Michael Ejercito
2018-05-11 11:52:58 UTC
https://ethicsalarms.com/2018/05/10/regarding-the-stormy-daniels-affair/#more-44440
Regarding The Stormy Daniels Affair
Ethics Alarms has not spent a lot of time or space discussing the Stormy
Daniels scandal, and the reason is quite simple. I don’t care about Stormy
Daniels, and I don’t care what the President did or didn’t do with Stormy
Daniels before he was President. What ever it was, it was not a crime, nor
did it take place while he was President of the United States. As a result,
the excessive coverage of this story is one more example of the press doing
whatever it can to undermine and diminish this President, out of personal
and partisan antipathy. The episode is embarrassing to the nation, and
harmful as well, but no other President would have his pre-candidacy conduct
obsessively covered like this. No talk late night talk show hosts induced
any of Bill Clinton’s past conquests to dish on national TV, with the
express desire of humiliating him and the First Lady. CNN’s carpet-bombing
with this story is Exhibit A on how far Ted Turner’s promising baby has
descended into squalor.
I assume that the porn star was paid hush money by sleazy Trump fixer
Michael Cohen, with or without Trump’s knowledge, but probably with. This
is sordid, but not illegal or even unethical. It is also not unusual. I don’t
want to speculate on how many Presidential candidates or their staffs have
paid large sums to women with whom they had adulterous or otherwise
undignified relationships, but I’m sure, even outside of the secret sagas of
Clinton and the Kennedys, it is a very large number. That Donald Trump had
sexual adventures with women either physically or morally like Daniels was a
certainty years ago, even before the campaign brought to light his primitive
attitude towards women generally, which itself should have shocked no one.
He’s had three trophy wives, and presumably cheated on all of them. He
bought the Miss Universe Pageant, which is a pretty obvious tell. Donald
Trump has always embodied the life-style and attitudes of a spoiled playboy.
Thus this is yet another example of the “resistance,” and its disgraced
ally, the news media, trying to unseat Trump by pushing the narrative that
he’s really, really, really an unsavory character, as if that matters any
more. They are unable to accept that this man whom they find so repulsive
was elected anyway, and think that just repeating over and over and over
again how repulsive he is to them will somehow undo his election or change
anyone’s mind.
I’m also certain that when he says he never had a relationship with Stormy,
te President is lying. He is not, however, lying under oath (like Bill
Clinton did) in court, and he is not lying about what was falsely called a
“personal private relationship” when it was in fact an abusive, exploitative
and illegal workplace relationship, like Bill Clinton’s. This was a
personal, private relationship. Yes, a President lying to the American
people is serious, but those who are most eager to use the Stormy Daniels
scandal against Trump are the exact same people who waved off Bill Clinton’s
perjury on a similar topic with “Everybody lies about sex.” They inflicted
that outrageous rationalization on the culture, and yes, I want to see them
suffer for it. They own it, it’s theirs, and it should cling to them like a
barnacle. Their cynicism and hypocrisy is unbearable, and they should not be
allowed to suddenly grandstand with a new standard now.
It is also unconscionable for the Mueller investigation to bring this
self-promoting wannabe sex performer’s venal grab for fifteen minutes of
fame into its work. At least the Starr investigation had a crime to justify
exposing the Monica relationship, and it was a crime that took place while
Clinton was President. Even if Trump’s fixer’s payment to Stormy—who herself
may have been engaging in extortion—was an election law violation, it was
almost certainly a civil rather than a criminal breach, and one that took
place before the election. The remedy for such violations is a fine. Yes, I
know: the idea is to trap the President in an obstruction of justice
violation regarding a non-crime. Even though about 50% of the public has
been brainwashed into thinking this is grounds for impeachment, another 50%,
including me, will regard that strategy as an attempted coup. I would advise
Democrats not to tempt fate.
What’s going on here? A rich, horny guy cheated with a carnally-attractive
porn star for the thrill of it before he was in a Presidential race or
anticipated being in one. She attempted a shakedown, his fixer paid her, and
then, when she realized she could really cash in because the news media
would take any route to attack this President, she threw red meat to the
press, which immediately became a mob of National Enquirer clones. I care
that our journalism has deteriorated to such an extent. I care that a
partisan-manufactured effort to interfere with President Trump’s ability to
govern has dragged on for a year and is now stooping into this kind of muck
in desperation. I care that the political attention of the nation has been
distorted by a publicity-hungry predator like Daniels. Of course it was
stupid and reckless for Donald Trump to become involved with such a
creature, but again: it wasn’t out of character, and it happened before the
election. None of that is a surprise or news either, however.
Get back to me when this tabloid story involves substantive Presidential
conduct. Until then, I have more important matters to care about.
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Regarding The Stormy Daniels Affair
Ethics Alarms has not spent a lot of time or space discussing the Stormy
Daniels scandal, and the reason is quite simple. I don’t care about Stormy
Daniels, and I don’t care what the President did or didn’t do with Stormy
Daniels before he was President. What ever it was, it was not a crime, nor
did it take place while he was President of the United States. As a result,
the excessive coverage of this story is one more example of the press doing
whatever it can to undermine and diminish this President, out of personal
and partisan antipathy. The episode is embarrassing to the nation, and
harmful as well, but no other President would have his pre-candidacy conduct
obsessively covered like this. No talk late night talk show hosts induced
any of Bill Clinton’s past conquests to dish on national TV, with the
express desire of humiliating him and the First Lady. CNN’s carpet-bombing
with this story is Exhibit A on how far Ted Turner’s promising baby has
descended into squalor.
I assume that the porn star was paid hush money by sleazy Trump fixer
Michael Cohen, with or without Trump’s knowledge, but probably with. This
is sordid, but not illegal or even unethical. It is also not unusual. I don’t
want to speculate on how many Presidential candidates or their staffs have
paid large sums to women with whom they had adulterous or otherwise
undignified relationships, but I’m sure, even outside of the secret sagas of
Clinton and the Kennedys, it is a very large number. That Donald Trump had
sexual adventures with women either physically or morally like Daniels was a
certainty years ago, even before the campaign brought to light his primitive
attitude towards women generally, which itself should have shocked no one.
He’s had three trophy wives, and presumably cheated on all of them. He
bought the Miss Universe Pageant, which is a pretty obvious tell. Donald
Trump has always embodied the life-style and attitudes of a spoiled playboy.
Thus this is yet another example of the “resistance,” and its disgraced
ally, the news media, trying to unseat Trump by pushing the narrative that
he’s really, really, really an unsavory character, as if that matters any
more. They are unable to accept that this man whom they find so repulsive
was elected anyway, and think that just repeating over and over and over
again how repulsive he is to them will somehow undo his election or change
anyone’s mind.
I’m also certain that when he says he never had a relationship with Stormy,
te President is lying. He is not, however, lying under oath (like Bill
Clinton did) in court, and he is not lying about what was falsely called a
“personal private relationship” when it was in fact an abusive, exploitative
and illegal workplace relationship, like Bill Clinton’s. This was a
personal, private relationship. Yes, a President lying to the American
people is serious, but those who are most eager to use the Stormy Daniels
scandal against Trump are the exact same people who waved off Bill Clinton’s
perjury on a similar topic with “Everybody lies about sex.” They inflicted
that outrageous rationalization on the culture, and yes, I want to see them
suffer for it. They own it, it’s theirs, and it should cling to them like a
barnacle. Their cynicism and hypocrisy is unbearable, and they should not be
allowed to suddenly grandstand with a new standard now.
It is also unconscionable for the Mueller investigation to bring this
self-promoting wannabe sex performer’s venal grab for fifteen minutes of
fame into its work. At least the Starr investigation had a crime to justify
exposing the Monica relationship, and it was a crime that took place while
Clinton was President. Even if Trump’s fixer’s payment to Stormy—who herself
may have been engaging in extortion—was an election law violation, it was
almost certainly a civil rather than a criminal breach, and one that took
place before the election. The remedy for such violations is a fine. Yes, I
know: the idea is to trap the President in an obstruction of justice
violation regarding a non-crime. Even though about 50% of the public has
been brainwashed into thinking this is grounds for impeachment, another 50%,
including me, will regard that strategy as an attempted coup. I would advise
Democrats not to tempt fate.
What’s going on here? A rich, horny guy cheated with a carnally-attractive
porn star for the thrill of it before he was in a Presidential race or
anticipated being in one. She attempted a shakedown, his fixer paid her, and
then, when she realized she could really cash in because the news media
would take any route to attack this President, she threw red meat to the
press, which immediately became a mob of National Enquirer clones. I care
that our journalism has deteriorated to such an extent. I care that a
partisan-manufactured effort to interfere with President Trump’s ability to
govern has dragged on for a year and is now stooping into this kind of muck
in desperation. I care that the political attention of the nation has been
distorted by a publicity-hungry predator like Daniels. Of course it was
stupid and reckless for Donald Trump to become involved with such a
creature, but again: it wasn’t out of character, and it happened before the
election. None of that is a surprise or news either, however.
Get back to me when this tabloid story involves substantive Presidential
conduct. Until then, I have more important matters to care about.
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