Even with the wrinkle of hush money, I don't care. If Trump propositioned someone for consensual sex --even kinky consensual sex with a porn star-- and then paid her to keep quiet about it, that's fine. It's his money, and if he wants to spend it keeping sex workers quiet about his pastimes, I'm fine with that. When it comes to sex, it's only the predatory behavior that concerns me.
But is it alright for him to lie about it to the public ? Is it okay to have a POTUS who is sensitive enough about the his sex life to show that he could be subjected to blackmail. Because hush money and blackmail payments aren't that far apart. At that point we are talking about whether or not the blackmail claims in the dossier could be true and whether or not our POTUS is under the thumb of a foreign govt.
You go suck his dick then....
How could I when Putin is leading him around by it ? Probably by the hand that has that stolen Superbowl ring on it.
all while POTUS, yep
Ideally, politicians wouldn't lie about their sex lives. But I don't care much about that, either. In theory, some affairs could be so devastating to a politician's appeal to his base that the blackmail risk would be very real. If, for example, Ted Cruz is secretly gay, his homosexual affairs would utterly destroy his political career, which is almost entirely based on his holier-than-thou schtick, and I'm sure he'd be willing to do almost anything to keep them from the public. But with Trump, do you really think anyone who hasn't already decided the guy is a monster would change their minds just based on the idea that he has three-ways with porn stars? He's already a well-known womanizer and a deeply seedy individual, so threatening to reveal details of that isn't going to have all that much power, is it? The kind of money he allegedly paid out is convenience money, for someone with his resources, so I don't see it as evidence he's terribly concerned about that kind of thing coming out. Even the story about prostitutes peeing on him isn't the kind of thing I can see rattling his constituency... they know the guy is vile and they don't care. I think they think about him the same way ancient peoples thought about their kings. They simply accept that the sovereign is above the rules they'd apply to anyone else.
Yeah, California managed to even drive away the porn industry!
You don't see evidence of his concern about the dossier ? He sure has hell has disparaged the pee claim enough time to make me believe he's concerned about it. His narcissism is off the charts. The last thing a guy like that wants is his foibles made public. His constant lying about even the littlest things that most people wouldn't be concerned with tells you that. It's not that calculated for him. He doesn't care about his base other than feeding his ego with their praise because if feeds his need for that.
Perhaps you're right, in his particular case, but I'm still not comfortable with the precedent of treating people's consensual sex lives as matters of public attention simply based on the supposed concern about blackmail. It would need to be a pretty compelling case of blackmail risk for me to override the ordinary principle that what a guy does with his genitals in his private life is his owned damned business, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult.
We aren't talking about a normal politician. We aren't even talking about a normal person. I believe his policies are based on Obama having joked about him at the correspondent's dinner and he'll destroy the lives of millions to sooth his own ego. So I don't doubt he'd betray the entire country for it either.
Just like Arnold, they'll be back, making movies. Where else can a young person come to fulfill their dreams of stardom, only to end up doing porn.
Porn is about commercial reproductions of sex, not enjoyment of it.
simple, stay the hell out of Hollyweird California
That's solid advice, not followed by many.
I was right !
There must be hundreds of people in a position to blackmail Trump. Throughout the world.
as with YOU
Especially in the Kremlin. So far he's bending over backwards to pay up with Vlad. So the stuff must really be damaging.
You and bugsy know much about blackmail...........hummmmmmm
Is this your way of crying Hillary when the caught, just like you teabagger messiah ?
