Mod: It can be difficult to keep up with everything going on in the Trump world. But something you do need to remember, be it support for a pederast in the Alabama Senate race, or trying to put some dirtbag suspected of drunken sexual assault on the Supreme Court, chances are sleaze is going to be a significant portion of it. Today we have news that a Stormy Daniels book not only exists, but is about to become available to the general public. One written in extremely personal detail. These are troubled times.
Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating (
The Guardian link): In a tell-all memoir, the pornographic actor
Stormy Daniels details salacious descriptions of her time with
Donald Trump, wonders if he is fit to be president and claims he offered to cheat for her in his reality TV show.
A copy of the book,
Full Disclosure, was obtained by the
Guardian. In it,
Daniels describes her mounting disbelief as
Trump began to win primary contests in 2016 for the
Republican presidential nomination. Former castmates whom she had not heard from in years, but who had heard her story about sleeping with
Trump in 2006, would call her up to marvel at the news.
“It will never happen, I would say,”
Daniels writes. “He doesn’t even want to be president.”
But as
Trump kept winning,
Daniels writes, she began to think she might be in danger. The story she had to tell about Trump seemed more sensitive the more he won. And she had already been threatened once, years earlier, and warned never to tell the story about Trump, she has claimed.
Those moments of fear and doubt – and
Daniels’ decision on the eve of the election to sign a $130,000 hush agreement – hang around a detailed description of
Daniels’ alleged tryst with
Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in
Lake Tahoe,
California. In the book,
Daniels writes in sometimes excruciating detail about the president’s genitals and describes her disgust with herself for letting the scene play out.
She continued to answer
Trump’s many phone calls over the next year in hopes that he would make good on his promise to put her on his reality television show,
The Apprentice,
Daniels writes.
Trump even suggested that a cheat could be arranged to allow her to survive through more episodes of the show, she writes.
“We’ll figure out a way to get you the challenges beforehand,” she quotes him as saying. “And we can devise your technique.”
“He was going to have me cheat, and it was 100 percent his idea.”
Whenever she saw
Trump on television for years afterwards,
Daniels writes, an internal monologue would play out: “‘I had sex with that’, I’d say to myself. Eech.”
Trump has denied any affair with
Daniels, although he admitted to personally reimbursing his personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen, for the money
Daniels received in the hush agreement.
With its intensely intimate portrait of a clownish and insecure
Trump, the book lands after weeks in which the
White House has struggled to debunk a portrait of an outmatched and incompetent president in a separate book,
Bob Woodward’s
Fear, and to debunk an editorial by anonymous administration official claiming that subordinates routinely ignore and subvert the president’s orders.
The proliferation of damning narratives have been dismissed by the
White House as made-up stories, floated as a distraction,
Trump claims, from his achievements.
But his approval rating appears to be slumping toward the mid-30s, a historic low for presidents at a similar stage in their first terms. Opinions about
Trump’s presidency are scarce in
Full Disclosure, although when
Daniels tells a story about
Trump growing agitated about a golf course plan, she notes, “there was nothing that made him seem as petulant and prone to tantrums as he has been as president.”
The crux of the book, however, follows
Daniels’ decision to go public with her story about
Trump just before the election, after years of hiding the affair, she writes, from her then-husband. Going public meant that she and her daughter would be less vulnerable to attack, she reasoned. She recounts a story she has told elsewhere, of being approached by a large man in a gym parking lot in 2011 and warned not to tell the story about
Trump.
Trump has said the parking lot story is “a total con job.”
Beginning with
Daniels’ youth as a girl named
Stephanie Clifford growing up in
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana,
Full Disclosure tells a vivid story of childhood poverty, neglect and abuse, including sexual abuse by a middle-aged man beginning when
Daniels was nine years old. The stories are intercut with light moments such as her time with a beloved pet horse and a crush on
Patrick Swayze so intense she kissed a hole in her
Dirty Dancing poster.
“The deck has always been stacked against me,” she writes, but “I own my story and the choices I made.”
The memoir narrates
Daniels’ first experiences as a stripper while still in high school, and how she broke into the porn industry, through which she rose to become an award-winning director, writer and star.
It was in that role that
Daniels attended a celebrity golf tournament in
Lake Tahoe,
California, in 2006, where she and two colleagues greeted golfers between holes. There she first sees
Trump: “He had a red cap, a
Trump crest as a placeholder for the
MAGA slogan not one of us could see coming.”
Trump’s bodyguard invites
Daniels to dinner, which turns out to be an invitation to
Trump’s penthouse, she writes, in a description of alleged events that
Daniels has disclosed previously but which in the book are rendered with new and lurid detail. She describes
Trump’s penis as “smaller than average” but “not freakishly small.”
“He knows he has an unusual penis,”
Daniels writes. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool…
“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with
Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in
Mario Kart.
“It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion.”
Daniels’ alleged relationship with
Trump included one moment in 2007, she writes, in which she is with
Trump in a hotel room watching a
Shark Week broadcast on cable television when he receives a phone call from
Hillary Clinton, then running against
Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Then, to make it crazier,
Hillary Clinton called,”
Daniels writes. “He had a whole conversation about the race, repeatedly mentioning ‘our plan’...
“Even while he was on the phone with
Hillary, his attention kept going back to the sharks.”
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