Donald Trump 2018

[Brisketexan 105123]

Just now, retread said:

 

Well, see, the thing is....he just makes shit up.

[retread 2951]

 

[Biff Tannen 45681]

1 hour ago, retread said:

^But what if many of the criminals are congressmen?

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

From his rally in Ohio....

He's Opie from Family Guy. 

[4th&Five 41536]

 

[Gil Bang 25951]

Just now, 4th&Five said:

At this point, I don't think even Dolemite can deny that Trump is the most ignorant, uninformed motherfucker to ever hold high office.  
"A lot of people didn't know that Lincoln was a Republican". Yeah dipshit, a "lot" of people. You, your mail-order bride, and a couple of grade-school dropouts in W. VA.  

[4th&Five 41536]

 

[Brisketexan 105123]

2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Well, if you're in a store, and they're saying "Merry Christmas" now, then you're in a fucking hellhole without a calendar.  So, there's that.

[Nivek 16928]

1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Yeah if that leads to the death of any of our spies, these shitbags should hang.  May need reinforced steel rope for our fatfuck Prez.  

Cheney outed a CIA operative and possibly compromised her associates with ZERO blowback.    Why will the right care now?  I like spies who don't get caught.

[Mapache 1117]

5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

 

Trump's Elites

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[Post Oak 20213]

I cant wait until Trump finds out Sessions has been talking to Mueller

[Skyline 325]

This image has great potential. Maybe the best thing Fox has given us in a while.

[27-25 2047]

2 minutes ago, Skyline said:

This image has great potential. Maybe the best thing Fox has given us in a while.

Gimme the marker Jimmy.  Let me show you how it's done.  Don Jr. couldn't color for shit either!

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

Lulz he’s using orange. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

RT, funded by the Russian government, appears to have bias in coverage favorable to the the Republican Party for this year’s midterm elections in the United States, producing a string of recent articles biased against the Democrats and sympathetic towards the GOP.

The midterms are set to take place on November 6, 2018. American voters will elect 35 out of 100 Senators and the entirety of the 435-member House of Representatives. The United States intelligence community has expressed continued concerns that Russia might target the upcoming elections.

@DFRLab analyzed 31 articles on the midterms that were published on RT between mid-June and mid-August this year. Of those, 19 were strongly negative towards the Democratic party and its representatives, and six explicitly linked to a Republican campaign ad. Over the same period of time, RT published no articles that were critical of the Republican party or shared links to Democrat campaign ads.

This unbalanced coverage was so systematic that it appeared to constitute an editorial policy of attacking the Democrats while boosting the Republicans. While editorial bias can be seen in many commercial U.S. outlets, RT is neither commercial, nor a U.S. outlet. RT is registered as a foreign agent of the Russian government, it is funded by the Russian state, and its own editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, has referred to it as the Kremlin’s “information weapon”.

The majority of the remaining 12 articles that did not focus on the two parties instead covered the recent developments in the Mueller probe and the intelligence warnings of Kremlin meddling in the upcoming elections. RT’s coverage of those was not neutral, referring to those warnings as “painting a scary picture” and accusing both sides of the political spectrum of using “Russian meddling” to justify their failures, while simultaneously arguing that due to poor infrastructure, anyone can “mess with the US midterms”.

Attacking Pelosi, Waters, Warner, Bloomberg and Clinton

Of the 19 RT articles which attacked the Democratic party, nine targeted specific individuals: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Representative Maxine Waters, Senator Mark Warner, businessman and politician Michael Bloomberg, and former Democratic Presidential nominee Hilary Clinton.

Of the five, Representative Waters was targeted the most. In the past two months, RT published three highly critical articles on Waters’ remarks asking her supporters to confront members of the Trump administration in public.

The three articles on Rep. Waters used highly biased language, such as “Waters was savaged by President Donald Trump”, “[Waters is] a committed anti-Trumper”, “Waters turned up the trash talk”, and “Waters seemed happy to revel in her newfound status as a victim of both the right and left”.

RT’s editorial tone was similarly hostile to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Between mid-June and mid-August, RT published three articles attacking Pelosi. Two concerned an interview she gave to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said that “Civilization as we know it today is at risk in this election” and rebuffed her critics who said the Democratic party needed younger leadership as “a little bit on the sexist side”, explaining that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell never received such criticism.

RT’s article on Pelosi’s statement that our civilization is at risk referred to her statement as “weird” and “trying to create havoc”, and RT correspondent Caleb Maupin added, “but let’s not forget that the vote is still months away and the hysteria will probably escalate and pick up steam.”

RT called Pelosi’s printed comments a “ramble” and quoted a Tweet from a conservative news site Breitbart, which suggested Pelosi took dementia medication. In total, the article quoted five tweets; of those four were negative towards Pelosi and one was neutral. Not one was positive.

The third article critical of Pelosi concluded by citing a Daily Beast poll that showed she is less popular than the Korean leader Kim Jong-un among Republican voters, which was juxtaposed to her quote, “I have great support in my [Democratic] caucus.” This hyperbolic reference appeared to be designed to undermine her claim of popularity, since the likelihood of Republican voters backing any Democratic candidate in the current hyper-partisan atmosphere remain remote.

RT also published an article mocking Hilary Clinton’s outfit she wore to OZY festival in New York city, calling her “disheveled”.

The article quoted five tweets, all of which were highly negative towards Clinton.

Senator Mark Warner and philanthropist and politician Michael Bloomberg were singled out in one attack piece each. Mark Warner was attacked as a “proponent of [the] Russiagate narrative” and Michael Bloomberg was referred to as a “billionaire pumping cash to swing an election”, who “has a well-oiled communications machine ready to spread his message”.

Over the same period, RT did not publish any similarly negative articles on any Republican donors, nor candidates.

Not all Democrats were covered unfairly by RT. Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received well-balanced coverage of her campaign and its effects on the Democratic party.

However, overall, RT’s coverage was significantly unbalanced, devoting far more attention to critics of the Democratic candidates than it did to their supporters.

Demonizing Democratic Party Supporters

RT also used loaded language to describe Democratic party supporters themselves, referring to them as “far left”, “hysterical democrats” and “lefty”.

Over the same period of time, RT did not publish any articles using loaded language to describe Republicans in its coverage of the upcoming midterms.

One article went even further and accused Democratic supporters of “leftist rage,” criticizing their behaviour, while reporting on calls by Republican supporters to arm themselves as a legitimate response. The calls to arms were published in an article titled “Fear and loathing: Trump aides advised to arm themselves, as leftist rage escalates”.

Sharing Links to G.O.P. Campaign Videos

Six out of 31 articles concerning the midterm elections published by RT in the past two months linked to the Republican party’s campaign ads. No articles published by RT over the past two months linked to any Democratic party’s campaign content.

Conclusion

RT’s editorial stance deduced from its midterms coverage between mid-June and mid-August made it clear that RT’s reporting was systematically biased against the Democratic party and appeared to be in favor of the GOP. RT’s articles surveyed by the @DFRLab explicitly targeted four elected Democratic party representatives, a Democratic donor and a former Democratic presidential nominee, while simultaneously promoting GOP. campaign materials in at least six instances over the course of two months.

Its one-sided midterm coverage strongly suggests that the Kremlin is still attempting to influence American elections through editorial bias in its highest-profile English language media outlet to date — RT, which gets approximately 15,000,000 visits from American readers every month.

[Bullneck 19084]

56 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Cheney outed a CIA operative and possibly compromised her associates with ZERO blowback.    Why will the right care now?  I like spies who don't get caught.

That's the first thing I thought of.  Scooter Libby now walks free.

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

50 minutes ago, Skyline said:

This image has great potential. Maybe the best thing Fox has given us in a while.

[Ted Lange 16085]

 

[Carl Spackler 3482]

My political viewpoints diverged somewhat from those held by McCain, but I always respected his service to the country and, in particular, the hell he endured as a POW.  One of the most despicable things Drumpf ever did (which is saying a lot) was to insinuate that McCain was not a war hero because he got captured.  Fuck the Orange One.  McCain is roughly 583,712 times the person and man he'll ever be.  I am sorry to hear that the end is nigh for McCain, but he fought the good fight and was a great American.   

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

“‘Write your story the way you want to write it,’ Mr. Trump said finally, when pressed unsuccessfully for anything that could corroborate his claim.”

He aggressively does not give a shit if he is caught lying.

He feels extremely successful when he lies in self-promotion of his own success, because he knows it gives him a massive edge over suckers who do due diligence or math or fact-checking or hard work.

Almost no one can make a strong enough countercase (proving the negative?) to defeat his system of blatant lying and blame-shifting.

Except when he gets to court. Court is slow, ponderous, has discovery and enforcement and judges and crossexamination. 

He can’t just sail into a room, wave, pose for pictures and claim he did something meaningful.

The court system short-circuits his well-practiced schtick.

So what I’m saying is he’s going to fold up his cards and try to go home. Once he knows he’s caught, he settles. 

The theory has it that he can be forced to “settle” (admit some wrongdoing and resign) if Ivanka’s neck is on the line. but I would like that not to be the case.

I would like the case against him to be so humiliating and massive and widespread across multiple jurisdictions that he not only must resign, but be in court for the rest of his natural life.

Prison, yes, but also court—he needs to sit there and listen to people prove in public that he is, as @GeorgeWill once said, a malignant charlatan. 

Prove it in Congress, prove it in New York and New Jersey and Florida. Prove it federal and state. Prove it criminal and civil.

And make him sit and fume and be humiliated by the stories of cash for sex, robbing Peter to pay Paul, stories about how a tiny Russian spy man made big orange Trump his slave. 

We need an American truth and reconciliation commission. 

Take 👏 him 👏 to 👏 court! 👏 /end

[Mdhorn 5949]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Kind of like his followers, particularly his alt-right followers who dressed up in their best khakis and shopped at Pier One for tiki torches, only to find out that they aren't so brave when their photos are being blasted across public media.

So they lash out on twitter.

yeah, those twitter nazis are something fierce when they're anonymous.    Like cockroaches they scramble to their crevices when the light comes on.  

Edited August 25, 2018 by Mdhorn

[Mdhorn 5949]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

RT, funded by the Russian government, appears to have bias in coverage favorable to the the Republican Party for this year’s midterm elections in the United States, producing a string of recent articles biased against the Democrats and sympathetic towards the GOP.

The midterms are set to take place on November 6, 2018. American voters will elect 35 out of 100 Senators and the entirety of the 435-member House of Representatives. The United States intelligence community has expressed continued concerns that Russia might target the upcoming elections.

@DFRLab analyzed 31 articles on the midterms that were published on RT between mid-June and mid-August this year. Of those, 19 were strongly negative towards the Democratic party and its representatives, and six explicitly linked to a Republican campaign ad. Over the same period of time, RT published no articles that were critical of the Republican party or shared links to Democrat campaign ads.

This unbalanced coverage was so systematic that it appeared to constitute an editorial policy of attacking the Democrats while boosting the Republicans. While editorial bias can be seen in many commercial U.S. outlets, RT is neither commercial, nor a U.S. outlet. RT is registered as a foreign agent of the Russian government, it is funded by the Russian state, and its own editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, has referred to it as the Kremlin’s “information weapon”.

The majority of the remaining 12 articles that did not focus on the two parties instead covered the recent developments in the Mueller probe and the intelligence warnings of Kremlin meddling in the upcoming elections. RT’s coverage of those was not neutral, referring to those warnings as “painting a scary picture” and accusing both sides of the political spectrum of using “Russian meddling” to justify their failures, while simultaneously arguing that due to poor infrastructure, anyone can “mess with the US midterms”.

Attacking Pelosi, Waters, Warner, Bloomberg and Clinton

Of the 19 RT articles which attacked the Democratic party, nine targeted specific individuals: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Representative Maxine Waters, Senator Mark Warner, businessman and politician Michael Bloomberg, and former Democratic Presidential nominee Hilary Clinton.

Of the five, Representative Waters was targeted the most. In the past two months, RT published three highly critical articles on Waters’ remarks asking her supporters to confront members of the Trump administration in public.

The three articles on Rep. Waters used highly biased language, such as “Waters was savaged by President Donald Trump”, “[Waters is] a committed anti-Trumper”, “Waters turned up the trash talk”, and “Waters seemed happy to revel in her newfound status as a victim of both the right and left”.

RT’s editorial tone was similarly hostile to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Between mid-June and mid-August, RT published three articles attacking Pelosi. Two concerned an interview she gave to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said that “Civilization as we know it today is at risk in this election” and rebuffed her critics who said the Democratic party needed younger leadership as “a little bit on the sexist side”, explaining that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell never received such criticism.

RT’s article on Pelosi’s statement that our civilization is at risk referred to her statement as “weird” and “trying to create havoc”, and RT correspondent Caleb Maupin added, “but let’s not forget that the vote is still months away and the hysteria will probably escalate and pick up steam.”

RT called Pelosi’s printed comments a “ramble” and quoted a Tweet from a conservative news site Breitbart, which suggested Pelosi took dementia medication. In total, the article quoted five tweets; of those four were negative towards Pelosi and one was neutral. Not one was positive.

The third article critical of Pelosi concluded by citing a Daily Beast poll that showed she is less popular than the Korean leader Kim Jong-un among Republican voters, which was juxtaposed to her quote, “I have great support in my [Democratic] caucus.” This hyperbolic reference appeared to be designed to undermine her claim of popularity, since the likelihood of Republican voters backing any Democratic candidate in the current hyper-partisan atmosphere remain remote.

RT also published an article mocking Hilary Clinton’s outfit she wore to OZY festival in New York city, calling her “disheveled”.

The article quoted five tweets, all of which were highly negative towards Clinton.

Senator Mark Warner and philanthropist and politician Michael Bloomberg were singled out in one attack piece each. Mark Warner was attacked as a “proponent of [the] Russiagate narrative” and Michael Bloomberg was referred to as a “billionaire pumping cash to swing an election”, who “has a well-oiled communications machine ready to spread his message”.

Over the same period, RT did not publish any similarly negative articles on any Republican donors, nor candidates.

Not all Democrats were covered unfairly by RT. Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received well-balanced coverage of her campaign and its effects on the Democratic party.

However, overall, RT’s coverage was significantly unbalanced, devoting far more attention to critics of the Democratic candidates than it did to their supporters.

Demonizing Democratic Party Supporters

RT also used loaded language to describe Democratic party supporters themselves, referring to them as “far left”, “hysterical democrats” and “lefty”.

Over the same period of time, RT did not publish any articles using loaded language to describe Republicans in its coverage of the upcoming midterms.

One article went even further and accused Democratic supporters of “leftist rage,” criticizing their behaviour, while reporting on calls by Republican supporters to arm themselves as a legitimate response. The calls to arms were published in an article titled “Fear and loathing: Trump aides advised to arm themselves, as leftist rage escalates”.

Sharing Links to G.O.P. Campaign Videos

Six out of 31 articles concerning the midterm elections published by RT in the past two months linked to the Republican party’s campaign ads. No articles published by RT over the past two months linked to any Democratic party’s campaign content.

Conclusion

RT’s editorial stance deduced from its midterms coverage between mid-June and mid-August made it clear that RT’s reporting was systematically biased against the Democratic party and appeared to be in favor of the GOP. RT’s articles surveyed by the @DFRLab explicitly targeted four elected Democratic party representatives, a Democratic donor and a former Democratic presidential nominee, while simultaneously promoting GOP. campaign materials in at least six instances over the course of two months.

Its one-sided midterm coverage strongly suggests that the Kremlin is still attempting to influence American elections through editorial bias in its highest-profile English language media outlet to date — RT, which gets approximately 15,000,000 visits from American readers every month.

This is why the Republicans feel it's important that they not get blocked by Twitter and Facebook. This is why of late, Trump is tweeting about it incessantly. They're collaborating with Russians on this.  They need the biggest online presences to get their propaganda out.  Does propaganda work?  Hell yeah, people hate Hillary without any evidence to back it up outside of her husband's affairs.  They hate Maxine, Warren and Giffords for basically saying don't tread on us while giving away rights to corporations.  They are told by educated Republican elitists that the educated in society are elitists.  They are told truth isn't truth and alternative facts are truth.  And along with this, they're trying to straight up disenfranchise voters.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

This was the greatest infrastructure week ever.

Trump’s campaign manager found guilty on eight felonies 

Trump’s personal attorney pleas guilty to eight felonies and implicates Trump as a co-conspirator

Trump’s accountant has turned state’s evidence with immunity 

Trump’s propagandist, who has a safe full of Trump kompromat, is granted immunity.

 

Remember Omarosa week?  That was last week.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

14 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

This is why the Republicans feel it's important that they not get blocked by Twitter and Facebook. This is why of late, Trump is tweeting about it incessantly. They're collaborating with Russians on this.  They need the biggest online presences to get their propaganda out.  Does propaganda work?  Hell yeah, people hate Hillary without any evidence to back it up outside of her husband's affairs.  They hate Maxine, Warren and Giffords for basically saying don't tread on us while giving away rights to corporations.  They are told by educated Republican elitists that the educated in society are elitists.  They are told truth isn't truth and alternative facts are truth.  And along with this, they're trying to straight up disenfranchise voters.

That’s why increasing awareness is the best defense.  We’re not going to stop it but we can expose it. 

[BrickHorn 18230]

4 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

I said he'll flip you.

Flip you. Flip ya for real.

In English, please!

[mdmost 43001]

[Gil Bang 25951]

Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases 'catch-and-kill' contract about alleged Trump affair

By Sonia Moghe, CNN

 

Updated 10:44 PM ET, Fri August 24, 2018

 

 

(CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.

On Friday, Marc Held -- the attorney for Dino Sajudin, the former doorman -- said his client had been released from his contract with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, "recently" after back-and-forth discussions with AMI.

CNN has exclusively obtained a copy of the "source agreement" between Sajudin and AMI, which is owned by David Pecker.

The contract appears to have been signed on Nov. 15, 2015, and states that AMI has exclusive rights to Sajudin's story but does not mention the details of the story itself beyond saying, "Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's illegitimate child..."

 

 

The contract states that "AMI will not owe Source any compensation if AMI does not publish the Exclusive..." and the top of the agreement shows that Sajudin could receive a sum of $30,000 "payable upon publication as set forth below."

But the third page of the agreement shows that about a month later, the parties signed an amendment that states that Sajudin would be paid $30,000 within five days of receiving the amendment. It says the "exclusivity period" laid out in the agreement "is extended in perpetuity and shall not expire."

The amendment also establishes a $1 million payment that Sajudin would be responsible for making to AMI "in the event Source breaches this provision."

"Mr. Sajudin has been unable to discuss the circumstances regarding his deal with American Media Inc. and the story that he sold to them, due to a significant financial penalty," Held told CNN. "Just recently, AMI released Mr. Sajudin from the terms of his agreement and he is now able to speak about his personal experience with them, as well as his story, which is now known to be one of the 'catch and kill' pieces. Mr. Sajudin hopes the truth will come out in the very near future."

In April, Sajudin told CNN he claims to have knowledge of a relationship Trump had with his former housekeeper that resulted in a child.

At the time, AMI called Sajudin's story "not credible" and denied any connection between the story and Trump and his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen.

The White House did not respond to CNN's requests for comments in April.

CNN has contacted AMI to clarify whether Sajudin has now been released from the contract to be able to speak on terms of the agreement and to seek reaction on this latest development, but has yet to receive a response.

Sajudin's allegation that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock has not been independently confirmed by any of the outlets that have investigated the story.

Held said he cannot give the exact date the agreement was terminated, per another agreement the attorney made with AMI in order to get his client out of the contract.

Held said that now that Sajudin has been released from the agreement with AMI, he would no longer be liable for a payment for speaking out.

"He's a blue-collar worker and a million dollars would have ruined him for life," Held told CNN.

What the doorman claims to know

When the story surfaced in April, Sajudin told CNN about the alleged relationship in a statement:

"Today I awoke to learn that a confidential agreement that I had with AMI (The National Enquirer) with regard to a story about President Trump was leaked to the press. I can confirm that while working at Trump World Tower I was instructed not to criticize President Trump's former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump, which produced a child."

The Associated Press reported in April that Cohen "acknowledged to the AP that he had discussed Sajudin's story with the magazine when the tabloid was working on it. He said he was acting as a Trump spokesman when he did so and denied knowing anything beforehand about the Enquirer payment to the ex-doorman."

Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump.

In that deal, he pleaded guilty to paying $130,000 to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to conceal her story of an alleged affair with Trump. He also pleaded guilty to working with AMI to pay off former Playboy model Karen McDougal in a similar "catch and kill" agreement in order to keep her allegations of an affair with Trump from being published. Trump has denied an affair with both women.

Pecker has received immunity in the Cohen case for providing details of the payments to prosecutors, a source confirmed to CNN on Friday.

 

 

 

 

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[Bullneck 19084]

8 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

This is a good read into what I feel Trump has been hitting on to get his base so strongly supportive.  It's a bit of psychology behind what is fueling the white supremacist movement that is coming out of the woodwork now.  Trump not only has unleashed it, but is fanning the flames. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html

What it doesn't point out very well is how much our society pushes this competition, to get people to buy more things in order to look better than someone else. 

The gist of the article is that people are hardwired for status.  Of their own kind, or own choosing.  There are obvious flaws but your relative standing to others is important. 

"Is my friend in the sand trap or is that bastard on the green?"

[Lurch 5930]

Congratulations, America! We have a new member of the First Family!

[Mojo Hand 4580]

14 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases 'catch-and-kill' contract about alleged Trump affair

By Sonia Moghe, CNN

 

Updated 10:44 PM ET, Fri August 24, 2018

 

 

(CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.

On Friday, Marc Held -- the attorney for Dino Sajudin, the former doorman -- said his client had been released from his contract with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, "recently" after back-and-forth discussions with AMI.

CNN has exclusively obtained a copy of the "source agreement" between Sajudin and AMI, which is owned by David Pecker.

The contract appears to have been signed on Nov. 15, 2015, and states that AMI has exclusive rights to Sajudin's story but does not mention the details of the story itself beyond saying, "Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's illegitimate child..."

 

 

The contract states that "AMI will not owe Source any compensation if AMI does not publish the Exclusive..." and the top of the agreement shows that Sajudin could receive a sum of $30,000 "payable upon publication as set forth below."

But the third page of the agreement shows that about a month later, the parties signed an amendment that states that Sajudin would be paid $30,000 within five days of receiving the amendment. It says the "exclusivity period" laid out in the agreement "is extended in perpetuity and shall not expire."

The amendment also establishes a $1 million payment that Sajudin would be responsible for making to AMI "in the event Source breaches this provision."

"Mr. Sajudin has been unable to discuss the circumstances regarding his deal with American Media Inc. and the story that he sold to them, due to a significant financial penalty," Held told CNN. "Just recently, AMI released Mr. Sajudin from the terms of his agreement and he is now able to speak about his personal experience with them, as well as his story, which is now known to be one of the 'catch and kill' pieces. Mr. Sajudin hopes the truth will come out in the very near future."

In April, Sajudin told CNN he claims to have knowledge of a relationship Trump had with his former housekeeper that resulted in a child.

At the time, AMI called Sajudin's story "not credible" and denied any connection between the story and Trump and his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen.

The White House did not respond to CNN's requests for comments in April.

CNN has contacted AMI to clarify whether Sajudin has now been released from the contract to be able to speak on terms of the agreement and to seek reaction on this latest development, but has yet to receive a response.

Sajudin's allegation that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock has not been independently confirmed by any of the outlets that have investigated the story.

Held said he cannot give the exact date the agreement was terminated, per another agreement the attorney made with AMI in order to get his client out of the contract.

Held said that now that Sajudin has been released from the agreement with AMI, he would no longer be liable for a payment for speaking out.

"He's a blue-collar worker and a million dollars would have ruined him for life," Held told CNN.

What the doorman claims to know

When the story surfaced in April, Sajudin told CNN about the alleged relationship in a statement:

"Today I awoke to learn that a confidential agreement that I had with AMI (The National Enquirer) with regard to a story about President Trump was leaked to the press. I can confirm that while working at Trump World Tower I was instructed not to criticize President Trump's former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump, which produced a child."

The Associated Press reported in April that Cohen "acknowledged to the AP that he had discussed Sajudin's story with the magazine when the tabloid was working on it. He said he was acting as a Trump spokesman when he did so and denied knowing anything beforehand about the Enquirer payment to the ex-doorman."

Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump.

In that deal, he pleaded guilty to paying $130,000 to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to conceal her story of an alleged affair with Trump. He also pleaded guilty to working with AMI to pay off former Playboy model Karen McDougal in a similar "catch and kill" agreement in order to keep her allegations of an affair with Trump from being published. Trump has denied an affair with both women.

Pecker has received immunity in the Cohen case for providing details of the payments to prosecutors, a source confirmed to CNN on Friday.

 

 

 

 

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Oh, my. Well, the doorman certainly has a wild imagination, doesn't he?

[Bullneck 19084]

11 hours ago, Lagunamadre said:

The same people who think it's disrespectful when the black guys take a knee. 

 

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/2970578

Holy shit, those comments.  Fucking trashy people.

I'd say your allowed a little hate on McCain if you cite the Keating affair.  But if you don't, and you're a Republican, you make even less sense than normal.  

[Ted Lange 16085]

 

[Ted Lange 16085]

Please let this be an anchor baby. 

[SubliminalHorn 6786]

10 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

Oh, my. Well, the doorman certainly has a wild imagination, doesn't he?

And pray tell, what did the doorman have to say?

[Jack Burton 35]

So 6 kids with 4 baby mamas. Cheated on all 3 wives.

 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

1 minute ago, Jack Burton said:

So 6 kids with 4 baby mamas. Cheated on all 3 wives.

 

[David Dennison 18856]

5 minutes ago, Jack Burton said:

So 6 kids with 4 baby mamas. Cheated on all 3 wives.

I always forget about Tiffany.

I wonder what this new one's name is.

[Anastasis 23469]

The gop has to be expired after this, right?

 

[Message Board User 12395]

Gonna be awesome to hear Jerry Falwell Jr and Robert Jeffers explain to us how this makes Trump more Christ-like.

[Brisketexan 105123]

The gop has to be expired after this, right?
 

You continue to be adorable. Oh, and you forgot to #bothsides this. I’m sure it’s just an oversight.

[Anastasis 23469]

Gonna be awesome to hear Jerry Falwell Jr and Robert Jeffers explain to us how this makes Trump more Christ-like.

Mary magdeline you know.

[Anastasis 23469]

You continue to be adorable. Oh, and you forgot to #bothsides this. I’m sure it’s just an oversight.

Meh. I have been long in my hope that trump scuttles the gop. The dems will have their day. #soon

[atomheartbevo 89659]

Just now, Message Board User said:

Gonna be awesome to hear Jerry Falwell Jr and Robert Jeffers explain to us how this makes Trump more Christ-like.

“President Trump is one of us, he believes in the Quiverfull movement, even if his wife’s don’t.”

[David Dennison 18856]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

You continue to be adorable. Oh, and you forgot to #bothsides this. I’m sure it’s just an oversight.

The cynicism is impressive.

[SubliminalHorn 6786]

Do y’all ever stop and think, this is fucking real life? What a time to be alive. Future looks bleak, but we will at least be able to say we witnessed it. Hopefully it isn’t while we are pushing a shopping cart down the street trying to avoid cannibals in the countryside. 

[Message Board User 12395]

so was the housekeeper hot?  Or dumpy like Monica?

[4th&Five 41536]

 

[Anastasis 23469]

Do y’all ever stop and think, this is fucking real life? What a time to be alive. Future looks bleak, but we will at least be able to say we witnessed it. Hopefully it isn’t while we are pushing a shopping cart down the street trying to avoid cannibals in the countryside. 

Cannibas in the country side sounds fucking awesome.


Owe. Wait. Cannibals. Fuck that shit.

[Lurch 5930]

I always forget about Tiffany.
I wonder what this new one's name is.

God I hope it’s also Tiffany.

[WhatTheBuck 28779]

5 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Do y’all ever stop and think, this is fucking real life? What a time to be alive. Future looks bleak, but we will at least be able to say we witnessed it. Hopefully it isn’t while we are pushing a shopping cart down the street trying to avoid cannibals in the countryside. 

I'm not happy I'm witnessing it. I'm just glad I don't have children who will suffer the consequences.