Good find. Thanks for posting.
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This under-explored aspect of the Stormy saga raises a game-changing question: If Stormy's tale had already hit the newsstands back in 2011 and splashed across Life & Style Magazine, both in print and online, how on earth could she have been "muzzled" later by supposed campaign finance and shady election meddling conspiracies being peddled by Alvin Bragg? The story was out there for all to see, right? So, clearly, something just doesn't quite add up. What this boils down to is a thirteen-year-old slip in Stormy Daniels' alleged extortion plot, likely driven by unchecked greed and really bad timing. Now, assuming it's real, the 2011 Life & Style article would stand as a glaring gap in the prosecution's case, essentially torpedoing it, if we were living in a serious country where justice actually mattered.
Another puzzling aspect of this case is whether or not Team Trump is even aware of the Life & Style story. In their defense, actually locating the story is no small task; our search on Google turned up nothing. It's also absent from the archived articles on Life & Style's website. Draw your own conclusions, but by all accounts, it seems the Life & Style article has mysteriously disappeared, making this obscure part of the "hush money" saga feel like one of the best-kept non-secret secrets in the world.
Add that to Pecker's testimony that an aging porn star would not sell papers and that negative stories about Trump also would not sell papers either and that's why they passed on the deal.
The Access Hollywood tape and the Karen McDougal case are irrelevant to the charges here and should have been excluded as propensity evidence under the recently handed down
Weinstein decision. Mayb a brief mention of the McDougal contract but not three to four days of testimony from Pecker.
