OPINION: Is this Playboy model keeping the biggest secret of the Trump presidency? | Will Bunch
Did I get your attention? Good. Because there may be even more to this story ... a lot more. Some of the bombshell evidence is acknowledged fact. But some of it -- and this is important to say up front -- is speculation...well-informed speculation, but speculation nonetheless. How much of the current theorizing about the big-bucks influence-seeker,
The story begins -- but maybe doesn't end -- with Broidy, a 60-year-old, L.A.-based politically connected venture capitalist who virtually no one in America had heard about until a few weeks ago. By hitching his political wagon to the unexpected rise of
On Monday, the AP threw open a wide window on efforts involving Broidy and
In early 2017, Nader's business in the
The web of intrigue involving Broidy, Nader, Team Trump and the two powerful Gulf states grew more intricate as 2017 progressed. According to the AP report, Broidy and Nader had been promised a whopping
But his associate Nader wanted even more. He wanted to prove his clout by getting his picture with Trump -- a seeming impossibility, since Nader is also a known pedophile who was convicted on child sexual-abuse charges in the
Broidy's donation to the
Last month, FBI agents raided the offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer,
Broidy even issued a public statement in which he apologized to his wife of 25 years and to his family and said of Bechard -- an ex-girlfriend of the iconic
It was kind of a weird one-day headline --
Is such speculation fair, considering Broidy's very public and even embarrassing confession? But other good questions kept piling up. Why did the NDA use the exact same fake names --
And what about Broidy's past? In 2009, he'd pleaded guilty in a
Now, the AP story, which lays bare the extent of Broidy's efforts to curry favor with the president, also casts the Shera Bechard saga in a whole new light. We now know that that the first installment of Broidy
These are questions that special counsel
But what if the Paul Campos theory is correct, and
All of which points to the biggest question of all looming over the Trump era: Does any of this even matter? Let's just say out loud the worst-case scenario: What if influence-seekers paid a huge sum of money to benefit the president by silencing his mistress and paying for her abortion, in return for access to influence
There's one woman who could tell us a lot about just how bad this is, or, conversely, whether there's nothing much to it. But
Like so much else in our hellish reality show, stay tuned.
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