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The Seth Rich lawsuit matters more than the Stormy Daniels case | Jill Abramson

The president causes mayhem in a deliberate ploy to distract us from even more serious news stories
Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

When I hear the name Stormy Daniels, and that’s a lot lately, I have the same vision inside my head. It’s Donald Trump, right before the presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in St Louis on 9 October 2016. At the time, I, along with just about everyone I knew, mistakenly thought Trump was finished because the notorious Access Hollywood tape had just come out.

But there he was sitting next to three women with far less memorable names – Paula, Kathleen and Juanita – who had Bill Clinton of past sexual harassment and assault. Trump had claimed, without offering evidence, that Hillary had brutalized and threatened the women in order to silence them. He brought them to St Louis to rattle Clinton. (This was also the debate in which he loomed over Clinton, Frankenstein style).

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