ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR POLITICAL & OTHERWISE APRIL 10, 2018

You can't look forward in the presidency of Donald Trump without looking back. Women and real estate have been at the center of Trump’s life for many years. But his New York City playboy life may be catching up with him.

A porn star and former Playboy Playmate could now be the ones to bring down the Trump presidency. Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal have turned the tables on Trump using all the publicity possible to expose their alleged extramarital affairs with the president, as well as the hush money they were paid shortly before the election. The two women claim to have had the affairs with Trump while he was married to his wife Melania.

Attempts to silence Daniels and McDougal have resoundingly failed. The hush money both received became the target of this week's extraordinary FBI raid on Donald Trump's personal attorney’s office and residence. Trump attorney Michael Cohen has admitted paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000.00 and negotiating a non-disclosure agreement just weeks before the election.

Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal's money came via a deal with the National Enquirer which is owned by Trump friend David Pecker. How much additional money, where it came from, and how many others have been paid by Cohen and Pecker to cover for Trump remains in question. The money trail, using a shell corporation(s) for the purpose of making these payments, raised alerts focusing on Federal finance laws and potential money laundering.

Trump is reportedly seething, but he’s not lashing out directly at Daniels and McDougal. Instead, he chooses to distract us with talk once again of firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Republicans appear to be surprisingly vocal in their warnings to the president about the potential firings of these men. If Trump fires anyone in the chain of command over Mueller, or the Special Counsel himself, talk of a constitutional crisis will begin.

 No matter the serious distractions Trump tries to use, investigations into breaking Federal finance laws and money laundering involving payments to women in his life are not going away.

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