Today’s story involves a woman who ran a high-end prostitution ring in New York City, “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was running as a Libertarian for New York City comptroller when she was arrested on drug charges, testifying before a grand jury this week in the Trump Russia probe, according to NBC News.
She was questioned by a lead investigator about former Trump adviser Roger Stone and Russian collusion.
Davis told NBC in July that she had no knowledge of Russian collusion, but she was called by someone on the Mueller team and believed it was related to Roger Stone, for whom she worked for many years.
Davis told NBC in early August that she has been working for Roger since 2010 “doing web design and writing position papers.”
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Position papers? Odd thing for a criminal to be doing, but maybe not in this Republican Party.
Davis and Stone have actually a very strange history with the former Governor Eliot Spitzer scandal, in which Roger Stone also foreshadowed Spitzer’s troubles as he did in the 2016 election, per Vox: “In the Spitzer case, Stone claimed his lawyer sent a letter in November 2007 that tipped off FBI agents that Spitzer hired call girls. There are plenty of reasons to doubt Stone’s story. The FBI never confirmed it. Agents were investigating Spitzer’s suspicious money transfers, some of which allegedly went to the escort service — so Stone’s actual role in the scandal is still murky. But his premonition came true.”
Davis claimed that she couldn’t have worked on Trump’s presidential campaign because she was in prison, however she was released in May of 2016.
Davis spent four months in Rikers Islands for promoting prostitution and was sentenced to two years in prison in 2014 for drug dealing after being caught selling pills.
You know it’s a story about our current president when the title involves a criminal, extra points if they were involved in any kind of sex trade. I’d say no judgement, except that the President is supposed to be upholding the law and is supposed to be a moral role model.
Roger Stone was known as a crafty political operative, and he backed Kristin Davis’ campaign against his enemy Eliot Spitzer, although it was seen as a move to lure voters away from the Democrat rather than actually hoping that Davis could win. A move that sounds very familiar, echoing an old scandal that looked odd at the time and looks even more odd now.
While political operatives are not known for their ethics, it would be wrong to normalize this and assume that all political operatives work like this. There are actually some people in politics who work by trying to motivate actual citizens to vote for them by working to make life better for the average citizen, instead of playing dirty games and dealing with enemies of our country in big time criminal operations meant to undermine the competition because they can’t win fairly.
It should not go unnoticed that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), another alleged Libertarian, has invited the Russians to DC and will be going to Russia as well, even as they attack our country’s elections on his party’s behalf.
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