Stormy Daniels is still running circles around President Trump

Another point to Stormy

Stormy Daniels.
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If I had told you two years ago that Donald Trump will be elected president, and his most bedeviling public antagonist will be an adult film actress, you probably would have said, "The first part sounds outlandish to me, but if it happens, the second part sounds about right."

For months, Trump has all but silent in public about Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, her name not passing his tweeting fingers — until this week. Maybe the stress of having his lawyer's office raided got to him ("Trump was so upset, in fact, that he had trouble concentrating on plans that were laid out for him that day by his national security team about potential options for targeted missile strikes on Syria," The Washington Post reported). But on Wednesday, after Daniels went on The View and released a sketch of the man she says threatened her in a parking lot in 2011 if she were to speak publicly about her alleged affair with Trump, he couldn't hold it in anymore:

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.