As you know, Stormy Daniels isn’t the only one who claims to have had an affair with Trumpy back in the day. Ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal says the same thing, as we’ve previously reported, and thanks to the parent company of the National Enquirer letting her out of their contract, she’s now free to tell her story.
FOX NEWS – Ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal has been freed from a contract with American Media Inc. that she claimed barred her from discussing President Trump.
According to the New Yorker, AMI paid $150,000 to McDougal in November 2016 in exchange for the exclusive rights to her story claiming she had an affair with Trump. AMI, which runs publications like the National Enquirer, never ran a McDougal’s story, but per her contract McDougal was not allowed to take her story to another publication.
Trump has denied he had an affair with McDougal.
On Thursday the 1998 Playmate of the Year told The Wrap: “I am pleased to have reached a settlement with AMI on my own terms, which restores to me the rights to my life story and frees me from this contract that I was misled into signing nearly two years ago.
“My goal from the beginning was to restore my rights and not to achieve any financial gain, and this settlement does exactly that. I am relieved to be able to tell the truth about my story when asked, and I look forward to being able to return to my private life and focus on what matters to me. Thank you to my family, friends, legal team, and the public for the support I have received.”
The media, will of course, eat this up like red meat. But is it really? For the most part, we all know the measure of a man that Trump has been in the past – heck it was on full display for everyone to see and hear back in October of 2016.
Just as the media will nom nom the stories of McDougal, Trump will continue to deny it, just as he has with Stormy. And that’s the most problematic thing about it. If he’d just admit that he had these affairs and explained why, the media fury wouldn’t have nearly as much impact. After all, I think only Trump’s most ardent fan base are the ones who believe they didn’t happen.
So why now? Just as AMI used their contract with McDougal to protect Trump during the election – which is another reason to believe that the affair is true – I think AMI realizes that in order to protect Trump in the future, it’s better to get this out in the wash well before the 2020 elections come about. That way people will have already rendered judgement and forgotten about it by then, and thus it won’t have much impact on the election.