CNN
has published a story delineating and detailing an earlier rumor that a Trump
Tower doorman has information about an illegitimate child that Trump fathered.
(Sound familiar? Remember the Arnold Schwarzenegger out-of-wedlock child who
was kept away from the limelight for at least 15 years? The story has an odd
parallel to that about Trump since apparently both the children were borne by
the fathers’ housekeepers.)
Naturally
enough in Trump World, the story had been quelled and Trump himself dismissed
it out of hand when the rumors first arose some time ago.
In
the wake of this week’s grant of immunity by federal prosecutors in charge of
the Michael Cohen campaign finance case to one David Pecker, Chairman of
American Media Inc., which publishes the country’s biggest tabloid newspaper—the
National Enquirer—the doorman has been released from restrictions about coming
forth with the specifics of this apparently true story.
Mr.
Pecker has revealed that his publication had acted as Trump’s press agent for
decades, “catching and killing” a variety of negative news stories about Trump,
even storing them for years in a variety of safes to keep them from prying
eyes. (It also promoted a drumbeat of negative and entirely false stories
against Trump opponents including Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz during the
run-up to the 2016 presidential election, acting as Trump’s private press agent
and censor.)
The
stories that lay festering in the AMI safe included that of the out-of-wedlock
child who henceforth will have the unfortunate fate of being associated with
our 45th President . . . for the rest of his or her life.
Previously,
the Trump Tower doorman, one Dino Sajudin, had signed a November 15, 2015 contract
with American Media, Inc., the self-same company that owns and publishes the
National Enquirer and which prohibited him from discussing the subject at hand,
said subject being “Donald Trump's illegitimate child.”
Readers
may recall that it was in November 2015 that the Trump campaign for presidency
really got under way and began steamrolling other Republican candidates with
malignity.
According
to a CNN story:
“The contract appears to have been
signed on Nov. 15, 2015, and states that AMI has exclusive rights to Sajudin's
story but does not mention the details of the story itself beyond saying,
‘Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's
illegitimate child . . .’
“The contract [further] states that
‘AMI will not owe Source [Mr. Sajudin] any compensation if AMI does not publish
the Exclusive [story] . . .’ and the top of the agreement shows that Sajudin
could receive a sum of $30,000 ‘payable upon publication as set forth below.’
“But the third page of the agreement
shows that about a month later, the parties signed an amendment that states
that Sajudin would be paid $30,000 within five days of receiving the amendment.
It says the ‘exclusivity period’ laid out in the agreement ‘is extended in perpetuity
and shall not expire.’
“The amendment also establishes a $1
million payment that Sajudin would be responsible for making to AMI ‘in the
event Source breaches this provision.’”
How
can this be? How can such terms be binding?
First
off, no contract can be valid “in perpetuity.” That makes it void from its
inception, or ab initio.
And
second, a penalty clause of $1 million is so wildly out of proportion that it invalidates
the contract altogether. Hell, the poor doorman apparently only pocketed
$30,000, mere chump change in Trump World.
Or
so I would anticipate Michael Avenatti will respond. (You remember Avenatti,
don’t you, sports fans? The lawyer who made representing a porn star with a
tale to tell into a modern folk heroine.)
This
really is too rich.
How
can a 21st century American politician who is seeking the White House imagine
that a secret like this one will remain under the carpet?
Events
have coalesced to force this particular secret out of hiding, laid bare for the
American public—fickle and unreliably erratic in its judgments—to feast upon.
Pity
the poor housekeeper.
Pity
the poor child.
Their
names will live in infamy, or at least ignominy.
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