There were no great revelations from the Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview. In 2006 the adult film star had sex with Trump one time; basically a "down payment" for Trump's efforts to get her to appear on his reality television show, The Apprentice.
In 2011, after a magazine offered $15,000 for Daniels' story, Team Trump swung into action and threatened to sue. The magazine dropped its offer. Around the same time Daniels was threatened to keep her mouth shut about The Donald by a goon in a Las Vegas parking lot.
There the matter rested until shortly before election day 2016 when in exchange for $130,000 Daniels signed a non-disclosure agreement with Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
It is that gag agreement that Daniels is suing Trump to get out of. She has problems with her veracity though because she signed two statements denying that she had intimate relations with Trump. Her legal case seems to boil down to Trump never signed the non-disclosure agreement.
The #NeverTrumpers have a stake in the Stormy Daniels affair because the $130,000 hush money should have been reported under campaign finance law as an in-kind contribution.
All in all I thought Anderson Cooper was much harder on Stormy Daniels than Norah O'Donnell was on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, which should remind us that our corporate media prefer young genocidal despots to fading porn stars.
That Trump is feeling the heat, not from Stormy so much as Mueller turning his probe to the seamy story of Elliott Broidy selling White House access to convicted pedophile George Nader who acted as a foreign agent on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, should be apparent from the ordered expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats.
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