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Why was Donald Trump so desperate to keep their affair secret? After all, the man revels in his reputation as a swinger. He loves flash and glamour, so an affair with a porn star seems like just the sort of thing that would burnish his image.
Granted, he was running for President at the time the payoff was made, and what might be glamorous for a mere playboy billionaire might be awkward for a Presidential candidate. But, as Trump himself said, his followers would forgive him if he shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue. They shrugged off admissions of routine sexual assault. So why should be get upset about a perfectly consensual affair with a porn star?
Granted, again, his payoff of $130,000, though it may seem like a lot to most people, is pocket change to the Donald. But Trump did not get to be as rich as he is by being indifferent to money. Spy Magazine, testing just how attached rich people were, sent them checks for very small sums to see if they would cash. Trump was one of only two people who cashed checks for as little as thirteen cents. Also notable is that Trump went to some lengths to launder the payment through his lawyer, that he is suing to stop the broadcast, and that Daniels was purportedly physically threatened (although we don't know whether the threats came from anyone in the Trump circle or from anonymous Twitter accounts. It makes a difference).
So, even granting that to be revealed as having had an affair with a porn star might be awkward to a candidate for President, that cat is obviously out of the bag. The affair itself is no longer possible to conceal. So what is Trump so afraid of?
Some unspeakable perversion. I must admit, my first thought on Trump going to such lengths to conceal his affair was, "How kinky are we talking about?" Could Stormy have told us about some unspeakable perversion that Trump would go to any lengths to conceal? Given that she described sex with him as "textbook generic," it seems unlikely.
Textbook generic sex. Maybe the horrible secret Trump is so eager to conceal is that he is not (as his second wife reportedly claimed) the world's best lover. He is actually just "textbook generic." But I'm sure his supporters will forgive him for that, and the rest of us never believed he was the world's best lover in the first place.
Fear of divorce. Yes, granted, it seems a safe bet that Melania knew what kind of a man she was marrying when she married him. And if that somehow escaped her notice, she must have found out soon afterward. But many is the spouse who can stand fooling around, but can't handle the humiliation of publicity.
Trump's hands are not his only small body part. The non-disclosure agreement apparently included a requirement for Daniels to return all "still images and/or text messages." There has been some speculation that the "still images" may include nude pictures of Trump and reveal that the reason he is so sensitive about his hand size is that he does, in fact, have a small penis. Time was when I would expect the respectable press not to reveal such things, but it is no longer something anyone can count on. But honestly, does anyone care about the size of Trump's penis? My guess is that the number of people who care is one. But maybe his opinion counts for a lot.
Or, the unthinkable. Maybe he paid for an abortion. Trump's followers on the Religious Right would forgive him for anything from having an affair with a porn star to shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but this one just might be a bridge too far.
Or it might be a big anticlimax. I guess we will find out soon.
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