BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE
An ongoing saga continues to surround former President Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels. Will it never end? Trump may or may not be indicted by the time you read this, but who knows? Who isn’t tired of hearing about an alleged sexual encounter between these two?
Former President Trump denied the encounter ever occurred, but Daniels said it did. Who is telling the truth? Who should we believe? Is there proof of this alleged “affair” or sexual encounter?
Does anyone have a video of the Trump and Daniels encounter? Apparently Daniels is big on videos for money, participating in encounters that most of us really do not want to see. I’m sure some people do since pornography is an international addictive problem that destroys more lives than we will ever know. Even if it existed, we certainly do not want to see any such “encounter” between Daniels and Trump. Even so, how do you prove such an event took place? We are back again to “he said, she said.”
President Trump has had his feet to the fire because he allegedly paid $130,000 to Daniels to keep quiet about the “encounter.” The problem is unclear. Is he alleged to have paid the money out of campaign funds raised for his presidential bid in 2016? Or is this about being an amount of money beyond the legal campaign donation cap? And how could it ever be considered a campaign donation? Does any of it make sense?
As much money as Trump has, would he not have just paid her out of his petty cash fund? If Daniels and Trump had a dispute, then how is it illegal to have settled a dispute? People do it every day.
Trump made millions just from his reality television show “The Apprentice” on NBC. I always figured this is one reason NBC hates Trump so much. He made them a lot of money, and the show was still making major money when he quit to run for president. Money and greed color everything.
Why don’t they just produce the check written to Daniels? Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who served time in prison, allegedly gave the money to Daniels and was reimbursed by Trump. Did he write a check from his personal account? How did Trump reimburse Cohen? Did he go to the bank and get a cashier’s check? Just go back and do an audit. How credible is Cohen? Does Cohen know for sure which account the money came from?
In 1974, Jerry Springer (the TV reality show star) resigned from the Cincinnati City council because he had written two checks to two different prostitutes in Northern Kentucky. The controversy took over his life, but he was later reelected to the city council and even later served as mayor. In one of his commercials I remember seeing, he said, “I made a mistake. I paid a prostitute with a check.” He actually wrote two checks. One was for $50 and the other was for $25. He would go on to serve as Cincinnati’s mayor from 1977-1978. But wait, he admitted to it, and he didn’t pay it from campaign or government funds.
It looks like if Trump could get in trouble for paying for an “encounter,” then Daniels would be in trouble for prostitution. But wait, she didn’t collect money for an alleged encounter with Trump; she got money to be quiet about the encounter with Trump.
Is this not blackmail? Are there not any consequences for blackmail?
Apparently, there is more money to be made from being quiet about “encounters” than actually selling oneself for an “encounter.”
She did reportedly receive a handsome book royalty check to talk about her life that attorney Michael Avenatti stole. He is now serving time in prison for defrauding clients and tax evasion.
There is probably more that will be said about this alleged “encounter.”
This proves it doesn’t work to pay porn stars hush money because they take the money and still tell everybody.
Dr. Glenn Mollette is a graduate of numerous schools, including Georgetown College, Southern and Lexington Seminaries in Kentucky. He is the author of 13 books, including “Uncommon Sense,” “Spiritual Chocolate” series, “Grandpa’s Store,” “Minister’s Guidebook Insights from a Fellow Minister.” His column is published weekly in over 600 publications in all 50 states. Listen every weekday at 8:56 a.m. on X.M. radio 131, visit him online at glennmollette.com. “Grandpa’s Store” is a fun and adventure-filled story from the perspective of a child and young teen in the late 50s and early 70s, an era of simpler American small-community life. Available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.