Posted on 07/18/2019 4:44:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Court records released Thursday show that President Donald Trump took part in a flurry of phone calls in the weeks before the 2016 election as his close aides and allies scrambled to pay porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair.
The documents detailing calls and text messages were made public as federal prosecutors closed their investigation into the payoff — and a similar payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal — with no plans to charge anyone in the scandal beyond Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.
Federal prosecutors in New York said in a court filing that they investigated whether other people gave false statements or otherwise obstructed justice. In the end, the decision was made not to bring additional charges, according to two people briefed on the matter. They were not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. […]
In the series of calls that began at 7:20 p.m. on Oct. 8, Trump, Cohen and Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks spoke together on the phone for several minutes, followed immediately by a series of calls between Cohen and David Pecker, president of American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, and the company’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard.
Prosecutors have said Pecker, a friend of Trump’s, had offered to use his company to bury negative stories in a practice known as “catch and kill.” …
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BFD. what about Her Thighness and the Bimbo Eruption Squad?
So, was monitoring these calls a component of the spy operation that the Obama administration aimed at Trump?
I can’t find anything to get excited about in the article. Trump and his staff made phone calls. Big whoop.
So, how's turning on Trump and becoming a media whore workin' out for ya, Mikey?
To the AP. Yawn! At least these women were of age and we knew we were not electing a Pope.
“we knew we were not electing a Pope.”
Maybe we should elect the Pope?
Sex scandals matter!!!
...if they can bury a Republican. Otherwise it’s a “private matter”
Has Trump been a philanderer in the past? I don’t know, and don’t care.
Has he fondled volunteers that work in the WH? That I would care about.
They can’t tie him to Epstein so they have to bring HER up again, plus they have to try to equate it with sick, pedo sex.
Since Cohen's indictment and guilty plea clearly involved the 2016 election between Bill Clinton's wife and Donald Trump, it is almost impossible to believe that Trump and his lawyers passively allowed this judge to handle that case.
yawn ....
where is today’s AP story about JW/Obama State Dept/Christopher Steele story?
where is AP’s story on Senate hearings/Robert Epstein/Google 2016 election manipulation claims?
oh, guess they haven’t got to them yet.
Precisely.
Cheers,
‘Pod
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