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It's Tuesday, March 27, 2018, from Slate It's The Gest.

I'm Mike Pesca.

I was watching TV the other day.

There was this stormy Daniels lady on 22 million of my fellow Americans join me in watching her.

On 60 minutes, remember the days when we used to be moaned the fact, oh my god, the president slept with a porn star.

No one paid attention.

Well now, everyone's paying attention.

Are we that much better off for it?

I mean, Trump is mean and cruel in a moral and dastard land as lawyer Michael Cohen seems like a thuggish

miscreant of the lowest order.

But in terms of risk, actual legal risk, what are we talking about here?

Perhaps there was a federal election law violation.

That will be a fine.

He will pay a penalty.

Perhaps this will annoy him to the point where he goes berserk and hoist himself by his own pittard.

But why is this the scandal that's occupying us?

It's not really going to bring him down unless he decides to implode.

I mean, we're talking about a guy who's violating the emoluments clause every day.

And Jared Kushner, oh my god, Jared Kushner's business got half a billion dollars in loans with firms after he took meetings with those firms.

And the White House and his dad, former federal and made Charles Kushner, met with the Qataris and asked them for a loan.

Also, after the election in a separate meeting, there was a deal for a loan for half a billion dollars from the Qataris.

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