Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi
What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.
Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulus clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. Stormy first encountered Mr. Trump in 2006 when he was a mere TV star who played in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. She was hanging out there with two porn-star girlfriends. Golf nuts all, must’ve been.
Stormy managed to blow into Mr. Trump’s hotel room there, so her story goes, where she apparently teased him into a state of florid desire, while mocking him, and then obliged his advances, even developing a sort of friendship that, over a few years, included more hotel room meet-ups and promises of revamped stardom on his “The Apprentice” TV show, alas, never consummated. Strange to relate, around that time Stormy launched her own political career way before Mr. Trump made the leap into government.
But once Mr. Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential primaries and began to terrify the establishment by winning one contest after another, Stormy finagled $130,000 hush-money payment through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep her big yap shut about their doings. By 2018, she hitched herself to California lawyer Michael Avenatti (now in prison) and filed a lawsuit against then-President Trump attempting to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement that came with the hush-money. Stormy also engaged a publicist, and, what do you know, The Wall Street Journal published a story about the alleged romance. By then, Stormy had launched a “publicity tour” and got herself booked on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to discuss the allegations.
In December 2018, Stormy lost a defamation suit against President Trump filed by Mr. Avenatti, and was ordered to pay over $300,000 to Mr. Trump. Five years later, an appeals court ordered her to pay an additional $122,000 to Mr. Trump to cover his legal fees. By then, Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, was in jail in California for embezzling client funds. Various letters had emerged allegedly signed by Stormy stating that she hadn’t engaged in sex with Mr. Trump, along with Facebook conversations on her account saying the same thing.
Also, in 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was busted by the FBI for tax evasion and eventually plead guilty. He was interrogated by the Mueller special counsel operation which, by a convoluted route, earned Mr. Cohen a conviction for perjury in congressional testimony. Stormy Daniels then sued Mr. Cohen for defamation but the case was dismissed. Mr. Cohen eventually served a year in prison but was released to home confinement due to the Covid-19 event.
These doings did not go unnoticed by the politicized Southern District of New York office of the DOJ and by then Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. Both tried to construct some kind of case against President Trump on all this monkey business, but gave up because the payment of hush-money was itself not illegal between consenting parties and they could not torture the facts into a theory that would make it a crime. Also, by then, their chief witness, Mr. Cohen, had been disbarred and was officially branded a perjurer and liar.
Fast-forward to the 2020 election. “Joe Biden” manages to charm swing-state voters from his basement hide-out, moves into the puppet-theater known as the White House, and unleashes the dogs of lawfare on former president Trump so as to knock him off the political game-board for once and for all. “JB’s” Attorney General, Merrick Garland, sends Deputy AG Matthew Colangelo to work in DA Alvin Bragg’s office, to construct some kind of case out of the Stormy Daniels / Michael Cohen debris.
The result is an improbable farrago of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments, converted from misdemeanors to felonies on the theory that the falsifications were intended to conceal other election law crimes, including “influencing the 2016 election.” Each count for which Trump is convicted could result in a prison sentence of up to four years, to be served consecutively, meaning 136 years in jail.
Mr. Trump thus becomes the proverbial ham sandwich that an ambitious DA can convince a grand jury to indict. Now, Mr. Bragg has to persuade a trial jury to convict, in a courtroom presided over by one Judge Juan Merchan, Democratic Party activist and donor, whose daughter, Loren, has raised $93-million in campaign money for Democratic candidates in this November’s election. The Judge has, so far, refused to recuse himself.
The DA’s chief witness will be Michael Cohen. Donald Trump will be the first US president indicted on criminal charges. He’ll be in the courtroom many days as the trial proceeds, likely into June. Even if the trial becomes a dumpster fire for the prosecution, Mr. Trump could be convicted by a Trump-deranged New York jury. Then it’ll be onto the appeals courts. Then, the three other lawfare cases await in Georgia, Florida, and DC. Do you suppose that Americans actually take comfort in the re-election of “Joe Biden”?
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If I had 30 yr. old Melania at home waiting in the same pose at the same time I think I would have passed on something with 100 different guy’s jazz all over every orifice.
The case is a fraud and represents the utter decay of our legal system and everything else. I hope Bragg and Merchan are content to never leave Manhattan again for the rest of their lives.
Bragg: paying a hooker is a campaign expense.
Politicians everywhere: Woo Hoo!!!
Bragg is nothing but a highly paid whore himself.
“The Trial Of the Century” will have nothing to do with DJT, OJ, or anyone else but Fauci. A proven mass murderer who orchestrated, funded, directed, and lied repeatedly about the largest mass murders in human history, Beginning in the 1980’s with the AIDS bioweapon and continuing with the Covid bioweapon. All funded and conducted by Anthony Fauci. He must be execured after a Nuremburg trial,.
This isn’t over, the WHO and our own NIH/DARPA warlocks have much more in store for us.
Ammo up.
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Agree……………. plus 130K is a lot of money for skank pussy.
Didn’t Clinton pay that Paula chick with the big nose $800k?
She got a nose job with the money so it is not that big anymore.
She’s very pretty. Inflation, you know.
John Kennedy had a 28 year old Jackie waiting at home every day and passed that up regularly. But then again, Bill has Hillary waiting at home every day too,,,
I lost my train of thought…
Marilyn or Jackie? I go with Marilyn every time.
More than half the voters know these lawsuits against Trump are all bullshit and the dems have simply tanked the rule of law to whack their opponents. Consequently, every day Trump spends in court is more free political advertising. Plus he’s winning over more voters, especially those on the low economic rungs, who themselves have been victimized by the elites.
The level of brilliance in this Democratic strategy is difficult to fathom.
You’re right.
If Trump wasn’t allowed something to rail/wail about, people would quicker recognize the Bag O’ Rocks he is.
He may be bag of rocks but the alternative is a bag of shit.
There is no alternative retard. Him and Biden are both puppets. Same puppet masters. Wake the fuck up.
You are the moron puppet. Obviously there is a reason they hate Trump, whatever it is, and the fact he upsets them so much is okay with me. Your whining is trite.
HAHAHAHAHAHHA!
If the same “puppet masters” think there are no differences, why is DJT on death row lawfare by The Deep Sate everywhere and Pedo Joe is ignored? Explain that dichotomy Albert E.
You are not coherent….At all.
LOLOLLLLLL!
Morons can’t have many thoughts so keep repeating the same one.
Bag of rocks?
Wharton business school and outsmarting the NYC government and NYC mafia to build dozens of buildings over several decades doesn’t sound like a bag of rocks to sane people. LOLLLLL!
It’s like when in 2016 they had him on CNN non stop, thinking that it would hurt him.
CNN and FOX = same goal same bosses.
He’s a fucking actor for chrissakes are you that stupid?
if he is one of them why are they trying so hard to stop his
chance of winning this time, someting not right with your logic
My point, too
Its a lot like the muslims. Two factions that fight and kill each other. But when they have a common enemy they’ll band together to kill the enemy, and afterwards go back to killing each other.
Globalists and neocons hate each other, both vying for the reigns of power. They’ll join forces to fight conservative folks because they tend to see thru their BS and oppose them.
Its all theatre, really bad theatre but theatre all the same.
meant to say globalists/neocons and demoncraps hate each other.
Ah but Trump actually went up against the Neo cons and the glow bull ists when he ” colluded with the Russians ” by helping them wipe out ISIS ( a US manufactured neocon proxy force ) in Syria .
“A fucking actor” that The Deep State is trying absolutely EVERYTHING to stop.
You clowns can’t keep your logic on a leash.
Moar mockery of “justice” and “rule of law” by a “legal system” that has been thoroughly corrupted by Communist-Democrats, $0r0$, and money.
Anything to distract from the ongoing sinking of the former USA.
I expect Karma to pile it on big time this summer. Blackouts, Brownouts, don’t run your A/C or charge your electric Stupidmobile, electric rates up multiples under Dementia Joe and undoubtedly outrages at the border and every where else by illegal invaders. The MSM will cover what they can while screaming Orange Man Bad! Lincoln will be proven correct: “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” People who were finally making headway the first time in their lives under Trump won’t be able to pay their electric bills in three months. The communists cannot win a national election legitimately if 18% of Blacks vote R. We will see 25% or more. The so called Historic Black Colleges students are solidly pro Trump. They have lost Hispanics and will get no more than half their vote. Lara the Warrior Princess is going hard for registration and ballot harvesting.
How do they explain Biden wins in ’24 with more votes than eligible let alone registered voters total? What a shitshow.
104,365,277 is the correct winning number. They are doing the recount now. There is some difficulty calculating the adjustments as there are so many unmarked jets in the air.
OH look! I know it’s December 11th but Rastus McSweeney in Georgia just found fourteen voting machine tally flash drives from all of the battleground states Trump is leading in. The judge says chain of custody and origin can’t be questioned, because-equity and dat’s rayciss!
They have to have the vote totals before they can do the adjustments.
I must be a prophet. We just had a brownout here in Northern Illinois and it’s only in the 70’s.
I’m about 70 miles SE of Sugar Grove and my power blinked off this afternoon. I guess all the fuckin windmills I’m surrounded by can’t keep up, 88 by me today.
Around 80 here an hour west of Sugar Grove. We are both in the extreme western part of the grid which powers both of us and goes all the way to the east coast. The shitheads and Governor Smirking Pig Face have eliminated, shut down, whatever, the base load power leaving us with windmills and solar which everyone who isn’t a politician knows is unreliable. When mine went off, the lights came back in less than a minute but there was not enough power to make the A/C run. After about ten minutes I was able to turn it on. It’s a new super duper high efficiency job I got after the power surges from the Derecho blew out half the A/C compressors in town about four years ago. I never asked my relatives around Joliet, Wilmington etc. if the Derecho affected them but NW Illinois and East Central Iowa got walloped with all kinds of electrical damage.
Pole cutouts and OCR’s (over current regulators) will do that too, their job is to prevent a blackout.
Unlike Clinton and Obama, at least Trump has taste in women.
Unlike Obama, Trump “likes” women. Billy would do a snake if you held its head.
Do a snake, he married one.
More like a Monitor Lizard.
Her middle initial is “V”.
No. Gila Monster.
“Stormy finagled $130,000 hush-money payment…”
I think the word you’re looking for here is “extorted”
Or got paid for services rendered 😉
They both say not!
Test
Hey, what happened to my avatar???
Joe- I can’t use my usual handle, (BL). I’m sure it will all work out eventually.
Been wondering where you were, BL. Good to see you.
Hi Mary! I’ve missed you also. Had a death in the family and my eyes are getting worse. Prolly ready for the bone yard :).
avatar is tied to email. You posted these with a different email.
I have never posted my email here. Just call me Bea Lever from now on….:).
Thank you Sir, for much much more than responding to my minor query.
Thanks for keeping this forum alive.
If Kunstler doesn’t know these fake investigations and trials are Smith Mundt Act productions he is ONE OF THEM. Or he is a complete retard. His writings are so juvenile.
He also said he could not attend the Supreme Court case Wednesday. Lawyer daughter says he has no power to do this.
Political theatre to distract us from more important issues.
LIKE TRUMP SAID, IF HE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW ALL THIS WOULD END BY FRIDAY.
Liars gonna lie, bro.
“Why would I lie?!?” – The Collector
“I imagine it’s like breathing for you.” – Thanos