalf of Trump, but the contract was never signed. Oops.
You wonder when Daniels discovered this? Was it recently? Another goldmine?
If she truly got great offers before, then why didn’t she take them between 2011 and the election? I mean she wouldn’t have had to sign a “hush agreement”, which didn’t benefit her at all. The only way I could see her great offers as being true is if she held out and held out for better ones and they never came. Oops, her mistake.
To me, it appears Daniels attorney, Michael Avenatti, is playing a game here. He is slowly building the stakes for Cohen and Trump. Little by little, Daniels is revealing more and more about what happened to the public, and I believe they are hoping before she reveals too much, Cohen and Trump will settle for another undisclosed amount.
Don’t believe me?
Watch Daniels on Jimmy Kimmel a few weeks ago. She taunts and teases the audience and Kimmel—letting her adversaries know she’s willing to talk, but she’s holding back for now.
That didn’t work.
So next she goes on CBS 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.
She reveals more: Will that work?
Watch her attorney speak since the 60 Minutes interview. He’s upping the stakes even more.
Why do you supposed that is, if it’s not for more money?
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to be in a room with either Trump or Daniels. I would not trust either of them behind my back for a second.
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