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 Trumps attorney Michael Cohen had negotiated a $1.6 million payment on Broidys 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
brooklynite
(94,591 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)donations as of yet. What a major disgrace to the world.
bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)Do what you want, pay people off and make them go away. Family values!
keithbvadu2
(36,820 posts)SunSeeker
(51,568 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)The party of "family values" never ceases to amaze. They must have a good laugh when they repeat that phrase.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Fake outrage.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)Mr. Cohen reached out to me after being contacted by this womans 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.
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Are you trying to remember where youve heard the name Elliot Broidy? Well lets 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 Trumps first year in office, which would have been hella fun had Robert Mueller not met Nader at the airport and stolen his boarding pass.
Thats 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 states 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:
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 Trumps 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
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)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 Trumps 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 Trumps 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)Its all been said so many times but what a toxic cess pool of corruption that makes up the Republican Party.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Hope it was worth it.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)return his filthy money like they did with us and Weinstein??
caballojm
(272 posts)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.
spooky3
(34,457 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)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)to allow Jabba the Hut to get into a position where he could 'impregnate her.'
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)dubious legal work for a foreign company or government. I cant 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)Should have been more, or at least include a contract that covers her and the child in situations beyond their control.
'Sez I...