The woman that called him an orange turd in courtroom testimony
Donald J. Trump stands accused of 34 crimes in the often mislabeled “hush money trial” in a Manhattan courthouse. What the media has gotten wrong is not to call it “an election fraud trial,” because simply paying off a porn star or Playboy bunny by itself isn’t really a crime. Doing so by concealing it in your tax records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election is a felony. We’ll see if he actually gets convicted for it.
However, the corporate media has had a field day covering the two days of very scandalous testimony by Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has become as much of a household name as Trump. Say what you will about presidential candidates getting caught up in a sex scandal, but a man with more integrity or humility would have faded out of politics a long time ago. This one, however, loves the spotlight as long as he’s in the headlines, no matter what it exposes– he needs the attention, feeds on it, and then claims “I am a victim”. He has no shame or humility.
Blame it on his lawyer some new and unusual nicknames were entered into the legal record during adult film actress Stormy Daniels’s testimony. Trump attorney Susan Necheles displayed a tweet from Daniels dated November 9, 2022, where Daniels states, “I don’t owe him shit and I’ll never give that orange turd a dime.”
Needless to say, the media and late-night comedians are having a field day with a term that’s hard to scrape off your shoes. If humor could have taken the Orange Turd down it should have happened long ago, as should have his involvement with the Jan. 6 insurrection, or even his stolen Top-Secret documents at his Mar Largo mansion. However, none of those cases are progressing as fast as the Manhattan Sex scandal cover-up. It’s commonly assumed his strategy is to drag all of those other cases out long enough so that if and when he were re-elected he could just pardon himself.
The Manhattan case is different since it’s in a state court and even as president he could not pardon himself– so the verdict there matters more because it will come before the election and might even prevent him from taking office. Can a convicted felon hold a federal office? One would hope that would not be true.
The U.S. The Constitution does not explicitly prohibit a presidential candidate from running for office while under indictment or even while serving time behind bars.
Eligibility requirements for presidents state only that they must be at least 35 years old, be a natural-born citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of the country for at least 14 years.
While the Constitution does not specifically disqualify candidates for public office due to criminal records, some people have argued that Trump’s actions are different because they violated a key part of a constitutional amendment.
Some courts and election officials have argued that Trump’s actions before and on the day of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, should deem him ineligible for office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies people who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after taking an oath to support the Constitution.
The cast of witnesses associated with this case is curious by itself – his former attorney Michael Cohen, the fixer; testimony by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, yes that’s his real name, during Trump’s hush money trial has even been shocking. Who knew, outside of the tabloid publishing business, what “catch and kill” meant as to covering up stories to protect friends or sacred cows? Or even that stories were specifically published to protect the Orange Turd or to take down his critics? The cast of characters associated with Trump’s fraud scheme could be straight out of some comedic fiction about a celebrity who becomes a politician only to see his future unravel by betrayal, corruption, sex, and egomania. I think somebody is already writing The PornStar and the President, yet it almost writes itself. It is a dark comedy that exposes the weakness of the American Republic because there’s a presumption of ethics where there often is none, and justice delayed becomes justice denied when a defendant can afford endless appeals.
Perhaps the most darkly humorous part of this story is how Stormy Daniels, the porn star, stared down this megalomaniac and his lawyers with some of the most searing and blunt testimony yet. Much of which is corroborated, by others, except there’s no video of the sex scene (wouldn’t that just have been special to play in court?). And when Trump responded by trying to get his gag order lifted, so he could publicly attack Daniels for her testimony, she tweeted, “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind.”
For the first time, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that a majority of Americans (52%) believe former President Donald Trump “falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star” — the charge at the center of his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan.
Yet another poll still shows the Biden versus Trump presidential race as a toss-up or even worse, the Orange Turd up by 5 points. This summer should be a curious spectacle and campaign season.