And reveals relatively little.
| | | | | The much-hyped 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels aired Sunday, and did not reveal much more than we already know about the alleged brief sexual relationship between the porn actress and Donald Trump a decade before he became president. Daniels, who signed a non-disclosure agreement about the affair just days before the 2016 election, says she met Trump just a few times and had sex with him only once, at their first tryst. She repeated these and other details about their relationship from her 2011 interview with In Touch magazine, which was not published (at the urging of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen) until earlier this year.
There were a couple of new claims from Daniels in the interview, however, regarding the aftermath of her encounter with Trump. Daniels claims that in 2011, shortly after her interview with In Touch, a man approached her in Las Vegas as she was putting her infant daughter in her carseat. “And a guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.’ And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It'd be a shame if something happened to her mom.’ And then he was gone,” she told Anderson Cooper. Asked if she ever saw the man again, Daniels said she did not but that she would “100 percent” be able to recognize him still. “If he walked in this door right now, I would instantly know.”
Daniels also claims that earlier this year, after the 2016 NDA was uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, she felt coerced by her former lawyer into signing a statement in which she said the affair did not happen. “The exact sentence used was, ‘They can make your life hell in many different ways,’” she said, adding that she believed the “they” referred to Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. |
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| Trump White House Tweet of the Day
From the communications director for First Lady Melania Trump:
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Mark It Down—“He did say that he’s expecting to make one or two major changes to his government very soon, and that’s going to be it. Now, other White House sources, not the president, tell me that Veterans’ Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is likely to depart the cabinet very soon.” —Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media and a very close friend of President Donald Trump, March 25, 2018
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Remember what we reported here on March 16: “The president is also considering removing a number of his cabinet officials, several of whom he’s grown concerned about over news reports that they have misused taxpayer dollars for travel or personal luxuries. Trump’s list of most imminent departures includes Ryan Zinke at Interior, Ben Carson at Housing and Urban Development, and David Shulkin at Veterans Affairs. . . . The coverage has apparently embarrassed Trump for undercutting his campaign pledge to ‘drain the swamp.’”
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| | President Trump has decided to reverse last week’s decision to add attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing to the legal team handling the Russia investigation, his attorney Jay Sekulow said on Sunday.
President Trump has decided to reverse last week’s decision to add attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing to the legal team handling the Russia investigation, his attorney Jay Sekulow said on Sunday.
Trump’s decision to hire the husband-wife legal duo, announced last Monday, was seen by many as a move signifying Trump’s growing resolve to fight more aggressively against an investigation he has repeatedly described as “fake news.” In his television appearances and in speeches this year, diGenova had repeatedly railed against Robert Mueller’s investigation as an FBI plot to frame the president. His hiring also led to the resignation of John Dowd, Trump’s previous top lawyer who had counseled a conservative, cooperative course in handling Mueller.
DiGenova may have represented a better temperamental fit for Trump’s new Mueller strategy than Dowd, but Trump evidently decided he wasn’t a personal fit: The New York Times reported that Trump thought he lacked “personal chemistry” with the two lawyers. | |
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| 2018 Watch—On MSNBC Sunday, Kasie Hunt interviewed Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat who represents Missouri, which Trump won in 2016. Despite polls that suggest a Democratic wave is possible nationally, McCaskill doesn’t sound like someone taking chances against her likely Republican opponent, Josh Hawley. Hunt asked the two-term senator about Hillary Clinton’s recent comments suggesting Americans who voted for Trump did so because they were motivated by racism and sexism. Those comments recently made their way into a Hawley ad, connecting Clinton to McCaskill.
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