How will it look, for the health of American democracy, if the former President Donald Trump is put in handcuffs next week over charges that he paid ‘hush-hush money’ to the porn star Stormy Daniels?
The man himself seems to be bracing for legal persecution over what he calls ‘The Stormy Horseface Daniels Extortion Plot.’ He says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday and blames his ’sleazebag’ former lawyer Michael Cohen, who claims Trump paid him £230,000 to pay off Daniels and another woman called Karen McDougal, who was voted America’s second ‘sexiest playmate of the 1990s.’
Trump has always denied the allegations and says the whole Daniels case is ‘ancient and now many times debunked.’ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating whether Trump’s alleged payments broke state law. Trump’s campaign say that Bragg is a ‘George Soros-backed Radical Left Democrat Prosecutor.’
Trump has called on his supporters to ‘protest’ – which hysterical media opponents have immediately interpreted as another call for violence a la January 6th. And
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