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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by c3534l on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:12AM (#19112906)
Didn't he pay off a former pornstar tons of money to stay quiet about having sex with him? Doesn't seem implausible when he's already paid millions in hush money to keep embarassing personal info from leaking.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by cm2187 on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:15AM (#19112914)
So then blackmailing seems to be a viable strategy! Merely pointing at the contradiction.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by blattimwind on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:42AM (#19113016)
Actually... yes. If you got some (obviously very narcisstic) person that's known to have paid (a lot) of hush money, then that person likely is a viable target for blackmail.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jorblumesea on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:48AM (#19114613)
The issue isn't that blackmail works or doesn't work, it's that it only works on some people. Trump is an obvious and clear candidate for blackmail, given his personality. Bezos is not.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jki275 on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:10AM (#19114211)
And that worked so well she wrote a book about it...
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by ceejayoz on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:24AM (#19114340)
It would've continued to work just fine if Trump hadn't run for President. Breaking the NDA doesn't make financial sense when he's a C-list celebrity; it does when he's suddenly the President.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jki275 on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:13PM (#19125001)
Trump hasn't been a "c-list celebrity" ever. He's been a very famous and very well known celebrity for over four decades.

Even the left used to like him until he ran for president.

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