Anchor Juan Carlos López, from CNN en Español's Directo USA, eagerly vented his obsessive Trump Derangement Syndrome on Wednesday in a puff piece about Stephanie Clifford – aka Stormy Daniels- which was clearly aimed at eliciting sympathy for the woman that “could lead, if this process continues, to Trump potentially being charged with a crime”.
The thing is that after playing the Stormy (sob) story, Ms. Clifford failed to come across as an honest to goodness victim of the Bad Orange Man. López also dropped “the woman at the center of the controversy” like a hot potato midway into the six-minute plus report to focus instead on the left's orgiastic fantasies of another “insurrection” incited by Trump happening in Manhattan.
In other words, Stormy, sadly, was just an excuse for this report that's all about López's TDS, as we can see in his opening for the CNNEE report:
We've talked to you about the New York case. The New York case revolves around a woman that Donald Trump met in 2006, something that he denies, but who continues to occupy headlines and could lead, if this process proceeds, to Trump being accused of a possible crime. Let's see who's Stormy Daniels, the woman at the center of the controversy.
Stephany Clifford was born in Louisiana; In her autobiography published in 2018, Clifford, who rose to fame under the stage name of Stormy Daniels, revealed that she had a difficult childhood amid poverty and constant sexual abuse. As a teenager she moved to California to dabble in adult entertainment where she has worked as an exotic dancer and actress, director and producer of pornographic films. She says that in 2006 she met Donald Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. According to her, Trump's bodyguard took her to his room where she was to dine with him, but she describes an intimate relationship, something Trump denies, and provided details about Trump's anatomy. She says that Trump promised to include her in his television program The Apprentice and that is why she agreed to have relations with him until the then businessman confirmed that she could not participate. In 2018, in an interview with CBS, Daniels revealed that in 2011, she negotiated with The Enquirer magazine to reveal her relationship with Trump in exchange for $ 15,000, but that the agreement fell apart because Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump's lawyer, threatened to sue the publication. In 2016, in the middle of the presidential campaign, Cohen negotiated a deal that included paying $130,000 to ensure her silence. The lawyer made the payment from his own funds and then received a refund that, according to Donald Trump, was from his money and not from the presidential campaign. With the 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Stormy Daniels broke the deal.
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Stormy Daniels sued Trump seeking to overturn the hush agreement, but the lawsuit was dismissed and the judge ordered Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal costs incurred by Trump. But the story was already told.
In all honesty, who can take seriously a journalist who delivers gossip for news in the pungent style of Ana Navarro?
“According to her, Trump's bodyguard took her to his room where she was to dine with him, but she describes an intimate relationship, something Trump denies, and provided details about Trump's anatomy."
López goes on with what could be the script for a telenovela (soap opera): “She says that Trump promised to include her in his television program The Apprentice and that is why she agreed to have relations with him until the then businessman confirmed that she could not participate.” How did López think his audience would feel about a woman allegedly offering herself to a man in return for fame? Poor choice of words when seeking sympathy for an abused woman -- and hatred towards his eternal archenemy -- no doubt.
Heck, even López concedes to his weak case of portraying Clifford as a victim when he goes on to admit that the Stormy Daniels “story was already told.” Better then to hammer the TDS to infinity.
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Press on "expand" to view the complete transcript of the segment mentioned above as aired by on Wednesday, March 22, 2023:
CNNEE's Directo USA
March 24, 2023JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: We've talked to you about the New York case. The New York case revolves around a woman that Donald Trump met in 2006, something that he denies, but who continues to occupy headlines and could lead, if this process proceeds, to Trump being accused of a possible crime. Let's see who's Stormy Daniels, the woman at the center of the controversy. Stephany Clifford was born in Louisiana; In her autobiography published in 2018, Clifford, who rose to fame under the stage name of Stormy Daniels, revealed that she had a difficult childhood amid poverty and constant sexual abuse. As a teenager she moved to California to dabble in adult entertainment where she has worked as an exotic dancer and actress, director and producer of pornographic films. She says that in 2006 she met Donald Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. According to her, Trump's bodyguard took her to his room where she was to dine with him, but she describes an intimate relationship, something Trump denies, and provided details about Trump's anatomy. She says that Trump promised to include her in his television program The Apprentice and that is why she agreed to have relations with him until the then businessman confirmed that she could not participate. In 2018, in an interview with CBS, Daniels revealed that in 2011, she negotiated with The Enquirer magazine to reveal her relationship with Trump in exchange for $ 15,000, but that the agreement fell apart because Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump's lawyer, threatened to sue the publication. In 2016, in the middle of the presidential campaign, Cohen negotiated a deal that included paying $130,000 to ensure her silence. The lawyer made the payment from his own funds and then received a refund that, according to Donald Trump, was from his money and not from the presidential campaign. With the 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Stormy Daniels broke the deal. She assured that she received threats to not talk about the relationship during which she said Trump compared her to his daughter Ivanka. Michael Cohen was later sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to nine charges, including breaking election laws to fund women who alleged to have had intimate relationships with Trump, which the former president denies. Stormy Daniels sued Trump seeking to overturn the hush agreement, but the lawsuit was dismissed and the judge ordered Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal costs incurred by Trump. But the story was already told. Now Trump is not being prosecuted for having had a relationship with Stormy Daniels in 2006, when his daughter, when his wife, had just given birth to the last of Trump's children. The process is all about the plot of hiding the payment to ensure her silence. But what happened? Let's go to Gilbert Vega in New York. Gilbert, that grand jury meets on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday were, were expected to be today, but what happened?
GILBER VEGA: Well, Juan Carlos, the expectation remains. It didn't happen on Tuesday, as former President Trump said; It didn't happen on Wednesday. What CNN has learned is that this grand jury did not meet and that the Manhattan district attorney's office told the lawyer of one of the witnesses that he was possibly going to request that he present more testimony, which means that there is still no decision. It has also been known by the sources, is that let's say, the prosecutors are considering the nature obviously of a decision such as what would be to prosecute or present a formal accusation against a former president, something that has no precedent in this country and that also the prosecutor Alvin Bragg has obviously been taking into account and taking a moment to reorganize everything that has to do with this investigation, especially of the events that have occurred during the last days, especially after President Donald Trump himself denounced through social networks that an arrest warrant was going to be issued against him this Tuesday and that consequently, he invited his supporters to come out to protest. And, regarding that fact, Juan Carlos is known from the different sources that CNN has consulted, that the authorities, the police, continue to permanently evaluate the possible scenarios for what would be the issue of the protests. The authorities have been reinforcing all security measures and also for what would be the scenario and logistics when if that accusation is given and the president, former President Trump has to come and appear here before the District Court of Manhattan. Obviously, the tension increases after he himself called for protests to, say, against this eventual decision of prosecutor Alvin Bragg. And this has been deemed irresponsible by Mayor Eric Adams, who spoke earlier on this issue. He said there are no credible threats that the city is prepared and that they should let U.S. Attorney Alvin Bragg do his job. Here's what the mayor of New York City said:
ERIC ADAMS: First of all, it's irresponsible for him to use those type of comments
VEGA: First of all, it's irresponsible of you to make those kinds of comments and the district attorney is going to be your job. The NYPD is going to be your job. And if there's one thing we know about the city every time there are issues and concerns waiting for the right staff and I have the utmost confidence in Commissioner Sewell to do it.
ERIC ADAMS: There's a lot of speculation
VEGA: There's a lot of speculation. The NYPD has deployment plans for all circumstances. These agents make drills, mobilization plans, they are prepared. They are the best for dealing with any scenario. We don't know what's going on. There is a lot of speculation. Let the district attorney do his job and we will be ready to do ours. Juan Carlos, the members of that investigative jury who are the ones who in the end will say decide whether or not to present the charges, have to be attentive. This is what the prosecutor's office has said, according to CNN, and that call could happen again this Thursday according to these sources, Juan Carlos
LOPEZ: Well, we'll wait and see if it happens this Thursday. There are also those who believe that if it did not happen, it will probably be left for next week but, the truth is that the decision is made by that jury and prosecutor Alvin Bragg. Thank you very much Gilbert Vega from New York.
