Dent: GOP Has Been ‘Pretty Damn Silent’ On Stormy Daniels Allegations

UNITED STATES - MARCH 15: Chairman Charlie Dent, R-Pa., conducts  a House Appropriations Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on the Veterans Affairs Department's FY2019 budget featuring testimony by Secretary David Shulkin on March 15, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - MARCH 15: Chairman Charlie Dent, R-Pa., conducts a House Appropriations Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on the Veterans Affairs D... UNITED STATES - MARCH 15: Chairman Charlie Dent, R-Pa., conducts a House Appropriations Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on the Veterans Affairs Department's FY2019 budget featuring testimony by Secretary David Shulkin on March 15, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS
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Retiring Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) lambasted his own party for hypocrisy in its reaction to President Donald Trump’s alleged affair with a porn actress on Tuesday evening.

During an interview with CNN, he said Republicans have been “pretty damn silent” about the President’s alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels, compared to the way the party reacted when former President Bill Clinton had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

“They’d be waving a bloody shirt, it would be a human rights violation,” Dent told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Bill Clinton, let’s face it, I wasn’t in Congress back then, but a lot of folks were pretty darn alarmed and outraged and had a strong voice about the character, saying character counts. And now that the shoe is on the other foot, a lot of those same folks are pretty damn silent.”

He said there was “no question” that Republicans would be “screaming, you know, morning to night” if a Democratic president had been “conciliatory toward the Russians, for example” like Trump has reportedly been.

Dent said he thought both porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal were “credible” and suggested their alleged affairs with Trump were not surprising because Trump is “no choir boy.”

Trump has been uncharacteristically silent in recent weeks as both Daniels and McDougal have publicly recounted parts of their alleged affairs with the President a decade ago. Both women have tangled Trump in lawsuits over his alleged attempts to silence them about the relationships.

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  1. Upon announcing their retirement apparently they’re issued spines.

  2. Come to the Blue Side, Charlie! Look inside yourself! You know you desire this!

  3. GOP: We are a big tent party. Prostitutes and deviant sexual behavior matters only when Democrats do it.

  4. I wasn’t in Congress back then, but a lot of folks were pretty darn alarmed and outraged and had a strong voice about the character, saying character counts. And now that the shoe is on the other foot, a lot of those same folks are pretty damn silent.”
    Fuck off and follow the money
    The masters have dictated what is to be said about what
    No surprise here

  5. A lot of people are saying that that Cuck Kushner’s so-called children were watching the Discovery Channel show on sharks and that Ivanka Trump was fondly reminiscing how she too loved watching shark shows with their orange grandpa.

    They then asked their mom who was Stormy Daniels was. She switched to the Playboy channel and explained that Stormy Daniels was a model, dancer and movie star like their baby grandma, the one that was an architect and just had the same plastic surgery mommy got. She told them that orange grandpa was playing “I will show you mine if you will show me yours” and spanking games with his pants pulled down in the sandlot with Stormy Daniels instead of with baby grandma.

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