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Trump Didn’t Just Sleep With Stormy Daniels That Wild Weekend in Reno in 2006, He Also Slept With Another Woman, and Tried to Sleep With Two Others

I have to wonder if former president Donald Trump regrets that wild July weekend at a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006, where he allegedly had an affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and an alleged “dalliance” with Playboy model Karen McDougal, who according to The Mercury News had recently become the real estate mogul’s mistress. He’d only recently married Melania Trump, who gave birth to their son Barron four months earlier.

But the four-day event was apparently wilder than that, for Trump at least. He also reportedly tried to engage Daniels and another adult film actress Alana Evans in a threesome and met Jessica Drake, another adult film actress, and two of her friends. He allegedly groped and kissed her without her permission and offered to pay her $10,000 to have sex with him.

And Trump didn’t just have sexual relations with Daniels that weekend, he also had sex with McDougal, who he went on to have a 10-month affair with, seeing her on average 5 times a month. And McDougal wasn’t exactly thrilled when she learned Trump had been with Daniels that weekend. “My first thought is how could she have been with him when I was with him?” McDougal said of Daniels.

Of course, this was Trump’s heyday. His reality tv show The Apprentice was doing well. Of course, this was all a long time before he decided to run for president, so he may not have realized that his behavior at Edgewood Golf Club would catch up with him politically or legally. Now, however, Trump faces the very real possibility of becoming the first former president to be indicted.

Thursday, The New York Times reported that Manhattan prosecutors offered the ex-president the chance to testify before the grand jury next week. An offer like this usually means an indictment “is close,” per the Times. It would be rare for District Attorney Alvin Bragg to notify a potential defendant without bringing charges against him.

As I’ve written before, the case centers around the $130,000 hush-money payment made to Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 presidential campaign. Michael Cohen, Trump’s fixer and personal attorney at the time made the payment so that Daniels wouldn’t sell her story to The National Enquirer. David Pecker, the tabloid’s publisher and an ally of Trump’s helped arrange the payment.

Pecker had already promised to buy Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged affair with Trump and never run it, a practice that’s known as “catch and kill,” per the Times. But rather than purchase Daniels’s story, Pecker and a high-level editor brokered an agreement with Cohen and Daniels’s lawyer. That led to Cohen paying the $130,000 and Trump reimbursed him from the White House.

This culminated in Cohen pleading guilty in 2018 to several charges, including federal campaign finance crimes involving the hush-money payment. Manhattan prosecutors are looking at whether Trump’s company falsified business records — considered a misdemeanor — by creating a fictitious retainer agreement and claiming that Trump’s monthly reimbursement checks to Cohen were for legal expenses The New York Times reported earlier.

Manhattan prosecutors hope to elevate this to a felony but to do so they need to show that Trump attempted to commit or conceal a second crime — something that’s a violation of New York States election law. One thing prosecutors could do is argue that the $130,000 payout constituted an improper donation to Trump’s campaign, using the theory that it benefited his campaign by silencing Daniels, per the Times.

Image Credit: Karen McDougal/Twitter via MGN

Trump has been complaining as usual on Truth Social and saying he “did absolutely nothing wrong” and of course, calling the investigation a “witch hunt” because that’s what he does whenever he’s backed into a corner. He’s also continuing to claim he never had an affair with Daniels. “I never had an affair with Daniels nor would I have wanted to have an affair with Stormy Daniels.”

So yeah, I have to wonder if Trump ever looks back on those four days all those years ago and wonders if it was worth it. And we should be grateful to Stormy Daniels and all of the other women who’ve come forward to share their truths about this man. Because this could very well be his undoing.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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