I didn't think so, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Though I'm surprised the check didn't bounce. Trump isn't known for actually paying people anything.

Blood is now in the water.

and more. Someone will have vetted, one assumes, and WSJ is completely unambiguous, stating it as fact.

Fire and Fury reports Trump had an extremely varied sex life, before and after Melania, and is also frequently foul mouthed, nothing at all new here. Whatever few constraints the media still held onto, to allow the president to project something of a desired presidential image, are clearly off.

Looks like calling other nations "shitholes" was a big, big mistake. Assuming that's the one, anyway.

Ms. Clifford looks like she is well qualified for the job she was hired for.

I dare say she brought a level of expertise and professionalism sadly lacking in Trumps cabinet, White House staff and political appointees.

It’s almost like Fox running the story.

A former porn star reached a $130,000 deal just before the 2016 election to stay silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump

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I must have been mistaken

Just sayin....

We get it daily. There is some excellent reporting in it.

Just stay away from the editorial page.

for trump, so yes, it is a surprise

http://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-mueller-trump-russia-dossier-collusion-clinton-2017-10

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/wall-street-journal-killed-editorial-on-trumps-mob-ties.html

Full disclosure: I get about one paper edition per week of TWSJ. I link to them at DU. I read the tweets by TWSJ. and their reporters. I must have some stake in News Corp. via a few shares of stocks and index funds. Other than that, I have no connection with them.

them questioning the integrity of a special counsel.

They sure had no issue with Ken Starr

I have heard. We had a free subscription to WSJ last year and liked it. Now I subscribe to the NYT online.

The NY Times is also not the newspaper it use to be, even beyond the Judy Miller fiasco.

They hired climate denier Bret Stephens at a time when the trump administration and the republicans want to undo any gains made to curb green house gases, pollution, and exit the Paris Accords.

Perhaps one of their most outrageous articles was when the NY Times blamed the Democrats, and specifically President Obama for being responsible for pushing republicans to be climate change deniers because of the "Democratic hubris in the Obama years":

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

They then proceeded in the article to make excuses for the republicans by saying "most republicans do not believe climate change is a hoax"

“Most Republicans still do not regard climate change as a hoax,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who worked for Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. “But the entire climate change debate has now been caught up in the broader polarization of American politics.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

In another instance they did false equivalency garbage between the republicans and Democrats through a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It is so out of context it is pathetic. Is this what the NY Times has become, trying so hard to present the appearance of objectivity they end up doing the exact opposite.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Another example was when one of the Democrats on the FEC stepped down, the Times built the false equivalency argument that how there is deadlock because both sides won't budge. That was NOT the case at all, and was a gross distortion again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/fec-elections-ann-ravel-campaign-finance.html

In fact that report was so messed up, that the Democrat who resigned from the commission wrote a rebuttal to state the reality of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html

They have been doing the false equivalency schtick all through 2016, and they were right out there with the rest of the media outlets with headlines implying how Comey reopened the email investigation, while hidden between the ether that the email investigation was not reopened. One has to wonder if that was their attempt at sensationalism, rather then putting it in proper context

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/30/ny-times-floods-front-page-fbi-letter-stories-while-acknowledging-it-didn-t-reopen-clinton-server/214202

There are plenty more examples, but suffice to say, the NY Times isn't even in the shadow of the newspaper it used to be

The days of the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein or The Pentagon Papers are long gone

the Washington Post.

and I would like to apologize for that.

I subscribe to the Washington Post online, but I am not going to recommend them over the NY Times, or any other paper for that matter, except to say that I think as readers, or listeners, it is probably a good idea to distinguish what parts of a story are news, as opposed to the writers opinion.

That is kind of what you were telling me in regard to the WSJ editorial views, verses its actual reporting of news, and you're right.

I think the problem comes into play when a news story incorporates a writers or a broadcasters personal views, and I guess it is up to us to make that distinction

Several sources pointed to the editorials by one writer, James Freeman. “All-in for Ted Cruz” during the primaries, Freeman wrote a strong attack on Trump’s Mob dealings, and had a second ready to go. But as Trump got closer to clinching the nomination, Paul Gigot kept delaying publication, saying “it needed work.” Once Trump became the likely Republican nominee, Freeman executed a neat volte-face. “The facts suggest that Mrs. Clinton is more likely to abuse liberties than Mr. Trump,” he wrote. “America managed to survive Mr. Clinton’s two terms, so it can stand the far less vulgar Mr. Trump"


What a bunch of whores.

seem to be slanted at times, where previously that would not happen with news stories from the WSJ, so I am not surprised what you posted Maraya from the NY Magazine

Thanks

No doubt she got wind of the settlement and was furious at having been cheated upon after only about a year of marriage.

Trump probably justified the affair by saying Melania at the time was pregnant and unattractive. I mean, he's only human, right?

man who calls himself potus is really a lowlife turd-in-chief of 60million toilet dwellers...ameriKKKa your true nature is out in the open and airing it out has only increased the stink of hypocrisy, racism, sexist, bigotry....I have to wear a mask everyday in public to try to keep from gagging and puking...at every reminder of the turd-in-chief.

By the way...you just got an FBI file, with your name on it.


Welcome to the club

Just some people that have been "inserted" to start collecting an enemies list. Getting ready for the gulag.

What a wonderful ..pathetic...system of injustice

Sachs & Romney stole/ destroyed our public company (eToys.com); and they retaliated at me for reporting their bribe attempt.

To protect them from being indicted, their lawyer was planted into the DOJ as US Attorney over the case (Colm Connolly was a partner of Sachs/ Bain law firm MNAT.com).

Years later, I received proof of the corruption; and was able to get Senatok Biden helped us and Joe blocked Colm becoming a Delaware Federal Judge.

This past Christmastime, Trump is now trying to sneak Colm Connolly back into that very same (empty for 9 years, blocked during Obams) judges seat
https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/1331?r=6

Aadditionally, the Public Corruption Task Force was SHUT down, after I reported the Colm Connolly Corruption. Senator Feinstein wrote a letter, after we communicated the problem. https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=ECFA735E-9A7F-A6C9-DFB2-F03C0133794E

Feinstein can't do nothing; because it is Delaware; and I'm no longer a neighbor of Biden's.

Everytime (EVERY TIME) , I get close to seeing justice, the FBI threatens me.

One time said I would be prosecuted for violating the Electronic Spam ACT for emailing specific agents and DOJ Deputies. Last year, Sept 26th, my fellow warrior (eToys shareholder Robert Alber - woke up dead - after his life was threatened and he had to shoot/ kill career criminal/ would be assassin Michael Sesseyoff).

3 days after Alber died, the DE FBI emailed me and called me. This time I thought justice would come. No FBI every called me and give his full name, cell# and email.

But he threatened me too (initially), on behalf of Asst US Attorney Ellen Slights (who was Colm Connolly's Assistant). Told me to take down my websites or the would put me away for life (I'm 61).

Told him to go F...

A week later, this agent convinced me he was sorry (actually sent me an email "Thank You" and asked to be kept in the loop.

Now I try to reach him, and learn he is Senior Agent (who is the one to give A-Okay by local background check, for Colm Connolly, to become judge.

He won't answer, and I get word Friday, Senate slips okay Connolly vote....So I call Baltimore and inform their corruption task force guy, this is unacceptable.

They tell me to call D.C. Task Force on Corruption; and I get handed to a call center that tells me I'm a Barret Brown threatening Agents and prosecutors

I told them F..them ..Bring on their arrest and prosecution

Last place they want my evidence, us a court of law.

They threatened to put me away for 3 strikes, If I don't drop thus case.

Truth is, Ill face a prosecution, if that is what it takes.

Though... I suspect...a crooked judge will prevent my stating the facts.

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Never went away from the 60-70's. Just more info in that file and plan on contributing a lot more with this turd-in-chief pisssing me off more and more every fucking day

(Jumping around like a six year old on Christmas) this is spread to all the news/TV outlets in the world..... And I hope he got a dose of clap from the experience....

and now that he's elected, it won't change the minds of his minions, sadly.

gawd!

that Trump can, in fact, be blackmailed. Despite his insistence (as well as that of his delusional cultists) that he is impervious to blackmail.

This incident proves it.

It actually confirms what the Steele Dossier noted - that Trump is not only susceptible to blackmail, but is probably actually being blackmailed by the Kremlin and/or the Russian Mafia, most likely because he's up to his neck in money laundering via dubious - and highly secretive - real estate transactions.

Dam, the girl blue inked the bottom line. I, Donald the Great (destroyer), is - literally - the most important/ famous, big highly guy, in this entire world. When I speak -
people listen!

Women are throwing themselves at me, everywhere (so much so I gave a few to the Secret service guys).

She violated an iron-clad Non-Disclosure agreement (gonna have to call Jeff Sessions, right away).

You simply can't trust anyone or any document thingy.

Can't a pathological lying, narcissistic, spoiled rich brat, POTUS, get a break these days...

Shheesshh!

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or maybe that only happens in Russia?

the WSJ researched until they found someone who knew the story about her and Trump. All kinds of people are involved in arriving at settlements.

Did she file a lawsuit or just write a letter?

You can't jump to conclusions about these things. She may have a manager. The manager may have an office. There are bank clerks. There are all kinds of people who know the details about such deals. Including Trump's staff, his lawyer's staff. (on edit) Co-workers, family, random people who may have met her, then there is Trump, Melania, Trump's many "friends" and co-workers -- Bannon. Who knows? The number of people involved is not so small.

In case you didn't notice...moi was speaking in Trump-person

And there's a "sarcasm" thingy, at the bottom of my skit.

Shheesshh

That's one of the reasons why he's constantly in financial trouble.

So why is this any different?

Seriously. Educate me.

It is all pretty old stuff. Nothing has ever been made of it and Clifford has always denied anything to do with Trump other than having met him at a golf tourney and dinner once with Trump and Rothlesburger (Steelers QB). I really doubt that anything will ever come out about this.... sadly...

and 130k of hush money isn't "i'm innocent, stop bothering me" money, it's "don't share the criminality of my actions" money. we'll eventually hear the details.

Isn't that the same response from Trump's WH?

or she laughed her ass off at his size?

Oh, Donnie, I kid, I kid!

Hope she srsly rocked your world for that kinda coin ...

Actually I don't, I hope she made fun of you.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Stormy Daniels strode onstage at a downtown Baton Rouge restaurant in a tight black blouse with a plunging neckline and a knee-length skirt in the popular purple of Louisiana State University. She introduced herself with a warning.

“For those of you who don’t know who I am,” she told the lunch crowd at The Roux House, “I’d suggest that you don’t Google that until you get home from work.”

https://nypost.com/2009/05/07/porn-star-may-make-senate-run/

I think that almost makes it the truth.

The Dump constantly denying will give him permanent constipation.

Come on, little donnie, let it loose! You'll feel better and we can hire some plumbers with backhoes to unclog the pipes.

A diet of buggers and lies has got to be hard on a normal digestive system.

Paying for her "laundry" ?



So when he "grabs 'em by the pussy'", they just grab him by the wallet?

He has to pay $130,000 to get laid? Maybe he has a tiny dick after all.

Now what was all this stuff about the righteous taking over from “Wicked Hillary” (The church-going Methodist grandmother)? I forget.

He's a spoiled sociopath. He long been known to be a sexual deviant and I think his deviance goes way beyond the pee tapes.

This is a sick human being. Pedophilia and worse are likely among his tastes. He's never had any limits, nothing it out of bounds for a monster like him.

i'd gladly not talk about it for free!

how many STDs Donnie-boy has?

No wonder Malaria won't let him touch her.

I shit you not. He equated fighting the clap, syphilis, etc., as his personal tour of duty in Vietnam.

http://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/

oh boy! That one, in particular, Ivanna Rotchikokov. He's in BIGLY trouble! Sound the name out phonetically. Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.

too good it may well be. I hope all ducks are in a row on this or we're back to fake news that his Frankenstein spokesperson Hucklebuck can drool on about.

Doesn't seem like much...considering. Hazard pay anyone?

Truly in tune with the forgotten working men and women.

How can he deny it as the lawyer for Daniels has the payment that was sent to HER lawyer in a client trust. There is obviously viable documentation that can be used as evidence. Hope more women come out and expose this kinky fool.

No doubt Trump's religious advisor is already working up his justification. I HATE LIARS!!

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Has Murdock turned on the lsos?