Tuesday 20 March 2018

Is Stephanie Clifford a storm in a T-cup?

Pundits in Washington are beginning to say that Stephanie Clifford, otherwise known as Stormy Daniels, could be the one to force Donald Trump out of office rather than Robert Mueller. In other words, a sex scandal rather than Russia collusion scandal. Well I don't believe that for a moment but it's an interesting argument. Certainly Stormy with her curvacious shape is making headlines most days but without any details about what it was like to be with Trump. Please lawyers on both sides of the Stormy fence save us from any detail. Does anyone seriously want to know what she and Trump - allegedly - got up to if they had an affair as she claims? Not even Melania, in fact especially not Melania, would want to know the graphics. Sex could bring a president down but not Trump, unless there is any evidence that he treated her badly. But the allegations refer to a situation before he was president. It's not like he has been caught behind the door in the Oval Office with this woman or with any woman. And, of course, there is a precedent for this sort of behaviour in another era which I won't raise here. So whatever Stormy Daniels comes up with if she ever makes it onto "60 Minutes", we will all be able to make a judgment abut Trump's behaviour. But it's not going to end with an impeachment. That I can guarantee. So it's a question of whether Mueller is going to be the one with the impeachment or enforced resignation card up his sleeve. If Mueller takes another year to complete his investigation he is going to have enough words, condemnatory or not, to fill a blockbuster best seller. But as I have said before, while a number of Trump accolytes will end up in prison, Trump himself will survive. Probably. But maybe there really is more to this drama than even the New York Times and Washington Post have revealed so far. Just maybe there is a spectacular scandal waiting in the wings. I only say this after reading and rereading the extraordinary tweet written the other day by John Brennan, Barack Obama's CIA director. This is what he wrote: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude and political corruption becomes known, you will take yur rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe (the sacked deputy director of the FBI), but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you." I haven't checked every history book but I venture to say that that is the most devastating comment about a sitting president ever made by a former director of the CIA. What does Brennan know that we don't know? Will he ever reveal it? Every American has a right to know.

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