Why The Stormy Daniels Case Matters

The following article by David Cay Johnston was posted on the DCReports.org website March 9, 2018:

The adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump. Credit Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Important national security, political and other issues are embedded in the lawsuit that a porn actress filed against the president this week. Treating it as mere entertainment would be a serious mistake.

Further, the inept and dishonest way the White House and Trump’s personal lawyer have handled the matter underlines the many facts that establish this administration is a kakistocracy, a government of the venal, the corrupt and the incompetent. Instead of the best and the brightest, the Trump administration draws on the worst and the dullest.

The porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is just one of many people who know dark secrets about Trump. Like Clifford, these people have solid evidence—photographs, text messages, outtakes from Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice and other evidence. The secrets Clifford knows are for sure not the darkest. Continue reading “Why The Stormy Daniels Case Matters”