The sordid tale of President Trump’s dalliance with adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known better by her stage name “Stormy Daniels,” has just taken a surprising turn.
Slate magazine editor Jacob Weisberg reports that right before the election, he’d gotten in touch with Daniels through a mutual friend, who shared with him some very interesting information.
Daniels told me she’d gone to Trump’s hotel room after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in 2006. There they’d begun a sexual relationship, which continued for nearly a year. They’d met in New York and more than once in Los Angeles. In early 2007, Trump had invited her to a party to promote Trump Vodka, where she was photographed. He’d also invited her to his Miss USA pageant that year.
In our conversations, Daniels said she was holding back on the juiciest details, such as her ability to describe things about Trump that only someone who had seen him naked would know. She intimated that her view of his sexual skill was at odds with the remark attributed to Marla Maples.
Far from being just a one-off tryst as we once thought, it now appears that Donald Trump held a lengthy affair with the adult star before later ascending to the Presidency as the nominee of the so-called “family values” party, whose platform declared pornography a “public health crisis.”
While that is, of course, absurd, the hypocrisy at play is simply incredible, as is the lack of hubbub around the recent revelations that Daniels was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair.
“Daniels said she was talking to me and sharing these details because Trump was stalling on finalizing the confidentiality agreement and paying her. Given her experience with Trump, she suspected he would stall her until after the election, and then refuse to sign or pay up” recounts Weisberg.
Why Weisberg decided to keep this information to himself until January 2018 is the question on everyone’s mind. He writes in Slate that since Trump was facing “a torrent of accusations of sexual abuse, [he] didn’t think an extramarital affair would be a highly significant story.”
It just goes to show that everything we thought we knew about politics in the United States is wrong. Every single one of the scandals that Trump was hit with was turned around and weaponized against the media. Republican voters showed that behavior that would prompt cries for blood in a Democratic candidate was tolerable in a Republican one. Hypocrisy only matters in the liberal worldview.
