‘She can describe his genitalia’: Attorney says Stormy Daniels is prepared to tell all about the rich asshole
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (left, via Wikimedia Commons) and President some rich asshole (right, via screengrab).
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Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing adult film star Stormy Daniels, said on Monday that his client can describe President some rich asshole’s penis.
During an interview with NBC’s “Today,” Avenatti explained that Daniels went into a lot more detail about her alleged affair with the rich asshole during her interview on “60 Minutes,” although he said that the show cut out a lot of the gory details when it aired the final program.
“She was prepared to discuss intimate details relating to some rich asshole,” the attorney said. “She can describe his genitalia. She can describe various conversations that they had that leave no doubt as to whether this woman is telling the truth.”
Avenatti then practically dared the rich asshole to publicly address the controversy surrounding his alleged affair with Daniels.
“Let the president take to the podium and call her a liar,” he said. “Let the president come forward and say it never happened.”
Watch the video below.
Being ‘the rich asshole’s stooge’ could come back to haunt Devin Nunes in a big way
"Nunes can find his whole district has eroded right out from underneath him without him even noticing it."
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA — On a balmy February evening, nearly 150 volunteers gathered in a small office park in California’s Central Valley, home to the North Fresno field office of Democratic congressional candidate Andrew Janz. Most have never been actively involved in politics, but they believe the 34-year-old Fresno County Deputy District Attorney has what it takes to unseat their congressman, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, and turn California’s 22nd congressional district from red-to-blue. While projections show that Nunes is still safe in the upcoming 2018 elections, momentum against the incumbent has been building.
Nunes is widely perceived to be no more than a surrogate for President some rich asshole thanks to his mismanagement of, and subsequent recusal from, the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election. So much so, that the district’s leading newspaper, The Fresno Bee, which had previously endorsed Nunes, labelled him “the rich asshole’s stooge” in January. Nunes now refers to the paper as a “left-wing rag.”
Then, there’s the infamous “Nunes Memo.” Reaction to the memo among Janz’s supporters is visceral; its contents, a source of derision. Their congressman’s staunch support of the president is not, however, the sole factor that has brought these activists together.
Nancy Gilmore, a retired engineer and lifelong Democrat from nearby Clovis said there are people in desperate need of help and Nunes has been unresponsive to their needs. “He’s voted against air quality, EPA regulations, clean drinking water. Very baseline health issues. There’s the whole Russia thing, but what’s most concerning is his complete and utter disregard for this district.”
Gilmore believes Janz has a fighting chance. “When Pennsylvania happened, it was like, wow, this could happen here,” she told ThinkProgress, referring to Democrat Conor Lamb’s recent surprising victory in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district.
But Republican control of Nunes’ district has been a historical given — the district hasn’t elected a Democrat in almost two decades and has re-elected Nunes four times. Nunes previously represented the adjacent 21st congressional district before district lines were redrawn following the 2010 Census.
Still, constituents are hopeful. Because as red as the 22nd district is, it has fewer registered Republican voters than Lamb’s, according to the 2017 Cook Partisan Voter Index. Numbers aside, it doesn’t help that constituent outreach hasn’t been high on Nunes’ to-do list.
Patty Cappelluti, a part-time medical biller and co-leader of Central Valley Indivisible, told ThinkProgress she’s been living in Nunes’ district for over 20 years. “I never heard from him, never received anything, until Andrew Janz started running. All of a sudden, I’m getting mailers.”
According to Janz, Nunes hasn’t held a town hall meeting since 2010. ThinkProgress made attempts to confirm that with his communications director, Jack Langer, but calls were not returned. It appears unlikely that Nunes is planning on holding a town hall anytime soon. City Councilman Jose Sigala, a Democrat from Nunes’ hometown of Tulare, told ThinkProgress he contacted Nunes last June, offering to help arrange a town hall. Sigala has yet to hear back from him.
“I’ve seen this on more than one occasion,” said Fresno State political science professor Tom Holyoke. “A supposedly safe, powerful member of Congress becomes so focused on Washington, D.C. that they just stop paying attention to what’s going on at home. And voters take notice of that.”
Karol Seabolt, a teacher, told ThinkProgress she was inspired to get involved in the race after attending last year’s Women’s March. “They motivated us to take our politics local.”
Upon returning home, Seabolt started a Facebook page and began organizing a group of volunteers whose sole mission was to challenge Nunes and the Republican Party’s domination of the district, which includes parts of Fresno and Tulare counties. Seabolt said the number of followers grew exponentially. “At that point, we didn’t care who was going to run against him, we were gonna bring him down,” she said.
Janz supporters are regularly out in force in Fresno. Many are being coordinated by precinct captains, canvassing neighborhoods, phone banking, and writing postcards. Cappelluti said volunteers from San Francisco and the state’s Central Coast have been holding postcard parties. She noted that nearly 17,000 cards have been sent to the district’s Democrats reminding them to vote.
“What’s invigorating for me is people who’ve never been involved before say they need to be now because of Nunes and the rich asshole. People have come out of the woodwork,” said Nancy Griesser, a retired educator from Fresno, who has volunteered for a number of local campaigns.
Holyoke said this activism may sneak up on Nunes. “Before you know it, Nunes can find his whole district has eroded right out from underneath him without him even noticing it,” he said.
“I didn’t even know Devin Nunes was my congressman”
California’s Central Valley has long been a Republican bastion and Nunes, who comes from a family of dairymen, has consistently trounced his Democrat opponents with little effort. Troubling to many of Nunes’ constituents is the fact they weren’t even aware he was their representative prior to his involvement with the the rich asshole administration and the supporting role he’s played in its unfolding Russia scandal.
Until last year, Nunes had maintained a decidedly low profile. The first time many in the district caught a glimpse of their congressman was when he was standing in front of the White House before a bank of microphones and a gaggle of reporters.
“I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know Devin Nunes was my congressman,” said Gilmore. “When I found that out, I called up his office to find out a little more about him. And basically, was met with just a stone wall. I vowed right then I’d look into his record and do everything in my power to flip this district.” Gilmore, who is in her early 60s, said that, until now, she’d never been politically active. “I wore a [George] McGovern shirt when I was about 16. Really, that was about it.”
Despite his limited exposure in the district, what Nunes does have going for him is money. His cash on hand at the end of last year was nearly $3.8 million according to Federal Election Commission records; much of that coming from PAC’s, big agriculture, the health care industry, corporations, and conservative donors whose ideology and economic interests align with his own. Janz is taking a grassroots approach. Like Lamb, he’s not seeking corporate money, rather opting for smaller contributions from individual donors.
Holyoke noted that Janz has probably done a better job of raising money than any candidate who’s attempted to take on the incumbent in the past. Janz campaign manager Heather Greven told ThinkProgress that in the 48 hours leading up to the release of the Nunes memo, over $100,000 poured into the campaign, with nearly half that amount coming in on the day its contents became public.
“Nunes is probably going to get a tougher challenge than is usual, but I doubt he’s losing too much sleep over this. Then again, complacent congressmen have gone down before,” said Holyoke.
Many of Janz’s volunteers have optimistically pointed to Lamb’s campaign and believe they can turn the tide at home. “It’s all in the numbers,” said Seabolt. “I don’t care how much money there is in the world, if you haven’t got the voters motivated to vote, you’ve got squat.”
The Latinx question
High on the list of priorities for Janz supporters is reaching out to a powerful, yet disenfranchised group of voters who may have a significant impact come November: the Central Valley’s large Latinx community, which make up almost 50 percent of the 22nd district’s electorate. Getting them to the polls, however, is no easy undertaking.
Santos Garcia of the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council, the umbrella organization for Central Valley union members, told ThinkProgress that his and other organizations which represent the valley’s working-class, have been focusing much of their effort on the down ballot, where a few hundred dollars goes a long way in helping elect local candidates. He said that the national Democratic Party expects candidates to raise millions, yet makes very little financial and organizational effort to support those running for Congress.
Because many Latinx leaders believe Janz has a real chance to take Nunes’ seat, however, they’ve become more active in his campaign. “Janz is a local-grown guy who speaks our language. He has lots of support in the community. In the last ten years, nobody has been able to generate buzz like Andrew,” said Garcia.
“Janz is a local-grown guy who speaks our language.”
Sergio Martinez, of Lindsay, a farming community just east of Tulare, is in his 30s and works for the local school district. He doesn’t believe candidates from either of the two major parties have made much of an effort to engage Latinx voters in the past and feels that reaching out to the community on their own turf is the only way to win their votes.
“People who are working in the fields come home dog tired and live routine lives,” said Martinez. Martinez, whose parents emigrated to the Central Valley in the 1970s, were farm laborers who spent most of their lives picking grapes and oranges. “They don’t even know who the candidate is. They’re not going out of their way to find out who’s running or what they’re all about. You need to come to them,” he said.
Art Rodriguez, a community activist and director of field operations for the Central Valley Empowerment Alliance, told ThinkProgress that this sense of hopelessness and disengagement from the electoral process has been self-defeating for the Latinx community. Especially given that Nunes’ positions on DACA, immigration, health care, and a border wall are in lockstep with the president’s. “The attitude is ‘why bother?’ Even though they could really bring about change by voting,” said Rodriguez.
“Here, the only contact most of them have with government is the police,” said Rodriguez. “What they see is people being arrested or the police pulling people over and questioning them for no reason.”
Still, the possibility of voting Nunes out of office in November seems to be a motivating factor among these disparate groups of activists.
“This time in our nation’s history is completely different than any other,” she said. “The energy of this blue wave, even though it can’t be quantified, needs to be added into the equation.”
Anthony Scaramucci goes down in flames on CNN after comparing the rich asshole White House to a start-up business
CNN's Chris Cuomo, Anthony Scaramucci -- CNN screencap
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Anthony Scaramucci employed some epic spin during a Monday CNN interview with Chris Cuomo. While discussing the higher than normal staff turnover in the White House, the former communications director explained that such turnover is perfectly normal in the business world. Thus, he claimed, because President some rich asshole is a businessman, this is perfectly normal.
In a previous interview, Cuomo cited Scaramucci categorizing the White House as “rough” for the turnover. “I don’t care what anyone tells you, John Kelly has problems in that White House.”
“I want to state for the record, I don’t want bad things to happen,” Scaramucci said covering. “I want the White House to work smoothly and be completely functional. I was saying that for a reason because it was true.”
He went on to ask whether it could be a strategic move by the rich asshole. Cuomo questioned the claim, saying that it doesn’t seem to have any strategy, particularly after the rich asshole claimed he’d hire “all the best people.”
“I sold two businesses, or almost sold my last business, what happens in the first two years is you have heavy turnover,” Scaramucci claimed. “He is an entrepreneur. The American people elected — not a politician –”
Cuomo cut in to ask who runs a business where there is 45 percent staff turnover in a year. “That’s called a bankruptcy,” he said.
Scaramucci claimed he ran his businesses like that, but Cuomo shot back no one gets rid of half of their workforce in a successful business in the first year.
“This is a start-up,” Scaramucci claimed. the rich asshole “is trying to put personnel on the field that like him.”
Cuomo pressed on how the White House could possibly be compared to a “start-up organization.” He emphasized it is the “highest echelon of executive activity in our democracy.”
“Again, you want to talk only on this statement,” Scaramucci tried to pivot to arguing about the statement rather than the claim itself.
“It needed to be called out,” Cuomo shot back.
“Hold on a second, Chris, you hired an American business leader who is an entrepreneur to run the White House,” Scaramucci claimed.
The two then went back to the high turnover and it not being sensible business decision, and the conversation devolved into a back and forth on business strategy. Scaramucci continued to claim the turnover wasn’t a problem.
According to a report by FastCompany, 75 percent of venture-backed start-ups ultimately fail. The statistic is based on a Harvard Business School study in 2017.
POLITICS
the rich asshole Returns To White House Without Melania As CBS Airs Stormy Daniels Interview
The first lady is spending spring break in Florida.
President some rich asshole returned to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Sunday evening, arriving at the White House shortly before “60 Minutes” aired its interview with porn star Stormy Daniels.
Melania the rich asshole was not with him.
“The first lady will be staying in Florida as is their tradition for spring break,” deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement cited by The Hill.
It’s not clear if the rich asshole watched the interview. In it, Daniels described a 2006 affair with the future president, which allegedly took place while his wife was caring for the couple’s then-infant son, Barron.
Representatives for the president have denied the allegations.
Footage of the rich asshole’s return to the White House showed him walking alone as reporters shouted questions about the “60 Minutes” interview and other topics. He waved but did not speak.
(h/t Raw Story)
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Rick Santorum's suggestion was DOA.
Republicans are desperate in their attempts to silence young people who protest gun violence. But the kids just fight back twice as hard.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) stepped in it on Sunday when he suggested that young people “learn CPR” rather than petition their government for stronger gun laws. On CNN’s “New Day” on Monday morning, Parkland survivors Lauren and David Hogg reacted to tape of Santorum’s remarks.
“I just think it’s completely absurd that he’s even thinking about teaching us CPR when we’re having gun violence all across America and even in our schools,” Lauren Hogg said. “The fact that he’s saying CPR when my friends are dying on our floor, and nothing’s being done about it, is just horrible. I think he’s just using it as a distraction to get the attention away from guns.”
Lauren’s brother, David Hogg, then pointed out that kids are already learning to treat gunshot victims, but that, “At the end of the day, if you take a bullet from an AR-15 to the head, no amount of CPR is going to save you, because you’re dead.”
Santorum’s remarks came in response to massive nationwide protests this weekend, and sparked immediate outrage.
Several other Parkland students called Santorum out as well.
Stop trying to tell us the best ways to fix things after they already happen. Fun fact: most teens know CPR already. It’s good for the babysitting business. (You trust us to watch your kids then, so why are you fighting us protecting your kids now?) twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/…
Genius! I will just learn CPR, and gun violence in America will be resolved! Thanks @RickSantorum :)
Erica Lafferty, whose mother Dawn was killed protecting students during the Sandy Hook massacre, said in a statement, “Rick Santorum’s words are an insult to the kids of Parkland, my family and to the countless others who have had loved ones taken by gun violence.”
“My mother was killed while protecting her students at Sandy Hook School,” Lafferty continued. “For anyone to suggest that the solution to gun violence is for kids to learn CPR is outrageous, and indicative of the NRA’s desire to do or say anything except strengthen America’s weak gun laws.”
Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts called Santorum out for his ties to the gun lobby. “Rick Santorum – who thinks we should reactively revive the dead instead of proactively passing data-proven, lifesaving gun laws – had an A+ rating from the @NRA and took hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from their lobbyists as a quid pro quo,” Watts wroteon Twitter.
And a number of doctors also weighed in with more informed views than Santorum’s.
For 13 years I worked as a physician in a trauma center. If a gunshot victim is pulseless, his chance of survival approaches zero. Neither CPR, transfusions, nor surgery will save him.
But scientific facts matter little to smug rhetoric-spewers like Rick Santorum. twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/…
Santorum is not the first Republican to lash out desperately at these kids, and he won’t be the last. But sooner, rather than later, Republicans will learn that fighting for the NRA no longer pays.
Lawyer asks why the rich asshole isn’t tweeting about Stormy Daniels
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 03/26/18 07:49 AM EDT
Stormy Daniels's lawyer is questioning why President the rich asshole is not tweeting about his client.
“Isn’t it interesting that we have a president that will tweet about the most mundane matters, but he won’t tweet about my client, the affair, the agreement or the $130,000 payment?" attorney Michael Avenatti asked during an interview Monday on "CBS This Morning."
"You know why he won’t tweet about it? Because it’s true. It's 100 percent true."
During the interview, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she decided to speak publicly about the alleged affair because she felt she needed to defend herself and her family from legal and public scrutiny.
She said she felt compelled to set the record straight after a Wall Street Journal article revealed she had been paid $130,000 by the rich asshole's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, reportedly to keep quiet about the alleged affair.
Daniels filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to void the nondisclosure agreement, which her lawyer claims is invalid because it was never signed by the rich asshole himself.
the rich asshole's lawyers argued in subsequent court documents that Daniels repeatedly violated the nondisclosure agreement, and could be forced to pay $20 million in damages.
During the interview that aired Sunday, Daniels refused to say whether she had hard evidence of the alleged affair. Avenatti hinted at evidence last week by tweeting a photo of a mystery disc in a safe.
the rich asshole has remained silent on the allegations, though had denied the affair through his lawyer.
The president early Monday tweeted about the economy, saying it is "looking really good."
The economy is looking really good. It has been many years that we have seen these kind of numbers. The underlying strength of companies has perhaps never been better.
‘He’s their b*tch’: the rich asshole attorneys are terrified of what tales Rick Gates will tell Mueller
Former the rich asshole campaign associate Rick Gates (left) and special counsel Robert Mueller (right). Images via screengrab.
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Rick Gates reached a plea agreement last month with special counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for his cooperation for the Russia probe — which has set off panic in the White House and on President some rich asshole’s legal team.
It’s nearly certain that Gates will sell out his longtime business partner Paul Manafort, who served much of 2016 as the rich asshole’s campaign manager, and the president’s legal team worries both men could turn on the rich asshole, reported Politico.
“They’ve been very concerned about it,” said a defense attorney working on the Russia case. “It’s something they’re worried about.”
The 45-year-old Gates spent more time on the campaign than Manafort, who was pushed out in August 2016 over his longstanding ties to Russia, and he continued working with the rich asshole through the transition and the early days of his administration.
“He saw everything,” said a Republican consultant who worked with Gates during the campaign.
The consultant put Gates in the “top five” insiders who Mueller could flip, and he lacks the family or political loyalty that some witnesses might hold.
“Let’s be honest, Don Jr. is not ratting out his dad,” said Paul Rosenzweig, who served as a senior counsel to Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr. “Gates is different.”
The plea agreement likely allows Gates to limit his sentence to six years, but it comes at a cost of delivering his longtime business patron and others in the the rich asshole orbit.
“He’s their b*tch,” said Solomon Wisenberg, a former Starr deputy.
MEDIA
EW! Tweeters React To Stormy Daniels’ Dirty Details About Alleged Affair With the rich asshole
“Never gonna watch Shark Week the same way again.”
The long-awaited “60 Minutes” interview with Stormy Daniels aired on Sunday night, and the porn star made a number of eyebrow-raising claims about her alleged 2006 affair with some rich asshole.
Daniels talked about spanking the future president with a magazine that had his picture on the cover, described him watching “Shark Week” on Discovery and revealed how he compared her to his daughter, Ivanka.
More than a few folks on Twitter let out a collective “Ew!” over the revelations:
Stormy Daniels just made the case for herself being White House chief of staff with the spanking story. My god. #StormyDanielsDay
Trump told both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal that they reminded him of Ivanka.
This guy is obsessed with his daughter.#60Minutes
Willow
Lena Dunham 
Stormy Daniels' 60 Minutes interview is just the latest evidence that when you deal with Donald Trump, you are, basically, dealing with America's most stupid & crass mobster. #StormyDanielsDay
You know the thing that Trump hates most about this 60 Minutes interview is not that he’s been exposed as an adulterer but that Stormy Daniels said she wasn’t attracted to him and didn’t enjoy the sex#StormyDanielsDay
How many women have said that he tells them they remind him of Ivanka before he screws them? Does this fact alone not bother anyone else? He's disgusting! twitter.com/60minutes/stat…
1. I hate that sex workers are punchlines. Rankles.
2. Genuinely concerned, in retrospect, for 45's daughter. (Ew.)
3. Stormy didn't deserve to have her life disrupted. This is entirely on the disruptors, *not* her.
Rubio’s response to the March For Our Lives prioritizes gun owners over gun violence
That NRA money apparently goes a long way.
Since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) has been one of the major targets of gun control activists. His response to Saturday’s March for Our Lives, however, shows he’s still more concerned about catering to gun owners.
Rubio commended those who marched in historic numbers, but emphasized that many people believe banning guns will infringe on their rights and “ultimately will not prevent these tragedies.”
“While protests are a legitimate way of making a point, in our system of government, making a change requires finding common ground with those who hold opposing views,” he said in the statement.
But Rubio’s approach on guns has been the opposite of finding common ground. Since the shooting, he has said he will continue to accept money from the National Rifle Association, claiming the group has “less power” over him than it does other lawmakers. Indeed, his tune hasn’t changed much since the day after the Parkland shooting, when he took to the Senate floor to argue against gun control efforts.
At the march, students from Parkland wore bright orange price tags with the amount of $1.05. This, they had calculated, was what each student in Florida was worth as a fraction of the money Rubio received from the NRA.
Despite his claim in the statement of being willing to find common ground, Rubio has a history of voting against even the most watered down gun control legislation. In 2013, for example, he helped vote down a bill from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) that would have required background checks for commercial gun sales, but not for gun sales to friends, family, and neighbors.
A new Fox News poll, conducted before the march, shows that Rubio is widely out of step with the public. Respondents significantly prioritized “protecting citizens from gun violence” (53 percent) over “protecting the right of citizens to own guns” (40 percent). On specific gun control measures, support was through the roof. For example, 91 percent favored requiring criminal background checks on all gun buyers, including for guns purchased at gun shows and through private sales — a measure that would be far more stringent than the Manchin-Toomey bill Rubio opposed. A majority of respondents also favored requiring mental health checks on gun buyers (84 percent), raising the gun purchase age to 21 (72 percent), and banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons (60 percent).
Rubio’s statement was pilloried on Twitter, receiving a 3:1 ratio of replies to likes. Many pointed out that describing the march as being about a “gun ban” demonstrated that he wasn’t actually listening to the arguments being made. Others called out the fact that so long as Rubio maintains a 100 percent rating from the NRA, he’s the one who is making no effort to find common ground.
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