Trump also assured Daniels that he and Melania didn’t “even sleep in the same room," she testified

After meeting the future president of the United States at a golf tournament in 2006, adult film star Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday that Donald Trump’s personal bodyguard asked if she would like to have dinner with the once-and-future Republican nominee.

“No, with an expletive in front,” Daniels said she told the aide in response, per NBC News. But she reconsidered after meeting with her publicist, she said, recalling their words: “If nothing else, you’ll get a great story” and “what’s the worst that could happen?”

But, according to Daniels, dinner never happened. When she got to Trump’s hotel room, she found him in pajamas – he later changed – and eager to discuss her work in the adult film industry, where she had risen from performer to director, and whether she had ever contracted and STD (“I’ve never tested positive for anything,” Daniels said).

201 points

Man, this guy’s so disgusting I’m at the point where I pretty much assume anyone supporting him is just as disgusting as him now.

This kind of fritzl-esque stuff should have turned away anyone remotely reasonable by this point.

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I’ve reposted this story a million times.

Right after the 2016 election, the NY Times had a panel with the creators of all the top political TV series. West Wing; House of Cards: Scandal, any you could name.

All the writers and producers said the same thing; if they’d had a fictional character say that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the TV networks and advertisers would demand that the character be shown getting hate from all Americans.

The media reported all the horrible things Trump said in 2016 and people still voted for the pig.

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It was so outlandish that many of these folks opted to believe the media was slandering him over him just being that scummy of a person.

The character-assassination on “The Media” (granted some of that was self-inflicted) was really successful, allowing anyone to follow whatever narrative they desired without shame.

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Another story that I’ve been forced to repeat.

Conservative woman goes on ‘The View’ TV show to defend Donnie after the pussy grabber tape comes out.

One of the women on the panel keeps saying ‘pussy’ over and over. Finally the Conservative woman asks the other lady to stop using that vulgar language.

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he’ll let them hurt who they want to hurt and that’s all they care about

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He also hurts them, but they are too stupid to realize that.

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I had watched Veep before that election and also thought the same thing. Even a very satirical comedy could never get away with even 1 Trumpism.

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21 points

People hold fictional media to a higher standard than reality.

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Or, as I have pointed out, in the "President Luthor’ comics, super villain Lex Luthor was objectively a better leader than Trump. Brought in people from both parties; put all his assets in a blind trust; disclosed all his financial records.

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154 points

Creepy fucker was president, WTF is wrong with this country?

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There are tons of creepy fuckers that love Trump because he’s a creepy fucker.

They just happen to live in key electoral college states.

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It’s because he’s their creepy fucker.

If Jesus came down from heaven and ran as a Democrat, these people would all still vote Trump.

Do not underestimate the power of tribal instincts in social primates.

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This is great point. If Trump was a Democrat they’d be fuming and calling him a godless, revolting, piece of shit.

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Does anyone remember that Bill Clinton got impeached for a fucking blow job in the oval office and lying about it on national television?

Yet we elect a president with multiple scandals, including paying a porn star hush, money for an affair while he was married. The hypocrisy in this country is ridiculous.

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Does anyone remember that Bill Clinton got impeached for a fucking blow job in the oval office and lying about it on national television?

He didn’t lie about it. He was very, very careful to make them define all their terms and then answered truthfully based on their exact definitions.

He “did not have sexual relations with that woman” because he made them define what counted as sexual relations, and by their own definition a blowjob did not.

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That’s a lie. Let’s not bullshit ourselves. Clinton got away with it because people have affairs. Especially people in power. He wasn’t smart about it. He just said what was believable.

I don’t think he is even in the same hemisphere as Trump in terms of lying. But this was definitely a lie. I do think that the Republicans at the time were out to get him and it didn’t matter. But that’s completely different than Trump. That fucker lies worse than a rug.

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You are able to see hypocrisy because you value truth and integrity.

A Repub values only white supremacist hierarchy, so the idea that they would condemn both or condemn neither is incomprehensible.

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It’s never been about morals. It’s about wielding power over others at any cost.

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I’m not from your country, and Trump is a nightmare sub-human that needs to be put away, but it wasn’t just a blow job and lying about it on tv.

-He (age 49) was her(age 21) boss; there is a level of coercion and power imbalance
-He lied under oath, it wasn’t just on tv.

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To this day I still think that doesn’t count as “sexual relations”. If one of my friends told me they had sex with someone and that’s all they did, I’d call them a liar.

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Clinton was a lawyer. He knew to ask for a specific definition and use it against them later.

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I also remember the absurdity of that case giving him a sympathetic reputation. Like, even people that hated Clinton saw it was crazy to impeach him over something so… intimate. I am worried that puting so much focus on sexually shaming TFG and ignoring the actual crime commited is gonna work out badly. Dude used campaign contributions to settle a personal matter, but har har mushroom-dick.

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I mean it’s not even in the top 100 reasons why he should not have people vote for him

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Exactly. If he’s kept out of the white house for a 2nd term because the biggest crime he’s committed is fucking a pornstar, our justice system is a failure.

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It’s not a crime to fuck them or to pay them to be silent about it.

He’s on trial for fraud with where he got the money from which is funny.

If the ‘billionaire’ paid for it out of pocket I don’t think anything that happened would be illegal.

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If he’s kept out of office for a second term, I’ll consider that a win and keep on trying for the next one. Almost everything after achieving that one goal can be done after it is achieved, but if he does get a second term then virtually everything imaginable will be getting worse for the foreseeable future.

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Republicans.

Democrats aren’t putting forth any great candidates either but at least they’re not scraping the bottom of the humanity barrel for the worst piece of shits possible like republicans have been doing as of late.

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Lots of very stupid people

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It’s specifically racist people. Yes that is a subgenre of stupid. But I think it is important to note they are both dimwitted and want to watch other people suffer.

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He’s the leader of a cult. Trump infected an army to do his bidding.

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Infected with… brain worms?

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Ha!

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I wouldn’t want to sleep in the same zipcode as that choad.

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I fear whatever coke induced madness that would come from Freud if he exposed to Trump.

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Look up “The 7% Solution.” Novel and movie about Sigmund Freud’s efforts to help Sherlock Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction

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I really feel Melania gets a big payout if trump is proven to have cheated on her in court. He only seems concerned in denying the affair, not the actual matter at hand. Maybe this breaks her prenup, and she can divorce him now.

By the way, of you ever get offered a deal where you get a fortune if trump is proven to do something stupid in court, you sign that thing.

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I don’t think Melania cares. If she did. she would have sued him long ago. She got what she wanted out of Trump in other ways and is still getting it.

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He only seems concerned in denying the affair,

Because of politics, he wants people to believe it’s about that

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Exactly. My concern is the lurid and sexual details will only serve to undermine the seriousness of the law he broke. As long as these gross but legal details are making headlines, the less coverage his actual crime gets, which his team will gladly accept.

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Trump was married twice before and has long been rumored to have had many affairs. Melania knew what she was getting into and didn’t care because of money. And as dumb as Trump is, I’m sure even he is smart enough to realize that his prenup should protect his ability to keep on with his sexual misconduct.

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I don’t like to judge other people’s actions but after all of the warning signs:

“Have you had an STD?” Spanking with the magazine after she insults him “You look like my daughter”

Why did she sleep with him? I hope she got paid. If it was just on the advice of her publicist I hope she fucking fired them.

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Well . . . yeah, she got paid. That’s what the trial is about.

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She got paid to keep quiet about it much later.

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I thought the trial is about her getting paid not to talk about sleeping with him, not if she got paid to sleep with him.

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Technically it’s about how she was paid, not about the keeping quiet.

It’s legal to pay someone to do something and pay them to not talk about it. NDAs are already a thing. You’re just not allowed to pay for it with campaign funds, it’s expected to come out of your own pocket

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Now you’re just splitting hairs. She received 6 figures…and 3 inches

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She did get paid, that’s what the whole trial is about.

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Actually, no, it’s not. It’s not illegal to pay someone to keep quiet. It is illegal to use campaign funds and lie about where that money is going. That’s what this trial is about.

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He said he’d get her on the apprentice, but seems he lied about that.

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No way. He lied, just to get what he wanted short term? 🙄

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