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Left: Stormy Daniels at the Gossip Gentleman club in Long Island, N.Y., in 2018. Right: Then-president Donald Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., in 2021.
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It’s not as though he was the innocent victim, but when Donald Trump and his legal team say that Stormy Daniels extorted him, they are right.
From one perspective, this is another perversity of the case — Stormy Daniels engaged in a kind of extortion, and yet Trump is the one the authorities have tried their utmost to nail to the wall.
About the Author
Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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It’s not as though he was the innocent victim, but when Donald Trump and his legal team say that Stormy Daniels extorted him, they are right.
From one perspective, this is another perversity of the case — Stormy Daniels engaged in a kind of extortion, and yet Trump is the one the authorities have tried their utmost to nail to the wall.
About the Author
Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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