Trump also assured Daniels that he and Melania didn’t “even sleep in the same room," she testified

After meeting the future president of the United States at a golf tournament in 2006, adult film star Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday that Donald Trump’s personal bodyguard asked if she would like to have dinner with the once-and-future Republican nominee.

“No, with an expletive in front,” Daniels said she told the aide in response, per NBC News. But she reconsidered after meeting with her publicist, she said, recalling their words: “If nothing else, you’ll get a great story” and “what’s the worst that could happen?”

But, according to Daniels, dinner never happened. When she got to Trump’s hotel room, she found him in pajamas – he later changed – and eager to discuss her work in the adult film industry, where she had risen from performer to director, and whether she had ever contracted and STD (“I’ve never tested positive for anything,” Daniels said).

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      Does anyone remember that Bill Clinton got impeached for a fucking blow job in the oval office and lying about it on national television?

      Yet we elect a president with multiple scandals, including paying a porn star hush, money for an affair while he was married. The hypocrisy in this country is ridiculous.

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        Does anyone remember that Bill Clinton got impeached for a fucking blow job in the oval office and lying about it on national television?

        He didn’t lie about it. He was very, very careful to make them define all their terms and then answered truthfully based on their exact definitions.

        He “did not have sexual relations with that woman” because he made them define what counted as sexual relations, and by their own definition a blowjob did not.

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          That’s a lie. Let’s not bullshit ourselves. Clinton got away with it because people have affairs. Especially people in power. He wasn’t smart about it. He just said what was believable.

          I don’t think he is even in the same hemisphere as Trump in terms of lying. But this was definitely a lie. I do think that the Republicans at the time were out to get him and it didn’t matter. But that’s completely different than Trump. That fucker lies worse than a rug.

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            Nobody believes that he didn’t have an affair with her. But he wasn’t being impeached for having an affair, he was being impeached for lying under oath. Which he very carefully did not do.

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        I’m not from your country, and Trump is a nightmare sub-human that needs to be put away, but it wasn’t just a blow job and lying about it on tv.

        -He (age 49) was her(age 21) boss; there is a level of coercion and power imbalance
        -He lied under oath, it wasn’t just on tv.

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        You are able to see hypocrisy because you value truth and integrity.

        A Repub values only white supremacist hierarchy, so the idea that they would condemn both or condemn neither is incomprehensible.

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        To this day I still think that doesn’t count as “sexual relations”. If one of my friends told me they had sex with someone and that’s all they did, I’d call them a liar.

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        It’s never been about morals. It’s about wielding power over others at any cost.

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      Republicans.

      Democrats aren’t putting forth any great candidates either but at least they’re not scraping the bottom of the humanity barrel for the worst piece of shits possible like republicans have been doing as of late.

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        It’s because he’s their creepy fucker.

        If Jesus came down from heaven and ran as a Democrat, these people would all still vote Trump.

        Do not underestimate the power of tribal instincts in social primates.

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      I mean it’s not even in the top 100 reasons why he should not have people vote for him

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        Exactly. If he’s kept out of the white house for a 2nd term because the biggest crime he’s committed is fucking a pornstar, our justice system is a failure.

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          If he’s kept out of office for a second term, I’ll consider that a win and keep on trying for the next one. Almost everything after achieving that one goal can be done after it is achieved, but if he does get a second term then virtually everything imaginable will be getting worse for the foreseeable future.

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          It’s not a crime to fuck them or to pay them to be silent about it.

          He’s on trial for fraud with where he got the money from which is funny.

          If the ‘billionaire’ paid for it out of pocket I don’t think anything that happened would be illegal.

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            It’s basically that he lied about what the payment was for. If he had filed it as something more accurate, there’d have been no problem.

            But he said it was for “retainer fees”, and that’s a misdemeanor.

            It was to conceal campaign finance violations; which as it’s another crime, makes it a felony.