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The Guardian - UK
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Marina Hyde

Now we know: in Trump’s fantasy comeback, he’ll be wearing handcuffs

Trump supporter with flag
‘Even with Trump facing criminal charges, it is difficult to shake the sense that it is still his world, and that we just live in it.’ Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

“I actually don’t even know why I did it,” porn star Stormy Daniels once reflected of the “textbook generic” sex she claimed to have had with Donald Trump after some cursed-sounding Nevada golf tournament. “But I do remember while we were having sex I was like: ‘Please don’t try to pay me.’”

Well, quite. If ONLY Trump had stuck to the non-payment he presumably agreed in the heat of passion in that Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2006, instead of allegedly getting his lawyer to hand hush money to Daniels when he was running for president a decade later. He is now facing an estimated 34 charges of falsification of business records, believed to relate to payments to both Stormy and the former Playboy model Karen McDougal. As the former president once observed, vaginas are “potential landmines … There’s some real danger there.”

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