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RSS FeedsUnashamed Stormy Daniels gives the shameless president legal and political problems: Analysis
(The Star Food)

 
 

15 april 2018 06:51:04

 
Unashamed Stormy Daniels gives the shameless president legal and political problems: Analysis
(The Star Food)
 


WASHINGTON—Two months after the Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s lawyer had paid a porn star $130,000 to buy her silence about her 2006 sex with the future president, someone found her on Twitter and called her a “scank.”“The correct spelling,” Stormy Daniels wrote back, “is skank.”Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was serving notice. She would not be handling this saga with the contrition or silence a woman in her position is expected to perform.Assured in the spotlight, content with her sexual behaviour and unwilling to let herself be depicted either as a victim who deserves an apology or a villainous temptress who needs to make one, Daniels has departed from the path taken by most of the other Other Women in America’s political past.To some degree, her unabashedness appears to be working. Aided by a fiery and media-savvy lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who has tantalized the public with Trump-like hints of future disclosures, Daniels has been unusually successful in shaping the arc of a story about which Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet.The porn star, it seems, is out-shameless-ing the president who has turned shamelessness into a formidable political weapon. “It takes away all of the argument against her. It takes it all off the table. Because she’s really owning it,” said Alison Dagnes, a political science professor at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania who has studied political sex scandals.There is a long history, Dagnes notes, of the U.S. media and public hounding and demonizing women who have sex with married politicians. Dagnes said she is “pleasantly surprised at how seriously the media is taking Ms. Clifford and how responsibly they are reporting on this.” Part of the reason, she said, is how impressive Daniels has been.Daniels has tried to strike a balance between you-only-live-once capitalism and convincing demonstrations of cre ...


 
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