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https://www.yahoo.com/news/carl-bernstein-apos-donald-trump-223459560.html
President Donald Trump is used to avoiding accountability. Whether in his past business life or his current political one, there is always something or someone else to blame. But now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is closing in, legendary journalist Carl Bernstein says Trump may finally have to face the music.
“Donald Trump for the first time in his life is cornered,” Bernstein told host Brian Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday morning.
“As a businessman, he always could bully his way out of a corner,” Bernstein said. “He always could buy his way out, cheat his way out. He is boxed in by Mueller, and the people around him know that he is.”
Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York released documents Friday that implicate Trump in at least one crime. Specifically, they believe that he directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to break campaign finance laws by paying off two women he’d had affairs with ― porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal ― in an effort to protect his presidential bid.
“It’s clear that Mueller is now connecting the dots between a massive obstruction intended to hide the truth about the Trump campaign, Trump, his business organization, and his family from the investigators,” Bernstein said.
Check out Bernstein’s full interview with Stelter in the video above.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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A couple of those ever popular NDAs is all Mueller has??? Damn, what happened to all of that Russian collusion and obstruction of justice bullshit???
It is odd indeed that a couple of high profile experienced dudes like Mueller and Bernstein would not know that NDAs are legal and binding, and that people sign them every day. For example, apply for a job with a high tech company or a manufacturing company and see if an NDA is not part of the application. An NDA is often part of a severance package. Or, if you are working for a company in a non-sensitive capacity and you are transferred into a department dealing with trade secrets and sensitive info, you will sign an NDA.
Apparently, these two stellar paragons of virtue are not aware that congress critters created a slush fund with taxpayer money for the specific purpose of paying off those with whom they've had illicit affairs.
Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels occurred in 2006. In 2011, well before he was a presidential candidate, the gossip site, In Touch, claimed that Trump and Daniels had had a fling. In Touch had a long interview with Daniels that year, so why didn't they publish the story? Stormy Daniels was certain Trump would lose the election, so she figured her story would be worthless.
Ten years after she signed the NDA agreement, Trump won the election and Daniels saw the only opportunity left to make a buck and slander Trump, so she came out with her story. When she signed the NDA in 2006, she believed her porn career would be ruined if she refused.
Cohen paid Daniels the $130,000 fee out of his law firm's account and Trump reimbursed him out his own private funds, not the campaign finance war chest.
No law was broken. Daniels hired the sleaze shyster, Avenatti, or he hired her, no one knows for sure how that went down, being that she is a porn star, possibly he accepted her case pro boner. They filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump. Get that, a babe that sells sex and a corrupt lawyer trying to defame a duly elected US president. There's a joke in there somewhere, the punch line is that a federal judge tossed her case and ordered her to pay Trump's legal fees. Might be the first time in history that a whore had to pay back her client.
As reported in the New Yorker, Trump's alleged affair with Karen McDougall began in late 2006 and ended in 2007, nine months later. No NDA was signed and no money changed hands. This allegation of campaign finance violations is a non-starter.
Trying to find something credible at Yahoo or HuffPo is like trying to find ice cubes in Death Valley in July.