In an interview on MSNBC’s AM Joy, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said that the president’s silence on the Stormy Daniels controversy speaks volumes about what dirt the adult film star may have on him.
“Why is Donald Trump treating Stormy Daniels differently than the 18 other women who brought nonconsensual claims against him?” Wine-Banks pointed out, noting that he hasn’t waged the same negative against Daniels that he often does against other women.
The key reason for that? Daniels may have concrete evidence against Trump.
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Wine-Banks said:
I think we have to look at a few other things, which is why is Donald Trump treating Stormy Daniels differently than the 18 other women who brought nonconsensual claims against him? He has not said anything as negative about her and has not attacked her, which suggests to me that she does have something serious in terms of evidence against him. That’s what we should be looking at, as well as remembering that this is hush money. Hush money is part of a coverup. That’s what an obstruction of justice is. That’s what gets presidents in trouble. It was one of the major things that brought down President Nixon, was paying hush money to keep the defendant from telling the truth about who had hired them. I think there’s a lot here to be uncovered yet.
Trump’s silence on Stormy Daniels speaks volumes
It’s puzzling why Trump has not taken his usual approach to dealing with yet another allegation involving his sex life. But as Wine-Banks noted on Saturday, there is hush money, legal agreements and cover-ups involved now, meaning it clearly rises above the usual he-said-she-said dispute.
In other words, Trump can’t hate tweet his way out of this one, and he seems to understand that.
As this explosive scandal continues to unfold and finally garner the media attention it has deserved all along, it remains to be seen if – like previous controversies – it will fade into the background, or if the president and his campaign will pay a serious price for what appear to be campaign finance violations.
Regardless, one thing is clear: Trump’s behavior surrounding this sex scandal is far different from the others he had endured during his time in politics, and that suggests he knows something bad is coming.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
