Sweet Jesus.
Because the news cycle isn’t crazy enough, we have to have this lunacy tossed backed into the forefront of our consciousness.
A guy who looks like Broidy and a playmate. Sure. Right. Ok. Fine. Whatevs.
pass the brain-bleach por favor.
Well, that’s interesting, since the rumor is Trump is the real affair-haver and Broidy was covering for him. Abortion involved too, wasn’t there? More tawdriness, four months before the midterms. Monetize this, Shera! The time has come!
These people all deserve each other. I don’t have sympathy for a single one of them.
Playboy still exists?
Dontcha think Trump is the father?
Playboy model/no condom/same “lawyers”/same NDA form w/same pseudonyms. Broidy has never explicitly said he was the person who impregnated Bechard.
Broidy has nothing to lose if that is the case.
Hopefully the lady was smart enough to save the aborted fetus, that DNA may save the future of our Supreme Court.
So that’s three payoffs of porn stars/ playboy playmates in the months before the election. That we know of.
Or could prove it some other way. (Shudder.)
It’s gearing up to be a lit Infrastructure Week.
If this has been done the way it’s reported, Broidy is almost as stupid as trump. No judgment by either a court or an arbitrator that the agreement has been breached, but a decision to breach the contract himself.
On the other hand, we know the story’s not going to come out in the national enquirer.
Isn’t the photo Cohen?
“According to a Sunday Wall Street Journal report, Broidy agreed last year to pay Playboy model Shera Bechard $1.6 million in installments in exchange for her silence about their alleged affair.”
Thank you for at least putting “alleged” before affair, which is more than what most news stories about this episode do. In reality, Paul Campos has established pretty conclusively that Broidy was covering for Trump, who was actually the one who had the affair. Given also that there was an abortion involved and with Roe v Wade on the chopping block, the timing here is exquisite.
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If this has been done the way it’s reported, Broidy is almost as stupid as trump. No judgment by either a court or an arbitrator that the agreement has been breached, but a decision to breach the contract himself.
[/quote]If, as some speculate/suggest/have proof of, Broidy entered into the agreement as a favor to cover for Trump, then Broidy can not turn to the courts to get out of the deal lest he be really involved in an actionable fraud. Up till now he might just be the person through whom the money is flowing to Ms. Bechard. Is “D.D.” in this particular NDA actually identified and named as the father, and did Broidy sign the agreement as such? I’ve lost those details if they were ever known for sure. A slimey, but perhaps not illegal arrangement to protect Trump, but Broidy wouldn’t want a court looking too hard at it if he’s still involved. Better to try to walk away … quickly. I think Broidy sees what’s coming as do his real lawyers.
I Be Best do U?
One of the worst kept secrets in this scandal is that Broidy didn’t have the affair with Bechard and did not impregnate her, Trump did. By breaking that hush money agreement citing a breach of contract, he is allowing Bechard to counterclaim that his failure to make a payment as required by the terms of that agreement is also a breach of contract. In addition, Bechard may argue that Broidy’s claim of breach is unjustified and in bad faith.
That sequence of events would enable Bechard to speak publicly about the truth of what happened with respect to the situation covered by the hush agreement and she would not face liability for having done so.
That Avenatti is involved and has given this subtle hint tells us that he has the evidence, or at least confirmable knowledge, that Broidy was acting as Trump’s cover for this relationship.
At a time when Roe v Wade is under mortal threat, a scandal involving a sitting President having had an illicit affair resulting in pregnancy, and then covering up the affair and subsequent abortion would be a dominant story and one that would cast the SCOTUS appointment under a white hot glare. It could not be more politically worse for the GOP from the standpoint of hypocrisy to have a POTUS who took advantage of Roe v Wade to shield himself from embarrassment taking away a woman’s right to choose.
Then there’s also the matter of the agreement itself. It looks illegal. It also looks to be an illegal agreement drawn up for the purpose of providing Trump a thing of value for his election campaign. It looks like a violation of federal election laws, as this was likely done to avoid political embarrassment.
When we talk of “infrastructure” which infrastructure are you referring to, physical structures like airports, shipping ports, and roads? Or are you referring to the very structure of our Country’s laws, procedures, norms?
Ummm, isn’t the best way to walk away quickly and quietly to simply pay the woman the hush money and then STFU about it?
Your analysis is impeccable, as always, but I can guarantee that evidence Trump paid for an abortion will be adduced as more proof for the need to ban abortion—because some weak men will momentarily fall prey to the desire for an easy fix. The tragedy that Trump didn’t get to increase his beautiful family will be mentioned.
Nothing is beneath these people, or too silly to try.
Also, something like the post mass shooting excuse will be used: “Now is not the time to talk about X”.