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).

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    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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            There was a time when some of the Libertarian-minded conservatives said Trump was going to legalize weed. I think these two instances have an important relation: they are examples where conservatives of different types are superimposing their own beliefs onto Trump. He thus becomes the “perfect” candidate in their mind; the one who directly aligns with them in every way. This belief is very durable, able to withstand any facts that come from objective reality.

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              I’m sure at some point Trump actually came out in favor of legal weed, exactly the same way he said he was for strong ‘Red Flag’ laws. He’s a child who will say anything

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            Another another story I’ve repeated many times.

            Trump had an ongoing lottery where the winners would get to dine in the White House with Trump and Melania. Ran for years and never had a single winner.

            As low as I hold his voters, Trump despises them more.

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            As long as it harms other groups more than at harms them, they love being owned and obedient to corporations.

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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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            The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

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            To be fair that makes sense. Fictional reality can be anything and has to be good. Reality just happens and you have to accept it sometimes.

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

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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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      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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            It’s basically that he lied about what the payment was for. If he had filed it as something more accurate, there’d have been no problem.

            But he said it was for “retainer fees”, and that’s a misdemeanor.

            It was to conceal campaign finance violations; which as it’s another crime, makes it a felony.

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

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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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    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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    “At one point, Daniels said Trump compared her to Ivanka. “You remind me of my daughter,” Trump said, according to Daniels, an apparent reference to them both being blonde, intelligent and underestimated”

    Let’s all thank a God who may or may not exist that The Orange One didn’t utter these words whilst he and Stormy were re-creating Gallo and Seveigny’s more raunchy scenes in The Brown Bunny

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      Yes, and this testimony establishes that there was a reason to make the payment, and a reason to falsify them, it’s the story he was trying to bury, now the jury knows it and can make a more informed decision.

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        Obstruction of Justice is a felony. Witness tampering is a felony. Taking state secrets - ho, you better believe that’s a felony.

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      Which says he knew how gross it made him look but decided to both have an extramarital affair and cover it up.

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        Look, im on your side and i want this guy to go jail. You already seen them try to mistrial over this, because although its gross, neither of those things are illegal and theyre not what hes being charged with. Hes being charged with falsifying business records. Its a simple case, they have the check stubs he signed, they have the records not showing payments, his previous lawyer is already in jail because we already know all of this happened. All this testimony is doing is giving them room to argue about personal biases.

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          they have to show he’s not doing it to protect his wife or whatever - in a personal capacity. Imo this testimony makes him sound like he knew how gross it would be to most people. But yeah they might open the door for an appeal and also the defense he did it to protect his daughter who he does have business dealings with (though making that argument would probably even ick some trump supporters).

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      Well yeah sure along with a slew of other crimes he committed. If our system wasn’t broken, he’d already be charged with treason and in jail or just offed like how we used to treat treasonous bastards.