The $850,000 paid out to Paula Jones in a settlement could be considered hush money, yes?
I also recently watched a 60-minute documentary titled JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed. Just highlighting the women who were dangerous to national security were
1) Inga Arvad (1941, a Dutch reporter and German spy, the Navy wanted to dishonorably discharge JFK for regularly boasting about Navy secrets in bed with her, but because of his money and family power, despite his treason, he was just assigned to another Navy post that ceased their liason.)
2) Judith Campbell (1960, the call girl/girlfriend of Al Capone successor Sam Giancanna's second in command, and under FBI surveillance, JFK's sharing her favors created a direct link and potential extortion by the Mob of JFK. )
3) Marilyn Monroe (1962, who was sharing a bed with both JFK and RFK, and again under FBI surveillance, and JFK or both boasted national security secrets and mob connections that made Monroe terrified to the point she broke off contact. She could have leaked state secrets if she remained alive, or at least brought down the Kennedy administration. She may have been killed to silence her, there are many irregularities about the way she died, including a missing coroner's report.)
4) Marianna Navotny (1963, a call girl and communist, with family relations to the then-communist Czech president. Again, under FBI surveillance, and potentially destroying JFK's ability to remain president if exposed.)
5) Ellen Rometsch (1963, another call girl and East German spy, who could have been used to blackmail Kennedy or topple his presidency, another under FBI investigation. According to the documentary, the Senate wanted to open a public investigation, and RFK begged FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to recommend the Senate against it. Hoover stopped the investigation, which made the Kennedy administration subservient to Hoover from that point on. But if exposed, JFK's affair would have forced his impeachment or resignation. This last call girl was paid a large sum of cash to buy her silence, and everyone wanted her to talk. Kennedy was saved from exposure by his death.
Lyndon Johnson as president was allegedly worse. Including a sexual affair with his biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin. As we discussed in previous topics, Johnson is known to have had people killed. Potentially including his predecessor JFK, who wanted to dump LBJ as Vice President in his 1964 re-election, and possibly LBJ had him killed to allow him to be president.
Nixon, his crimes are so well known they don't need to be further detailed.
I skipped them, but FDR, Truman and Eisenhower are all known or alleged to have had extramarital affairs as well.
George H.W. Bush was also alleged to have at least one affair during his presidency.
Bill Clinton... again, I don't even need to explain his "piece of shit" insatiable compulsion for extramarital affairs. But again, unlike Trump, Clinton's affairs are PROVEN, and include sexual harassment of employees, sexual assault, and rape, not just consensual sex.
So... in light of all this, what makes Donald Trump uniquely a "piece of shit", as you turn a blind eye toward all these others who have done the same or far worse? Trump's indiscretions don't rise to the level of "piece of shit" actions by FDR, JFK, LBJ, Nixon or Bill Clinton.
Beyond partisan selective outrage, I don't see a case made for your attitude toward Trump. Anything that will smear Trump or bring him down, right?
