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fleur-de-lisa

(14,625 posts)
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:09 PM Apr 2018

RNC deputy finance chair resigns after reports of $1.6 million payment to Playboy Playmate

Source: Politico

GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy has stepped down as Republican National Committee deputy finance chair, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The departure followed reports on Friday afternoon that in 2017, President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen had negotiated a $1.6 million payment on Broidy’s behalf to a Playboy Playmate who said that Broidy had impregnated her.

The resignation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/rnc-deputy-finance-chair-broidy-resigns-522867

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RNC deputy finance chair resigns after reports of $1.6 million payment to Playboy Playmate (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 OP
Not to worry; Cohen and Wynn can pick up the slack. brooklynite Apr 2018 #1
The RNC has not returned Wynn's Wellstone ruled Apr 2018 #6
Oh! Life is GOOD at the top! bucolic_frolic Apr 2018 #2
Grass roots donors will be overjoyed at hearing that's where their money goes. keithbvadu2 Apr 2018 #3
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Apr 2018 #4
He looks like tRump! Scarsdale Apr 2018 #5
Kick for the cavers outraged by Al Franken. Kingofalldems Apr 2018 #7
And look who else is involved - Stormy and McDougal's lawyer Keith Davidson, and George Nader! muriel_volestrangler Apr 2018 #8
+1 dalton99a Apr 2018 #10
Good gawd. progressoid Apr 2018 #13
The RNC must think he is a hot potato! riversedge Apr 2018 #14
Nice catch. Hard to keep up with all the fools in Trump World. Pepsidog Apr 2018 #19
Now that is some expensive sex. Marie Marie Apr 2018 #9
So... Why is the entire media not demanding the GOP Blue_Tires Apr 2018 #11
I'm so confused. caballojm Apr 2018 #12
well said spooky3 Apr 2018 #15
"Draining the swamp" A Definition: TrollBuster9090 Apr 2018 #17
Having SEEN the guy, I'm not sure $1,600,000 was anywhere enough... TrollBuster9090 Apr 2018 #16
Too much money in politics Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #18
Dont feel bad for Broidys wife, she is the one who had a illegal $75 million fee agreement for Pepsidog Apr 2018 #20
He knocked up a Playmate and only paid $1.6 Million? Grins Apr 2018 #21

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. He looks like tRump!
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:34 PM
Apr 2018

The party of "family values" never ceases to amaze. They must have a good laugh when they repeat that phrase.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
8. And look who else is involved - Stormy and McDougal's lawyer Keith Davidson, and George Nader!
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:57 PM
Apr 2018
Then one day, Broidy did have a problem. Seems his Playboy model girlfriend was pregnant. And who should sidle up to him with a solution in hand but Michael Cohen! As Broidy told the WSJ,

Mr. Cohen reached out to me after being contacted by this woman’s attorney, Keith Davidson. Although I had not previously hired Mr. Cohen, I retained Mr. Cohen after he informed me about his prior relationship with Mr. Davidson.
...
Are you trying to remember where you’ve heard the name Elliot Broidy? Well let’s hop in the Wonkette time machine and find out.

And the fact that Nader, who is paid by the Saudis and the Emiratis, funneled millions of foreign dollars to Broidy, from an Emirati company controlled by Nader to a Canadian company controlled by Broidy, before it finally landed at some wingnutty DC think tanks (to pay for “conferences”), is probably fine and not any evidence of money laundering or Saudi Arabia and the UAE bribing the Trump White House to do stuff. And Nader constantly and insistently lobbying Broidy to set up a secret off-the-books meeting between Trump and the crown prince of the UAE is probably totally normal too.

Broidy even planned a special trip for Nader to get to go to Mar-a-Lago for the celebration of Trump’s first year in office, which would have been hella fun had Robert Mueller not met Nader at the airport and stolen his boarding pass.

That’s right, Broidy is the wheeler-dealer flogging his security company and whipping up White House sentiment against Qatar. And, oh, by the way, Broidy barely escaped going to jail in 2012 in a pay-to-play bribery scandal by turning state’s evidence.


Read more at https://wonkette.com/632536/trump-buddy-paid-off-his-own-playmate-for-1-6-million-and-guess-who-brokered-the-deal#sRTMKV3OSYhvw0P8.99

Yes, that's George Nader, pedophile and cooperating Mueller witness:

The Wall Street Journal just published a stunning scoop. In 2017 Michael Cohen negotiated a $1.6 million hush deal for a major GOP fundraiser named Elliott Broidy, deputy finance chairman of the RNC. If that name rings a bell, it should. Broidy is at the center of the part of the Russia probe involving the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and international fixer and convicted pedophile George Nader.

Nader, in turn, is the guy who set up those meetings in the Seychelles which brought together Erik Prince and that Russian banker. Both Nader and Broidy have been frequent visitors to the White House during Trump’s presidency and involved in ways that are still not totally clear in the mix of money negotiations, geopolitics and Russia back channels with a series of Gulf emirates.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-all-connected

Why, I was talking about Keith Davidson just yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2036188

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
14. The RNC must think he is a hot potato!
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:40 PM
Apr 2018



nytimes.com
R.N.C. Official Who Agreed to Pay Playboy Model $1.6 Million Resigns

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/us/politics/elliott-broidy-michael-cohen-payout.html
Rebecca R. Ruiz and Jim Rutenberg
April 13 2018



Elliott Broidy, center, an R.N.C. official, with Larry Mizel, left, a Trump donor, and Jeff Sessions. A $1.6 million deal with a model Mr. Broidy impregnated was arranged by President Trump’s lawyer Michael D. Cohen. Clint Spaulding/WWD, via Rex, via Shutterstock



A major donor with close ties to the White House resigned on Friday as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee after the revelation that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who became pregnant during an affair.

The deal was arranged by President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

Under the terms of the deal, the Republican donor, Elliott Broidy, would pay the woman in installments over the course of two years, and in return, she would agree to stay silent about their relationship, two people with knowledge of the arrangement told The New York Times. The deal was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The lawyer for the woman, Keith M. Davidson, also represented two women who were paid during the presidential campaign for their silence about alleged affairs with Mr. Trump — a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, who sold the rights to her story to American Media Inc., and Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic actress known as Stormy Daniels, who received a payment of $130,000 that Mr. Cohen said came out of his own pocket.............

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
19. Nice catch. Hard to keep up with all the fools in Trump World.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:56 PM
Apr 2018

It’s all been said so many times but what a toxic cess pool of corruption that makes up the Republican Party.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
11. So... Why is the entire media not demanding the GOP
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:04 PM
Apr 2018

return his filthy money like they did with us and Weinstein??

caballojm

(272 posts)
12. I'm so confused.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:11 PM
Apr 2018

Can someone please explain what "draining the swamp" actually means? My interpretation is clearly wrong. When I think back to the eight years of the Obama presidency and compare it with now, I feel like we went from this clean, clear, beautiful lake to the stinkiest, boggiest, scummiest, most polluted, and pest infested REPUGnant swamp ever seen.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
17. "Draining the swamp" A Definition:
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:47 PM
Apr 2018

Draining the Swamp: Letting water out of the swamp until all the snakes, alligators, leaches, and bottom feeding detritivores are now on the TOP.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
16. Having SEEN the guy, I'm not sure $1,600,000 was anywhere enough...
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:45 PM
Apr 2018

to allow Jabba the Hut to get into a position where he could 'impregnate her.'



Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
20. Dont feel bad for Broidys wife, she is the one who had a illegal $75 million fee agreement for
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:09 PM
Apr 2018

dubious legal work for a foreign company or government. I can’t recall the exact nature of the deal but it was something along the lines of if she could settle within year a legal dispute about the recovery of 100s of millions of dollars stolen by a government official of a Malaysian country then she would get $75 -$80 million. Something along those lines. Basically it was a deal where is she can leverage her friendship with Trump to get the DOJ to settle the case then she would get some crazy fee of $75 million which is not a legal fee agreement. Sounds like she wanted to make a few calls and make millions. Why not,all the other swamp creatures are doing it.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
21. He knocked up a Playmate and only paid $1.6 Million?
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:13 PM
Apr 2018

Should have been more, or at least include a contract that covers her and the child in situations beyond their control.

'Sez I...

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