Former doorman has been released from his exclusive contract with the Enquirer

[pepperbear]

He apparently has info on a child born out of wedlock.

[Doodley]

1. If this can be proven, Trump"s presidency is over.

[oberliner]

2. No it isn't

His supporters wouldn't care.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Right on time.

[oberliner]

10. It never fails

There is still this idea out there among some folks that Trump supporters would bail on him based on something salacious like this. I think those of us who have been following him closely recognize that this is not the case. He has cheated on all of his wives, often while they were pregnant with his kids, had sex out of wedlock with porn stars and models. Bragged on tape of grabbing women and kissing them (and worse). None of it matters to his supporters.

[theaocp]

25. Why does nobody remember

the faith leaders gave him a mulligan? That's literally ALL the sheep need to hear. They. Will. Not. Turn.

"Thank you, sir! May I have another?" is ALL they bleet.

[brush]

33. Others may very well turn though. There's tons of buyers remorse out there now...

and it's getting more pronounced with every new indictment, guilty plea and grab for immunity.

Suburban, college-educated white women are finally coming out of their fog of tribalism as the many Dem special election victories demonstrate.

That erosion scares the crap out of sitting, repug pols who will have to weigh whether their political future fares better on the trump/deplorable side of the scale or with the newly-awakened and disgusted ex-trump voters who are leaping onto the other side of the balance beam.

IMO the other side is getting heavier by the day thereby making pols more and more accountable to their opinions and less wary of offending the deplorable base which is admittedly not going anywhere but also not growing in numbers.

[oberliner]

36. Exactly

The "I can shoot someone on 5th Avenue" remark was not hyperbole.

[Doodley]

35. If the blue wave hits, Trump will be a lame duck and GOP lawmakers will start turning

Against him. This story will only.galvanize opposition and even if the GOP lose a few percent of support to ensure a blue wave, he will be history.

[oberliner]

37. Hopefully you are right

Though I daresay there are some hard core Trumpists among the current GOP lawmaker crop.

[Sherman A1]

13. Agreed

His supporters will not care and unfortunately the GOP dominated Congress are currently among those supporters.

[oberliner]

15. Exactly

The hypocrisy is stunning. The GOP cannot even purport to stand for anything related to "family values" anymore, can they?

[Sherman A1]

18. They can claim to stand for anything they can get onto Fox

and from there it all becomes "truth".

[CanonRay]

26. Exactly right

Truth, to Trump supporters, is what Fox says it is.

[paleotn]

32. For them, it's a means to an end

They would support Pol Pot if he promised to overturn Roe v Wade, Windsor and return fundygelicals to some perceived state of hegemony. The ends justify the means in the minds of Franklin Graham and his ilk

[Norbert]

17. He could have raped a woman and conseived a baby

and the trumpettes would say she must have come on to him.

[gordianot]

3. Nah

To his followers he could hunt, kill, and eat human quarry on 5th Avenue. No one better “flip” if you want to stay in good with the Trump mob.

[Funtatlaguy]

8. An abortion would hurt him much more than an out of wed child.

[oberliner]

11. Neither of those revelations would have any impact

[Sherman A1]

14. Precisely

While this may be fodder for the Breathless 24/7 Constantly Breaking Cable Infotainment Talking Head Channels, in the end it will not amount to much.

[oberliner]

16. The Access Hollywood incident was a clarifying moment in that regard

[Sherman A1]

19. Indeed it was just that.

I cannot understand how anyone with a wife or daughter could vote for him after that was released and yet, folks seemed to have a means to rationalized it all away.

[karynnj]

27. Before that, his comments on dating Ivanka if she was not his daughter

and other inappropriate comments should have made him unacceptable. I know one Republican woman for whom it did make the difference. The harder step was to get her to vote FOR Hillary, but she did.

[brush]

34. True, his deplorable base is not going anywhere, but it's also not growing...

whereas those with buyers remorse are multiplying by the day as evidenced by the many Dem special election victories.

Disgusted suburban, college-educated white women are deserting him faster than he can grab at them.

When you think about it, we've got him just where we want him—inundated with legal issues at every turn and with associates "flipping" on him daily, we don't even have to talk about impeachment. In fact, with trump and his administration unraveling before our eyes we should just let it happen and reap our benefits on Nov. 6th.

Once we have control of the House there's plenty of time to reaccess, but the need for 67 senators to convict for impeachment still has to be considered.

[Squinch]

4. Now its getting fun.

[Squinch]

5. The beauty of all these stories that are about to come out Is that

they have all been vetted. They are all true. AMI wouldn't have paid for them if they couldn't be proven.

[oberliner]

12. Why would any of this matter to his supporters?

It is already public knowledge that he had multiple affairs.

[Squinch]

24. Is that you being hopeful?

[Lucky Luciano]

30. I think it is understanding what deplorables really are.

They are just that - deplorable.

[oberliner]

38. It seems that Trump supporters care not a whit about his indiscretions

Do you see evidence to the contrary?

[honest.abe]

7. Nice!

I wonder if this was part of immunity deal with Pecker. Which would mean there might more juicy stories coming out.

[Funtatlaguy]

9. If this guy keeps spewing seedy stuff, we should name him "America's Pecker".

[gibraltar72]

20. Contrary to some I believe each revelation chips away at him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. It does. Long process. But the OP doorman is not credible, though the story might be true.

It needs corroboration. He's made other stuff up and said some true stuff. Mixed bag.

tRump's base is being chipped away. The core, not yet, and some will love him for their lifetime, like Roger Stone loves Nixon and got tattooed. He has hypnotized them and his mythology is comfortable for their delusions. He is a stupid person's idea of a smart person; a poor guy's idea of a rich man; a weakling's idea of a strong man.

But it is certainly true that tRump's base is not expanding and neither is his core.

[edhopper]

21. A Housekeeper?

Probably a woman of color. (Almost all are in NYC) Wonder how his base will feel about that?

But what would be beautiful is if she was undocumented.

[Maine-i-acs]

23. Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa? Went to the White House, Ha ha ha.

Time to reboot that old classic tune. Now set that to rap or autotune and Repeat.

[donkeypoofed]

28. I'm pretty sure the doorman said the kid's mother was Spanky's Hispanic maid

Wouldn't that be rich ?!

[samnsara]

29. and this woman hasnt come forward to demand millions from trump? she must be...

...getting monthly checks? or cash..or something to quiet her.

[Lonestarblue]

31. Trump's hardcore supporters would not care if he murdered someone in plain view of witnesses.

They would claim that witnesses were mistaken and it is all fake news. Unless,mof course,mthe murdered person was a Democrat, then it would be justifiable homicide. Where I do see these stories having an impact (though it may be small) is with independents who voted for him (for reasons I cannot understand). They are not necessarily the evangelicals who have been told that God made Trump president and anything he does is okay. They are disturbed by his separation of familes at the border and his open embrace of white supremacy, along with his obvious illegal acts before and during his presidency.

Other Republican supporters who are unlikely to care enough about Trump’s incompetence are the middle class and upper middle class who thought Trump would protect them from tax increases (which he has) and who live in their safe white enclaves. They know that Republicans will aid them in issues that are important to them, such as using charter schools to resegregate white schools that “protect” their children from having to associate with brown and black kids. They don’t really care what happens to anyone else. I know several of these people, and they don’t necessarily like Trump, but I think most of them will vote for Republicans for Congress, if for no other reason than charter schools and the use of public money for private schools. These are people who can afford the $25,000+ per year for private school tuition but want taxpayers to pay it. Selfishness is what drives Republicans, and I think nothing Trump does will get them to vote for any Democrat. Independents? Maybe.

[Scurrilous]

39. K&R