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This Is Why Republicans Can’T Shrug Off The Stormy Daniels Saga, Allen C. Guelzo
This Is Why Republicans Can’T Shrug Off The Stormy Daniels Saga, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Stormy Daniels would probably have never been much more than a name in the catalog of porn-movie stars had it not been for Michael Cohen.
On Jan. 12, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Cohen, one of Donald Trump's personal lawyers, had paid Daniels [npr.org] - or arranged for Daniels to be paid -- $130,000 for her silence over an alleged affair she once had with the president. In a political climate jaded by the sexual shenanigans of politicians, many Americans were tempted to ask, "So what?"
Because, as they like to say in high-stakes poker, the Daniels …
Is Trump The De-Regulator-In-Chief?, Allen C. Guelzo
Is Trump The De-Regulator-In-Chief?, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Abe Lincoln was a regulation cutter. Who would’ve known that?”
That line in a speech on December 8 by President Trump sent a number of pundits flocking to their history textbooks for fact-checking, especially after he followed it with the claim that, based on the numbers, he had actually exceeded Lincoln’s first-year total. “That’s pretty good for 10 months.”
What the pundits found was largely what they looked for. Blue State Daily’s Matthew Slivan smirked that “Trump likes to conjure comparisons to Abraham Lincoln,” but “the truth is what you’d expect: Trump is a blowhard.” Another reporter rang up …