Stormy Daniels Trolls Donald Trump and Michael Cohen
Tired: trolling to provoke anger and hatred. Wired: righteous trolling!
In a new interview with Penthouse magazine, Stormy Daniels said that should she win the defamation case she has levied against President Donald Trump and his shrieking fixer Michael Cohen, she’ll donate $130,000 to Planned Parenthood—the exact amount she was reportedly paid by Cohen to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
The idea was likely inspired by a wave of donations that appeared after the election. By December 8, 2016, Planned Parenthood had collected 82,000 donations in the name of Mike Pence, a man who puts the con in a conservative approach to sexual health. The Vice President received thank-you notes for every donation, and presumably so would Trump and Cohen.
Dawn Laguens, the health-care provider’s executive V.P., told Vanity Fair that Daniels “joins more than 11 million Americans who support Planned Parenthood. We’re glad to see Ms. Daniels recognize the importance of access to reproductive health care, even if the Trump-Pence administration does not.”
Michael Avenatti, who has a forehead I would trust with my life and is Daniels’s attorney, has also offered the same amount, plus $1,000, to anyone with information regarding the person who allegedly approached Daniels in a parking lot and told her to “leave Trump alone.” The adult-film actress said the anonymous man referred to her daughter and added, “That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.” (The Daniels’s team released a (sketch of the man)[https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/stormy-daniels-michael-avenatti-sketch/index.html], which Trump has called “a total con job.”)
Elsewhere on Daniels’s media tour, she appeared on The View Tuesday morning, where she faced the group’s lone Republican panelist, Meghan McCain, who questioned all the publicity Daniels has received since coming forward with a story about the alleged affair with Trump, and the subsequent payout from Cohen. (Cohen has admitted exchanging $130,000 for her silence, but maintains that it was his money and Trump was none the wiser.)
“Can I just say, first of all, I did not name the tour,” she said about the so-called “Make America Horny Again” strip-club tour, which McCain specifically referenced. “You won’t hear me say it. I haven’t promoted that name. I think it’s awful.”
“As far as the tour, yes, I’ve gotten more bookings than usual but I’m doing the job that I’ve been doing for the last almost 20 years,” Daniels added. “Yes, there’s a lot of publicity, but I didn’t do it for that because this isn’t what I want to be known for. I hid from it for a while because it’s overwhelming and intimidating and downright scary a lot of times. I’ve had to hire bodyguards. Yes, I’m making more money, but I’m spending so much more.”
