MSNBCs Mika breaks down lawyers tantalizing hint about potential Trump abortion payout

[DonViejo]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/msnbcs-mika-breaks-down-lawyers-tantalizing-hint-about-potential-trump-abortion-payout/

[CTyankee]

1. I'm confused. I haven't heard anything about an "abortion" payout.

I'm wondering if the writer of this piece was meaning "extortion" instead...

[kag]

2. They're conflating two different cases...

The three clients of Michael Cohen are Trump, Hannity, and Elliot Broidy (not the Trump Org., as Mika said).

Broidy was messed up in an affair with a Playboy Plamate (which boggles the mind because Broidy is one ugly fuck) that resulted in her getting pregnant and having an abortion. Later on she, just like Stormy, was paid hush money.

From the Broidy Wikipedia page:

Elliott B. Broidy (born July 18, 1957) is an American venture capitalist, Republican fundraiser, and philanthropist. From 2005 to 2008 he was finance chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). In 2017 he was named a deputy finance chairman of the RNC. He resigned from this role in April 2018 after the Wall Street Journal reported that Broidy had a sexual affair with a Playboy Playmate which resulted in a pregnancy that she terminated, and that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal lawyer who is under investigation for bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, arranged a payment of $1.6 million in hush money to the woman involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy

I think Mika was confused (what are the odds?), thinking that Avenatti was asserting that Trump was the one who got the Playmate pregnant.

[Rustynaerduwell]

4. As I understand it,

although Broidy agreed to pay a shell company created by Cohen to broker the deal for silencing the pregnant Playboy model, he was not a direct client of Cohen. According to Avenatti, the three clients specifically named in the Court proceedings were Trump, the Trump Org. and Hannity.

[tclambert]

3. Stormy's lawyer, Avenatti, says the press got it wrong about Elliot Broidy being Cohen's client.

He said the three clients are Trump, Hannity, and the Trump Organization. He then hinted, but did not outright say, that the $1.6 million dollar payout for an abortion could therefore NOT be on behalf of Broidy.

[mr_lebowski]

5. It WOULD make more sense, wouldn't it?

Playmate + Infidelity + Hush Money = X

An equation wherein many reasonable people, when solving for X, would logically come up with the word "Trump".

And yeah, Broidy is one homely mofo (not that Dump is much to look at), it does boggle the brain a bit imagine him rolling with Playboy models ... methinks Broidy is acting as fall guy for Dump, who doesn't much mind people finding out he cheated ... but paying for an ABORTION (gasp) would be a whole different matter for much of his base.

[kag]

6. I see.

Thanks for the extra info.