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pnwmom

(109,000 posts)
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:33 PM Feb 2018

Daily Mail is sometimes disparaged here as a British tabloid, but hats off to them

Last edited Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:17 AM - Edit history (1)

for the Rob Porter story.

These women have been speaking out for years, but it took this story -- and photos -- to get anything to happen.



ON UPDATE: A third woman has come forward (as reported in the second story below).


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5362823/Ex-wife-WH-aide-dating-Hope-Hicks-says-choked-her.html

EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks' new boyfriend Rob Porter RESIGNS from White House after BOTH ex-wives accuse him of abuse - including one who told DailyMail.com that he CHOKED and PUNCHED her

Rob Porter has resigned from his role as White House staff secretary after a series of DailyMail.com revelations about violence towards his ex-wives

Colbie Holderness, 37, a senior analyst for the U.S. government and Porter's first wife, spoke on the record to DailyMail.com about their five-year marriage

The couple met in 2000 at their Mormon church while they were in college
'He was never physically abusive until our honeymoon and that floored me,' Holderness told DailyMail.com

SNIP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5365169/Woman-living-Hope-Hicks-lover-Rob-Porter-abused.html

The two ex-wives of Rob Porter, the White House aide who resigned today in the wake of domestic abuse allegations, revealed to DailyMail.com they were in contact with a third woman who is believed to be his longtime girlfriend.

The woman, is 34 and works for the federal government in Washington D.C.

DailyMail.com is declining to name her because she is an alleged victim of domestic abuse and she has not come forward. Repeated attempts to contact her have been unsuccessful.

Porter, 40, had been living with the willowy blonde political appointee, who split with him around Thanksgiving, after discovering suggestive text messages between Porter and White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest and most trusted advisors.


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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
3. Daily mail framed liberal mp, befriended Hitler and Mussolini, anti global warming, the worst
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:58 PM
Feb 2018

But fun. I admit I have them bookmarked. Just know not to believe them.

They pay for stories and photos so they often have juicy stuff.

pnwmom

(109,000 posts)
4. They don't appear to be anti climate change now, based on recent articles.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:19 AM
Feb 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5338917/Global-temperatures-break-1-5-C-FIVE-years.html

Global temperatures could break through the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold within FIVE years and cause weather chaos, Met Office warns

Average temperatures could be 1.5°C higher during the period 2018 and 2022

This is the first time such high values have been highlighted by the Met Office

Last year was almost 1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels from 1850 to 1900


Cicada

(4,533 posts)
9. Interesting. They were cited by some press agency for recent climate lies, maybe it got thru
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:03 AM
Feb 2018

The UKpress regulator forcedThe Mail on Sunday, their Sunday paper, to run a lengthy correction about a David Rose article, published Feb 2017, busted Sept. Maybe that scared them. Maybe their Sunday paper has a different editorial slant? But the guy who ran them in the thirties was literally a friend of Benito and Adolph, they literally ran a forged letter attributed to a liberal mp to successfully swing parliament to conservatives around 1920. They have been evil, like Fox. But since Cicada is not my real name I can confess I read them everyday for the dirty celebrity photos people likeKim’s mom wants me to see, I know I will go to hell for it, and some other actually interesting stories.

pnwmom

(109,000 posts)
10. I can't get too excited about terrible things they did 100 years ago. And they are a tabloid.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:22 AM
Feb 2018

But sometimes, especially with interviews, they are a real source.

The British paper I really respect, though, is The Guardian. As I remember it, they were the only paper that didn't go on the Amanda Knox hunt -- a subject I followed closely at the time. Their coverage was fair.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
14. I first visited UK almost 50 years ago and just over the papers, esp Guardian
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 07:04 AM
Feb 2018

Unlike our bland namely pamby papers their news actually told what was REALLY happening. What the news really meant. And best of the best was the Guardian, writing to die for. On my second visit Clement Freud was running for parliament He actually visited the district. He said he could not be sure but he thought his opponent never visited the district because he was, in fact, a midget. At another rally in a big barn in the Cotswold he said I’m looking at my Watch not because it’s late but because this Watch has great sentimental value to me. On his death bed my famous grandfather, Sigmund Freud, sold me this Watch.

What a breath of fresh air their politics was.

Cha

(297,774 posts)
5. Rob Porter is a
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:26 AM
Feb 2018

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heavy handed serial abuser of women.

And, trump's COS stuck up for him.. What was it Kelly said?.. ".. Porter had honor and integrity.."?..

just like trump is a serial sexual predator.. but the Russians couldn't care less.. neither did his screaming fans. Nor stein and sarandon when they lied.. "..Hillary is more dangerous than trump"***

***Reposted from another thread on Portman.

Like scheming daemons said..

The Brits are going to help us save our Republic

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10202778

Thank you, pnwmom

Edit.. I don't know why I was calling him "Portman"

ismnotwasm

(42,014 posts)
6. Agree.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:28 AM
Feb 2018

It’s still a shitshow because Trump and everything he touches, but I hope these women find closure and justice

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
7. It's typically a very RW rag...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:46 AM
Feb 2018

but of late they have been publishing very anti-Trump pieces...not sure what has changed

iluvtennis

(19,880 posts)
8. Hope Hicks knows how to pick em...Corey Lewandowski who assaulted a woman
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:02 AM
Feb 2018

at a Trump rally and now this winner Porter.

pnwmom

(109,000 posts)
13. Yeah, they like to hype everything, and they hyped that all right. It will be interesting
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:35 AM
Feb 2018

to see if the Democratic response gets the same treatment, or if they smother it.

In the meantime, they did publish this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5349421/John-McCain-condemns-release-Republican-memo.html

John McCain condemns release of the GOP memo and says 'we are doing Putin's job for him'
McCain released a written statement on Friday when the memo was declassified
GOP Senator said that 'partisan attacks' on the FBI serve 'only Putin's interests'
Memo charges the FBI relied primarily on a politically-motivated dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele
Republicans claim it shows bias in the FBI at the onset of the Russia probe
The FBI had opposed the memo's release, citing 'grave concerns about material omissions of fact'
President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that the memo 'vindicated' him


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