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Here’s one thing that caught my attention in the piece Jake Weisberg posted today about Stormy Daniels and President Trump. It seems pretty clear that Daniels and Trump didn’t just have an “encounter” but a relationship over a number of months not long after Trump married Melania Knauss. We can’t prove this. But she seems to have told a number of people about it at the time and since. She also appears to have a decent amount of evidence to back it up. Trump also paid Daniels’ $130,000 for silence, which speaks for itself. In any case, there’s a small detail that caught my attention in connection to that story about a troupe of prostitutes Trump was allegedly offered in Moscow in 2013.