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[13th Man]

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/until-democrats-come-to-grips-with-why-hillary-lost-trump-will-keep-winning/

Until Democrats Come to Grips With Why Hillary Lost, Trump Will Keep Winning

BEN SHAPIRO
8:24 AM ET

Last weekend, Hillary Clinton spoke in India. There, she continued to struggle publicly with the most humiliating experience of her life, not her husband's continual sexual misconduct or her State Department's mishandling of Benghazi but her loss of the presidency to a reality television show host. Hillary's not over it. And she never will be.

That much was obvious from her incredible, palpable anger at the American public. She first explained that Trump voters are stupid poor people: "what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward."

But Clinton wasn't done. She then stated that Trump voters are ignoramuses who still stumble out to their outhouses in the middle of the night and stoop over a hole in the ground while reading old copies of Ku Klux Klan newsletters. Those people, she said, fell prey to Trump's racist "Elmer Gantry" pitch: "you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women ... getting jobs. You don't want to ... see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

For good measure, Clinton tore into women who voted for Trump as well -- and suggested that they are all little Tammy Wynettes standing by their men. "(W)e don't do well with married white women," Clinton explained. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should." Yes, women who voted Republican only did so because they are afraid that ol' Bob is going to come home, get the beatin' stick out of the closet and start a-whoopin' and a-whalin' on the little woman.

And then, Democrats wonder why they had trouble winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Here's the reality: None of this is true. The average Trump voter outearned the average Clinton voter, and 86 percent of Trump voters were employed, about the same percentage as Clinton voters. Tribalism in voting exists on both sides: The intersectional politics of the Democratic Party is inherently race based, and Trump successfully responded to that sort of politics in reactionary fashion.

As to the notion that married women didn't vote for Clinton because of their husbands, 52 percent of married women voted for Trump; 53 percent of married women voted Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, and 51 percent voted for Republican candidate John McCain in 2008. Married women vote differently than single women not because of pressure from their menfolk but because they often have children, value family over career more than single women and are older than single women on average.
But here's the point: Clinton represents a nasty, vengeful take on populations she has trouble winning over. That nastiness has filtered through the Democratic Party, which is firmly convinced that it'd be better off drilling down into population groups it thinks are interested in tearing down the system along with them than reaching out to populations it has lost. If Democrats continue with that quest, they'll alienate the very voters who gave Trump victory in 2016.

Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

[tonman]

Wow, big surprise here, what a waste of time, resources and money. Didn't CNN try to push this narrative for an entire year?



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/house-intelligence-trump-russia.html

Despite Mueller’s Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

WASHINGTON — Even as the special counsel expands his inquiry and pursues criminal charges against at least four Trump associates, House Intelligence Committee Republicans said on Monday that their investigation had found no evidence of collusion between Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election.

Representative K. Michael Conaway, the Texas Republican who is leading the investigation, said committee Republicans agreed with the conclusions of American intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered with the election, but they broke with the agencies on one crucial point: that the Russians had favored Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“The bottom line: The Russians did commit active measures against our election in ’16, and we think they will do that in the future,” Mr. Conaway said. But, he added, “We disagree with the narrative that they were trying to help Trump.”
The announcement brought an abrupt end to one of two remaining investigations into the topic on Capitol Hill and quickly provoked sharp objections from committee Democrats, who have warned Republicans not to close the matter before the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is done with his work.

In a statement on Monday evening, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the committee, lamented the decision, saying that the committee had put partisan politics over fulsome fact-finding and had failed to serve American voters at a key moment in history.

Because the partisan republican reason for closing out the investigation is all you got out of the article.

[13th Man]

Been saying this for awhile, men are becoming pansies. I'm glad that Jordan Peterson is around to set the record straight and to hopefully help out young men to get their **** together. Society is turning against us but we don't have to give in.

Watch on YouTube

[13th Man]

Watch on YouTube

[shakendfries]

In a post that literally contributes nothing to the discussion of Trump's enablement of domestic terrorism from racists, the hypocrisy of his racist view to separate athletes from politics, or the injustice of a political system that is explicitly bought by the affluent, here comes 13th man to spew youtube links to random bull

[MrDollarBills]

Oh look, the bigot is back. How long will it be before you tuck your tail between your legs and run for the hills when another of your garbage views gets called out for being nothing short of disgusting?

Hows your gay co worker doing? Have you told him that he is genetically defective yet or do you keep your views about homosexual people (key word! people) to yourself at work out of fear of what will happen to you?

And I see you have a raptors avatar in your profile now. Why not go to their board and express your political views? Maybe your fellow Canadians will be warmer to your borderline nazi-esque view of the world and people different from you.

[MrDollarBills]

In a post that literally contributes nothing to the discussion of Trump's enablement of domestic terrorism from racists, the hypocrisy of his racist view to separate athletes from politics, or the injustice of a political system that is explicitly bought by the affluent, here comes 13th man to spew youtube links to random bull

as if anyone even bothers to watch those videos.

The funny part is, his behavior is similar to most that share his views. they can't comprehensibly defend any of their positions on their own merits, so they'll spew nonsense and then drop youtube links to scum like Peterson and Shapiro who can better articulate how garbage they are.

[MrDollarBills]

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/until-democrats-come-to-grips-with-why-hillary-lost-trump-will-keep-winning/

Until Democrats Come to Grips With Why Hillary Lost, Trump Will Keep Winning

BEN SHAPIRO
8:24 AM ET

Last weekend, Hillary Clinton spoke in India. There, she continued to struggle publicly with the most humiliating experience of her life, not her husband's continual sexual misconduct or her State Department's mishandling of Benghazi but her loss of the presidency to a reality television show host. Hillary's not over it. And she never will be.

That much was obvious from her incredible, palpable anger at the American public. She first explained that Trump voters are stupid poor people: "what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward."

But Clinton wasn't done. She then stated that Trump voters are ignoramuses who still stumble out to their outhouses in the middle of the night and stoop over a hole in the ground while reading old copies of Ku Klux Klan newsletters. Those people, she said, fell prey to Trump's racist "Elmer Gantry" pitch: "you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women ... getting jobs. You don't want to ... see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

For good measure, Clinton tore into women who voted for Trump as well -- and suggested that they are all little Tammy Wynettes standing by their men. "(W)e don't do well with married white women," Clinton explained. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should." Yes, women who voted Republican only did so because they are afraid that ol' Bob is going to come home, get the beatin' stick out of the closet and start a-whoopin' and a-whalin' on the little woman.

And then, Democrats wonder why they had trouble winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Here's the reality: None of this is true. The average Trump voter outearned the average Clinton voter, and 86 percent of Trump voters were employed, about the same percentage as Clinton voters. Tribalism in voting exists on both sides: The intersectional politics of the Democratic Party is inherently race based, and Trump successfully responded to that sort of politics in reactionary fashion.

As to the notion that married women didn't vote for Clinton because of their husbands, 52 percent of married women voted for Trump; 53 percent of married women voted Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, and 51 percent voted for Republican candidate John McCain in 2008. Married women vote differently than single women not because of pressure from their menfolk but because they often have children, value family over career more than single women and are older than single women on average.
But here's the point: Clinton represents a nasty, vengeful take on populations she has trouble winning over. That nastiness has filtered through the Democratic Party, which is firmly convinced that it'd be better off drilling down into population groups it thinks are interested in tearing down the system along with them than reaching out to populations it has lost. If Democrats continue with that quest, they'll alienate the very voters who gave Trump victory in 2016.

Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

I love how Shapiro accuses the Democrats of basing their politics off of race, yet the GOP and Trump openly panders to white nationalists and the main people who vote GOP are primarily older white males. The GOP since the late 60s has literally become "the white people" party of the United States...how blind can some people be to this? Nixon's Southern Strategy? Reagan's dog whistling talking about welfare queens? The Republicans have been campaigning based off of race and xenophobia for longer than most of us have been alive. Shapiro is either a moron, or intellectually dishonest...I'll choose the latter, because intellectual dishonesty routinely ropes in people who don't think critically.

Also, Republicans have been getting beaten in special elections leading up to the midterms, losing seats in districts that have been firmly Republican for years until Trump came along. Trump is toxic to their brand, coupled with the fact that The House and Senate republicans have gone off the rails by enabling Trump, passing disastrous legislation that hurts middle class voters, and attempting to destroy people's lives by trying to kill Obamacare.

This article will look hilarious come November.

[Roy Tarpley]

This comrade always promises to banish himself but then he comes back a week later and posts some link to a bunk site.

[13th Man]

Watch on YouTube

[shakendfries]

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A Kansas gunman allegedly opens fire on two Indian nationals in a sports bar, killing one and wounding the other. An ex-Marine is also wounded trying to stop him.

Watch on YouTube

Fueled by terror politics and the refugee crisis, a surging tide of right wing nationalism spreads across Europe, the likes of which have not been seen since World War II.

Watch on YouTube

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[AndySF]

Wow, big surprise here, what a waste of time, resources and money. Didn't CNN try to push this narrative for an entire year?



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/house-intelligence-trump-russia.html

Despite Mueller’s Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

WASHINGTON — Even as the special counsel expands his inquiry and pursues criminal charges against at least four Trump associates, House Intelligence Committee Republicans said on Monday that their investigation had found no evidence of collusion between Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election.

Representative K. Michael Conaway, the Texas Republican who is leading the investigation, said committee Republicans agreed with the conclusions of American intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered with the election, but they broke with the agencies on one crucial point: that the Russians had favored Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“The bottom line: The Russians did commit active measures against our election in ’16, and we think they will do that in the future,” Mr. Conaway said. But, he added, “We disagree with the narrative that they were trying to help Trump.”
The announcement brought an abrupt end to one of two remaining investigations into the topic on Capitol Hill and quickly provoked sharp objections from committee Democrats, who have warned Republicans not to close the matter before the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is done with his work.

In a statement on Monday evening, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the committee, lamented the decision, saying that the committee had put partisan politics over fulsome fact-finding and had failed to serve American voters at a key moment in history.

Because the partisan republican reason for closing out the investigation is all you got out of the article.

Come on, only the Leftist are bias. The Repub alpha run away from argument 13th man can't possibly be bias.
Sh..., you may scare him away if you start to talk about empowering women.

[Rich Rane]

"Alpha" endorsed another loser.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/13/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html

[Rich Rane]

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 15, 2018

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.

The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.

The rest here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/trump-organization-subpoena-mueller-russia.html

[Mosdefinition]

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/until-democrats-come-to-grips-with-why-hillary-lost-trump-will-keep-winning/

Until Democrats Come to Grips With Why Hillary Lost, Trump Will Keep Winning

BEN SHAPIRO
8:24 AM ET

Last weekend, Hillary Clinton spoke in India. There, she continued to struggle publicly with the most humiliating experience of her life, not her husband's continual sexual misconduct or her State Department's mishandling of Benghazi but her loss of the presidency to a reality television show host. Hillary's not over it. And she never will be.

That much was obvious from her incredible, palpable anger at the American public. She first explained that Trump voters are stupid poor people: "what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward."

But Clinton wasn't done. She then stated that Trump voters are ignoramuses who still stumble out to their outhouses in the middle of the night and stoop over a hole in the ground while reading old copies of Ku Klux Klan newsletters. Those people, she said, fell prey to Trump's racist "Elmer Gantry" pitch: "you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women ... getting jobs. You don't want to ... see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

For good measure, Clinton tore into women who voted for Trump as well -- and suggested that they are all little Tammy Wynettes standing by their men. "(W)e don't do well with married white women," Clinton explained. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should." Yes, women who voted Republican only did so because they are afraid that ol' Bob is going to come home, get the beatin' stick out of the closet and start a-whoopin' and a-whalin' on the little woman.

And then, Democrats wonder why they had trouble winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Here's the reality: None of this is true. The average Trump voter outearned the average Clinton voter, and 86 percent of Trump voters were employed, about the same percentage as Clinton voters. Tribalism in voting exists on both sides: The intersectional politics of the Democratic Party is inherently race based, and Trump successfully responded to that sort of politics in reactionary fashion.

As to the notion that married women didn't vote for Clinton because of their husbands, 52 percent of married women voted for Trump; 53 percent of married women voted Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, and 51 percent voted for Republican candidate John McCain in 2008. Married women vote differently than single women not because of pressure from their menfolk but because they often have children, value family over career more than single women and are older than single women on average.
But here's the point: Clinton represents a nasty, vengeful take on populations she has trouble winning over. That nastiness has filtered through the Democratic Party, which is firmly convinced that it'd be better off drilling down into population groups it thinks are interested in tearing down the system along with them than reaching out to populations it has lost. If Democrats continue with that quest, they'll alienate the very voters who gave Trump victory in 2016.

Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

I have many issues with Clinton

Most revolve around her horrible campaign and ignoring the people on the ground who said there was a problem

But this article is crap

[shakendfries]

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 15, 2018

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.

The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.

The rest here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/trump-organization-subpoena-mueller-russia.html

[MrDollarBills]

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 15, 2018

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.

The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.

The rest here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/trump-organization-subpoena-mueller-russia.html

This is pretty much confirmation that Donald Trump is indeed the center target of this investigation which encompasses multiple crimes and not just conspiracy against the united states (aka "election meddling"...).

Mueller is going to collect whatever is left of Trump's fleeting scalp, and all the rest the traitors with him. The threat of asset seizure will more then likely give that man a stroke

Let's be clear here. Anything Trump does from here on out to obstruct this investigation will land him in prison, on top of the obstruction and witness tampering he's already been caught red handed for. He can't fire Mueller and if does it will just lead to his ending much quicker. There's no escape for that lying, traitorous pussy

and don't think that his kids, especially Ivanka, come out of this unscathed.

[MrDollarBills]

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/until-democrats-come-to-grips-with-why-hillary-lost-trump-will-keep-winning/

Until Democrats Come to Grips With Why Hillary Lost, Trump Will Keep Winning

BEN SHAPIRO
8:24 AM ET

Last weekend, Hillary Clinton spoke in India. There, she continued to struggle publicly with the most humiliating experience of her life, not her husband's continual sexual misconduct or her State Department's mishandling of Benghazi but her loss of the presidency to a reality television show host. Hillary's not over it. And she never will be.

That much was obvious from her incredible, palpable anger at the American public. She first explained that Trump voters are stupid poor people: "what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward."

But Clinton wasn't done. She then stated that Trump voters are ignoramuses who still stumble out to their outhouses in the middle of the night and stoop over a hole in the ground while reading old copies of Ku Klux Klan newsletters. Those people, she said, fell prey to Trump's racist "Elmer Gantry" pitch: "you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women ... getting jobs. You don't want to ... see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

For good measure, Clinton tore into women who voted for Trump as well -- and suggested that they are all little Tammy Wynettes standing by their men. "(W)e don't do well with married white women," Clinton explained. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should." Yes, women who voted Republican only did so because they are afraid that ol' Bob is going to come home, get the beatin' stick out of the closet and start a-whoopin' and a-whalin' on the little woman.

And then, Democrats wonder why they had trouble winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Here's the reality: None of this is true. The average Trump voter outearned the average Clinton voter, and 86 percent of Trump voters were employed, about the same percentage as Clinton voters. Tribalism in voting exists on both sides: The intersectional politics of the Democratic Party is inherently race based, and Trump successfully responded to that sort of politics in reactionary fashion.

As to the notion that married women didn't vote for Clinton because of their husbands, 52 percent of married women voted for Trump; 53 percent of married women voted Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, and 51 percent voted for Republican candidate John McCain in 2008. Married women vote differently than single women not because of pressure from their menfolk but because they often have children, value family over career more than single women and are older than single women on average.
But here's the point: Clinton represents a nasty, vengeful take on populations she has trouble winning over. That nastiness has filtered through the Democratic Party, which is firmly convinced that it'd be better off drilling down into population groups it thinks are interested in tearing down the system along with them than reaching out to populations it has lost. If Democrats continue with that quest, they'll alienate the very voters who gave Trump victory in 2016.

Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

I have many issues with Clinton

Most revolve around her horrible campaign and ignoring the people on the ground who said there was a problem

But this article is crap

yeah. in no means am I a Hillary fan. I thought her campaign was poorly run, and outside of her as a politician I thought what was done to Libya under her watch was a human atrocity...and then there's the whole thing about the policies she supported as First Lady next to her husband, who helped to decimate black and brown communities back in the 90s. but yeah that piece is pretty much a 3pm rush to the toilet bowl after eating taco bell for lunch.

although:

She then stated that Trump voters are ignoramuses who still stumble out to their outhouses in the middle of the night and stoop over a hole in the ground while reading old copies of Ku Klux Klan newsletters. Those people, she said, fell prey to Trump's racist "Elmer Gantry" pitch: "you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women ... getting jobs. You don't want to ... see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are.

where is the lie here? this has pretty much been proven to be fairly accurate depiction of his base. if she actually said this (because Shapiro is a spin artist and lies routinely by omission), the only thing that she left out are the racist basement dwellers who pollute 4chan and reddit, who are angry at "SJWs" for making life miserable for them because they can't be awful in public. The type that yell the N word with the hard "R" at the end of it while playing Call of Duty because they think that they're edgy. Disaffected and miserable young men who are upset that their sense of entitlement is going unfulfilled while people who are different from them are getting the same opportunities in life that they have had a monopoly on. The ones easily lured into alt right neo nazi ideology.

[shakendfries]

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[Rich Rane]

Attorney for Porn Star Says She Faced Physical Threats

Michael Avenatti tells MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Stormy Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — wants to "tell her story" of the affair with Trump before he became president.

Asked if Daniels was physically threatened, Avenatti said "yes," but did not provide details.

Avenatti said that more detail would be revealed in an interview taped with CBS' News "60 Minutes." He says: "There's the act and the cover-up and the American people are going to learn about both in the interview and beyond."

The actress wants to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement under which she was paid $130,000 not to give details of her encounters with Trump.

https://apnews.com/471033b7f58645448287db7777425145/Attorney-for-porn-star-says-she-faced-physical-threats

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, appeared on CNN Thursday evening and said that he has recently spoken to six other women with similar stories. According to Avenatti at least two of these women have non-disclosure agreements with Trump.

Avenatti did not name the women and would not comment on the timing of the non-disclosure agreements. He has not yet decided if he will represent them.

The alleged existence, however, of at least six other women with similar stories to Daniels is not merely a sex scandal — it creates serious risks for the United States government. It shows that Trump may have broad exposure to extortion and blackmail.

https://thinkprogress.org/stormy-daniels-six-other-women-7183491b382a/