Fox News apparently killed a story that was filed by its reporter, Diana Falzone, that Donald Trump had a sexual relationship with adult-film star, Stephanie Clifford -- stage name of Stormy Daniels, which will be used throughout this piece. Falzone has an on-the-record statement from Daniel's manager at the time, Gina Rodriquez, confirmation from three other people, and had even seen e-mails about a settlement. Slate's Jacob Weisberg said Daniels had the personal phone number of Trump's long-time personal assistant, Rhona Graff, and his bodyguard, Keith Schiller. Weisberg spoke to three of Daniel's friends, all of whom confirmed the outlines of the story.
Besides the two reporters referenced above, on January 18, the Wall Street Journal published a story that Trump's personal long-time lawyer, Steven Cohen, made a $130,000 payment to Daniels, hiding it by setting up a company named Essential Consultants, LLC in Delaware. Although Daniels now denies receiving the money, friends of hers say she did receive it . Besides this hush money paid to Daniels, the "National Enquirer," whose owner is a good friend of Trump's, paid $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Although McDougal was presumably being paid to be a writer for the "Enquirer," she only produced three articles, and it is virtually certain that the payment was to buy her silence about a sexual affair with Trump.
The sources for the sexual relationship between Donald Trump and Stormy don't end with the three above. "In Touch" magazine published an interview with Stormy in 2011, in which Stormy gave a detailed account of a sexual relationship with Trump that was more than a one-night stand -- Stormy said Trump called her about once every ten days. Besides that, Megyn Kelly interviewed another porn-star performer, Alana Evans, a neighbor of Stormy's, who described a chance meeting in which Stormy told her that she had just met Donald Trump. Later that evening, Stormy made calls to Alana from Trump's hotel room, inviting her to come to the room to join in a party. Alana claimed that Donald even came on the phone to invite her to his room. Since Alana was with a friend and didn't want to leave her by herself, she declined the invitation. The next morning, however, Stormy filled her in on what happened in the room.
This story of the affair between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump wasn't a one-night stand; has many sources; and hangs together very well, yet, there is no indication that "family values" white evangelists will drop their overwhelming support for Trump. It appears that the hope that Trump will advance the United States toward becoming a theocracy trumps any pretension that they are people who actually believe in family values.
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