I'm liking Stephanie more with everything I learn about her. As Matt Flegenheimer, Rebecca R. Ruiz, and Katie Van Syckle write in today's New York Times:
"...for most of her professional life, Ms. Clifford has been a woman in control of her own narrative in a field where that can be uncommon."
"It is she, some in Washington now joke, and not the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who could topple Mr. Trump."
I love Wikipedia's explicit definition of what it means to be hoist on one's own petard:
Shakespeare's phrase, "hoist with his own petard," is an idiom that means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap", implying that one could be lifted (blown) upward by one's own bomb, or in other words, be foiled by one's own plan.
dt has definitely fallen into his own trap. In his attempt to silence this accomplished woman, he has defamed her. He has said she lied. But she got a good lawyer, who figured out that dt didn't even sign the nondisclosure agreement. So it's not an agreement. She is suing dt to be released from the supposed contract asking her not to speak about the one sexual encounter she had with him.
In the course of that lawsuit, dt will probably be required to testify under oath. He will probably lie, and a lie could cause him to be impeached, just as Bill Clinton was.
On the one occasion Stephanie agreed to have sex with him, he had trapped her. After he invited her on a date on July 13, 2006, she arrived at his hotel room to find him wearing only pajama bottoms. This encounter occurred at a celebrity golf tournament near South Lake Tahoe.
How many women has dt assaulted or exploited? No one knows.
But he ran into one woman who knows how to handle men like him, and she may well be the trigger that ends his presidency.
The abuser becomes prey.
As several news commentators are pointing out, dt has not made a single tweet against Clifford. He's afraid of her.
Read the brief biography of Stephanie Clifford written by Flegenheimer, Ruiz, and Van Syckle, cited above: "Porn Star Suing Trump Is Known for Her Ambition: 'She's the Boss.'"
She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and originally thought she might become a veterinarian, a writer, or a journalist.
She now owns her own business and tours nationally doing "adult entertainment"--which should be known as entertainment for males whose mental and emotional growth got stuck in their teens.
She connects "her professional journey to the lives of service workers... the dishwasher, the cashier or the bus driver," note the authors of the NYT article.
Go Stephanie!
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