My prediction:
“They were about to arrest me, but they saw all the great REAL Americans protesting and they got scared. A big burly protester came up to me telling me how he’d seen FBI agents turn and run away from the yuge crowds who love Trump, and he had tears in his eyes while he thanked me for being strong and facing down the leftists.”
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I don’t know. I’m just a lowly law school student still. The big time law firms whose associates and partners are all from T14 schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, etc) won’t touch Trump with a 100 foot pole right now. Trump’s latest attorney, Joe Tacopina, seems to just be willing to take anyone as a client. Trump might not actually be the worst human he’s had as a client. He represented Joran van der Sloot.
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This is the reason why he begs for money online. As long as he has folks willing to contribute to his campaign/defense fund, he’ll keep playing the victim. This is something Karl Rove has been warning him about very publicly. The GOP has already had a lot of bad press from fraud allegations related to defense funds as well as misuse of campaign funds.
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… or is filing suit to get money from people such a routine thing for them that it’s not a big deal 
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“Beat our ideas”? What fucking ideas? That’s part of why 2022 was such a tepid performance for Republicans, because they are about little more than election denialism, taking away rights, and trying to hurt Americans who don’t look like them. These things may stroke the pleasure centers of their base, but they don’t really many people want to go and vote for them.
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I know some lawyers like a challenge. One that my partner knew had defended professional hitmen and mercenaries and said that he was disappointed that he had never had a war criminal as a client. But while some awful people would represent interesting challenges, others must just be unredeemed misery. Trump would surely be one of the latter: his crimes are banal and stupid, and dealing with him would be endlessly frustrating. It’s the kind of painful activity that just isn’t enjoyable on any level: less like running an ultramarathon than like hammering nails into your scrotum, over and over again.
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They don’t have ideas, they have catch phrases and memes. But it’s gotten them where they are today, so they think they’re on the right path.
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Yes, and even after his arrest, it’s unlikely they’ll pack him off to some Manhattan jail cell. It’ll be kid glove treatment all the way, with him out on bail the same day, mouthing off and stirring up shit heads.
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Hypothetically…
If he DOES flee to Russia, do you think he’ll be a Russian trophy in the American “celebrity” zoo, a la Steven Seagal (pronounced “sea-gull” originally btw), or will he be one of the unfortunate to slip off a 5th story balcony, twice?
Ugh.
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… and grated orange zest, organic, if you can find it. A touch of honey is always good on cuts and scrapes, btw:
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That one on steroids. Full US government in exile, with all the trappings.
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At least we know that anything he might tell them is going to be wrong. Want disinformation? Ask Donald!
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This whole Stormy Daniels story has never made sense to me on a basic level. Why would it be necessary to pay someone to keep them from saying they slept with Donald Trump? I mean, after spending far too long trying to pleasure the short-fingered vulgarian, your entire life thereafter would be one long walk of shame. Daniels doesn’t strike me as utterly lacking in self-esteem; why would she ever cop to such a thing? Conversely, Drumpf is so insecure he would consider it a badge of honor to bang a pornstar. I would have expected Daniels to have paid hush money to Drumpf - not the other way around (not that Drumpf would ever honor such a contract).
I assume Drumpf paid for this tryst, and it wasn’t something “organic.” Assuming this was transactional from the get-go, was $130,000 the price for the deed, with an NDA built into the overall contract? If the $130,000 was just for an NDA, or if the NDA raised the overall price, that was some shrewd negotiating by Daniels to squeeze some free money out of an unpleasant situation.
I could even believe the NDA was all Drumpf’s idea, because his ego is so massive he actually thinks someone would want to tell the world all about it. I can imagine the negotiations: Drumpf or his lawyer laying out the terms, Daniels saying inside her head “waitaminute - you actualy want to pay ME not to tell anybody?” and then out loud “my standard hourly rate is $30,000. The NDA will run you another 100K. I would hate to keep it a secret that I seduced such a rich and powerful man, but life’s just not fair sometimes.” Anyways, it’s all baffling to me. Maybe someone can help explain or point me to facts I missed. Maybe the mindsets of the parties involved are just entirely foreign to me.
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My BF LHAO when he saw and heard that creep, and immediately called him joe tapioca.
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This is all I know about it really. Rat king. Big shady mess.
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That’s why Beau’s video this morning was interesting, and I hope the GOP continues to misinterpret what people really want from pols and government: 
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Trump may have a prenup with Melania which gives her a way out of the marriage with a shitload of his money if he commits adultery. That would be a reason why he would want Daniels to keep quiet about it. As far as Daniels having a reason to not keep quiet about it…well, frankly, money. A tabloid might want to pay for a story about someone who slept with Trump for money.
In short, money explains the motivation both for why Trump would want an NDA and why an NDA would be necessary.
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Wights are dead, so shouldn’t that be Wight unlives matter?
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