You knew that Stormy Daniels was just the tip of the iceberg.
According to a new report in The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow, Donald Trump had a consensual affair with another woman, Karen McDougal, for nine months starting in 2006. Trump and McDougal met at a party at the Playboy Mansion following an episode of The Apprentice.
Trump got McDougal’s number and the pair began talking by phone. At their first date, in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the pair “got naked + had sex,” according to McDougal’s written notes. Afterwards, ever the gentleman, Trump offered McDougal money.
“I looked at him (+ felt sad) + said, ‘No thanks – I’m not ‘that girl.’ I slept w/you because I like you – NOT for money’ – He told me ‘you are special,’ ” McDougal wrote.
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McDougal says she saw Trump every time he was in Los Angeles, which “was a lot.” She says Trump flew her around the country for public events, but never paid for her travel directly, always preferring to reimburse her after she paid for it. Trump also promised to buy her an apartment, an offer he never followed through on.
The affair petered out because McDougal felt guilty about the affair and also because she was offended by comments that Trump made, including calling her mother “an old hag” and commenting that another woman who had a relationship with an African-American man “liked big black dick.”
McDougal’s description of the details of the relationship match those of Stormy Daniels. Just as interesting, however, is the effort to buy McDougal off.
McDougal decided in 2016 that she had a story that was worth some money. She ended up with American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, which paid her $150,000 for the rights to her story.
Which never ran, of course.
David Pecker, the inaptly named publisher, is a close friend of Trump’s. The idea of buying a story in order to ensure it never sees light of day is a favorite tactic of the tabloids, known as “catch and kill,” which can then use the story as leverage for bigger stories or better access from the celebrity in question.
McDougal says she was promised a fitness column in the Enquirer. Like the apartment, it never materialized.
So now we have two instances of Trump reportedly having affairs while married to Melania. And two instances of the women getting hush money. It’s beginning to look like a pattern.
How many more examples can their possibly be? And how much longer will the religious right turn a blind eye to Trump’s extramarital behavior? We don’t mean the sex, but the lying and cover up that seems to inevitably follow.
ChrisK
Can you even imagine the right wing uproar if that was Obama?
tnguy222
100% factual comment ^
captainburrito
I still laugh when some Trump supporters say he was chosen by God. I’m thinking… if it is like that story about destruction of Sodom, and the best man he could find to represent him in the US was Trump… he’d might as well go ahead and destroy it.
am_psi
Really? Because I’m pretty sure Bill Clinton destroyed any notion of superior presidential morality when he was getting his d sucked by an intern in the Oval Office. Or with all those sexual assaults he committed.
ChrisK
Yeah, and he got raked over the coals and impeached for it.
Kangol
@am_psi, Monica Lewinsky was not an “intern” when she and President Clinton began their affair; she had finished the internship. Second, not a single sexual assault against President Clinton was ever proved, whereas Donald J. Con Man Trump bragged about forcibly kissing women on the lips and grabbing them by their “p*ssy.” He admitted to committing sexual assault, saying he could get away with it. In addition, his first wife alleged he raped her and pulled out her hair; other women have alleged he raped, groped or forcibly kissed them; and one woman has alleged he raped her, in the company of a convicted pedophile, when she was 13. Not a single charge against President Clinton comes close to any of this. And, as ChrisK noted, were anything like this linked to President Obama, the right wing would have been hysterical by this point about impeachment, imprisonment, you name it.
mhoffman953
The difference between this situation and President Clinton’s was that he did those things while in office. It’s never been a secret that Trump has banged tons of women, he’s admitted to a lot of it during his various Howard Stern show appearances.
None of which impacts how well someone is as a President.
If the left want to say that we can’t allow someone like this in the White House, then why did they shill so much for letting Bill Clinton back in the White House? If the left wants to argue that this makes someone a bad President, then will they say that Bill Clinton or JFK were a bad Presidents?
I don’t see how anyone’s sex life is relevant to their capabilities on a job, unless they aren’t doing the job to have sex.
JungleBoi
How many people screamed about “character” when it was Clinton, then hated Obama and now claim that Trump has character? Can you spell hypocrisy? The Trump supporters, so-called Conservatives, and the “Religious right” dont need to spell it – they define it.
Aires the Ram
Let’s see, Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe (et. al.), Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski (et. al.), Donald Trump and (?). Seems we’re being a bit selective now, aren’t we? Oh wait!!!! My mistake!! Mea Culpa!! This isn’t about Presidential affairs at all, it’s about how all of you hate President Trump so. There’s just so many ways you marxists/socialists/communists push this narrative now, that I lose track of them all! Looks like ‘Russia-Russia-Russia’ and the Meuller “investigation” has fallen flat on it’s ass though, hasn’t it? So what’s the next angle to vilify YOUR (and my) President?
Nuttypea
The real reason he gets away with his affairs is that there’s nothing illegal about having an affair.
Paco
True, but it does expose the family values Trump supporters as hypocrites that now openly embrace adultery that their bible says will be punishable by death. I hope Trump keeps getting away with having loose morals, because his evangelical base will continue to shred their moral authority by supporting him.
Aires the Ram
Bingo! Funny there’s no mention of all the affairs that go on in Hollywood. I guess because most of Hollyweird is a bunch of marxists liberals, it’s ok to just overlook that inconvenient little truth. But the truth of it all is, there’s nothing new about people having affairs. If you like the person that is found in an affair, you look the other way, if you don’t like them, you scream from the rooftops, clutch your purse and run home to your imagined perfection. Aren’t slow news days fun?
scotshot
@Aires the Ram
@Paco
Hollywood!
Hollywood!
Hollywood.
This is true. But, this article is not about Hollywood. It’s about your hero Trumpf.
(it should be noted that Trumpf was a major person in Hollywood when his show was on TV. Forgot that did you?)
Trumpf is the person who you have given the fate of America to hold in his little hands, and he’s proved he isn’t qualified to do so.
Along with the affairs he’s had, he’s beaten one wife, raped her and pulled her hair out. He also paraded affairs right under her nose and one time took both his then wife and pregnant mistress to the same resort to see what would happen when they met up, it wasn’t pretty. another he’s had multiple affairs with other women – this two months after his wife had given birth to their only son together. I guess the thought of Melania’s blood turned him off.
This week he praised men who are both wife beaters. In Trumpf’s universe beating your wife is A-OK.
I totally agree that having affairs is not against the law. Neither is being a piece of shit.
Paco
@scotshot – He is not my hero. I’m just happy that he wipes his butt with the Christian bible and gets embraced by the evangelicals for it. He is their downfall politically and they are too vacant-eyed to realize it.
DCguy
It IS illegal however to use laundered funds, funds taken from a charity account or campaign funds to pay off a Porn star to stay quiet about the affair. But nice try.
captainburrito
If you were Melania, would you be furious? I’d be like thank god someone else is giving me some respite from him.
frankcar1965
Yea, and he’s been paying her too for a long time, she’s nothing but an old whore after all, more like a cow who popped out a calf for him. She probably wishes he’d find some other woman to bang, like maybe Sarah Sasquatch Sanders, bet she has a big old Puussy he can grab.
Jaxton
Women will often accept cash to demean themselves in front of men – it’s a well known fact.
If only the liberal media had been as curious about Bill Clinton’s affair. I remember how the liberal media censored reports of the Bill-Monica sleaze and that it only went national because Matt Drudge publicized it.
Kangol
You’re not telling the truth, unless you are mis-remembering. The “liberal media” harangued President Clinton non-stop. Democrats took to the floor of the US Senate and House to denounce him. (Cf. Joe Lieberman and others.) Liberal Democrats and liberal newspapers even called upon Clinton to resign, and the Republicans, including a number of notorious hypocrites like Jim Livingston and Newt Gingrich attacked him, and the GOP House and Senate impeached him, though they did not have the votes to remove him from office. Did you forget all of this? Nevertheless, a majority of Americans did not support impeachment and stood by President Clinton, who maintained strong approval ratings throughout the ordeal.
PinkoOfTheGange
Newsweek remembers it as waiting on verification and refers to it as a scooped scoop.
scotshot
Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky ran from 1995 – 1997 and came to light in 1996.
F** N*** came on the air in 1996.
As such, there was no real liberal and conservative media. I’d say that 90-95 per cent of the breaking news only came from “Liberal Media” (There were conservative outlets but they were pretty much insignificant).
DCguy
Oh look, the anti-lgbt troll account trying to deflect the topic of the story.
frankcar1965
Lewinsky was nothing but two willing lips, he just want that BJ, even he wouldn’t bang that fat cuunt, nasty bitch who kept the dress with spunk on it. She wasn’t stupid she was gonna sell it and make some cash. But blew up in her face, pardon the pun!!! Now that bitch is making speeches and still cashing in, innocent indeed. And I hope that other bitch Linda Tripp gets hit by a truck.
leobaga
Yawn. Even if this is true, which I doubt it is, we dont care since this was consensual sex between 2 adults years ago. Wow shocker. We elected Trump to work on improving the country.
Notright
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scotshot
@Notright
You’re referring to Trump’s “Fake Money”.
scotshot
@leobaga
When will the improvement begin?
Thanks for the thoughts from the Russian side.
DCguy
And another Trump Troll desperate to deflect the story.
And don’t you love how they all leave out the possibly illegal payoff to Stormy Daniels? If it was legal the lawyer wouldn’t be lying about it’s origin.
Notright
Absolutely outrageous. Liberals love Bill Clinton even though he got his d sucked in the oval office by an intern. Where were the feminists crying rape because of the extreme power imbalance? But yeah Trump is a monster because he fed a porn star. Right… Well for those of us who support our president we’re giving away a Trump Commemorative coin here just be subscribing to the rainbow right https://www.therainbowright.com/trump-coin/
Heywood Jablowme
You are definitely “not right”! I hope you can get another month’s supply of opioids with that coin?
Anyway the #MeToo harpies have banished Bill Clinton too, guess you missed that part.
therealzam
Word to the wise, rainbowright.com matches the pattern of Russian style fake news sites in a simple 5m audit of its content. Don’t feed this troll as your responses can easily be turned against you personally and our community. Learn how to evaluate the quality of information presented to you as the US government, social networking sites, reputable news outlets & bloggers / vloggers. Again, this is a classic example of the methods used by those attempting to disrupt our political system.
PS: A commemorative Trump coin for signing up? Come on, these guys couldn’t write something more ridiculous and funny if they tried.
mhoffman953
@therealzam
“…matches the pattern of Russian style fake news sites in a simple 5m audit of its content”
What exactly is a “Russian style fake news site”? Just because it’s right leaning, does it now automatically mean it’s Russian propaganda?
I don’t think you actually read what the Russians are reported to have done in 2016. The bulk of their discourse happened after the election. The Russians also created a “Muslims for Hillary” campaign as well as an “LGBTs for Bernie” group as well
DCguy
4th Trump troll of this article trying to deflect the topic.
You can tell how nervous the Trumpsphere is about a story by how many different Troll screenames they send in to change the topic.
frankcar1965
Focking bitch wanted it and wanted some dick too but she was too fat and ugly, the lips were just enough though. I hope her uterus explodes.
Brody
Rather than jumping up and down insisting that Trump is the antichrist, Democrats would do well to address the wildfire currently engulfing their own party.
Heywood Jablowme
Fox News must be even more delusional than I realized. Now they’re imagining a “wildfire” engulfing the Dems? Well, most Fox viewers are whacked out on opioids.
mhoffman953
@HeywoodJablowme
The Democratic party is hemorrhaging money. They have a lot of debt and are only $200,000 from insolvency
DCguy
And the 5th Screename from the one anti-lgbt troll “Mo Bro” on here desperately trying to change the topic.
NCSilverBear
Trump gets away with this — like his other immoral &/or illegal indiscretions — because he can. We are a Nation of people made up of lying, white, money & power hungry, 1%’ers who rule in a quasi-feudal system where the rich get rich and the poor get poorer. Trump got to the top of this chain by being the best at what he does — snake salesmanship. He’ll stay at the top because he continues to be the best at what he does. Not for Country — but for his own glory, wealth and best interests. As long as he can continue to keep his minions in line and supporting him, taking the fall for him, lying for him — paying off the ones who don’t, then he will continue to get what he wants — just like a dictator. History is populated with such men and the countries they rule/d.
mhoffman953
@NCSilverBear
I stopped reading once you listed being “white” in a list of negative adjectives. Being white or any color shouldn’t be used as a disparaging comment.
scotshot
@Brody
Trump is not the antichrist. He’s just a useful fool of which there are many.
Wildfire? Where?
Do you have even 1 link?
Brody
Blah blah blah white people suck.
Blah blah blah men are evil.
Blah blah blah rich people won’t share.
Translation: “I wish I was a rich white guy (kinda like Donald Trump), but since I have no motivation to make a better life for myself, I choose to feel entitled and blame successful people for my failures and shortcomings.”
Your kind cracks me up.
Brody
scotshot –
Here ya go, straight from the mouth of the DNC’s biggest cheerleaders, CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/politics/dnc-rnc-fundraising-election-day/index.html
He BGB
But when will Trump say anything about us needing to stop the Russians from influencing our elections? Not a word. He used that info as vindication that he had no collusion like he doesn’t care if Russia elects our officials. That fat narcisstic turd. Very scary whether he had an affair or Bill Clinton stained a blue dress or anything…..this is end of democracy as we know it.
Paco
He won’t because that would be admitting that his own presidency isn’t legitimate.
mhoffman953
@HeBGB & @Paco
What specifically did Russia do to “influence” the election or to solely help President Trump?
I doubt either of you read the criminal complaint against the 13 Russians who were charged. If you did, you will read that they didn’t shill for any one candidate. They created social media ads for Hillary, Bernie, and Trump. They even pushed BLM hashtags. Additionally, the criminal complaint cites that the Russians created the “Not My President” campaign to sow discord.
So if you push the “Not My President” hashtag, then you’re pushing Russian propaganda on the American people.
Kangol
@He BGB, just wait. We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg with Mueller’s indictments and convictions of the Russian conspirators. mhoffman953, whom I would have tagged as someone who loves the US and supports our democracy, is now carrying water for a hostile foreign power in his reply. The puzzle pieces are all there, and Mueller and the FBI, the NY Attorney General, and others are putting them together. Just ask yourself, if Trump did nothing wrong with Russia, if Russia had no influence on the 2016 election, why did Trump and so many around him repeatedly lie about Russian contacts? Flynn even lied to the FBI, as did Papadopoulos? Why? Did they not realize not only the US, but our allies might be listening in to their shenanigans? His go all the way before 2015, when he announced he was running. I mean, wasn’t he saying he might run in 2016 back in 2012 and 2013? When did he trademark “Make America Great Again”? Hmmm. It won’t be pretty when the truth all comes out (and he can’t hide or obfuscate forever)!
mhoffman953
@Kangol
I’m merely stating what was released by Rod Rosenstein. I suggest you read the criminal complaints as it will explain what exactly these 13 Russians did.
Plus, I do support our democracy which is why I respect the results of a democratic election and accept Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Those in the streets who scream at the sky are the ones who do not support our democracy just because they think “it was her turn”.
leobaga
Happy President’s day everyone. What a great time to be alive. #MAGA
frankcar1965
Dirty Russians carry TB.
DCguy
My My My, the anti-lgbt , Pro-Trump troll used 5 of his screenames in here. Sounds like the story hit a nerve.