Don't publicize it before you publish it

Apparently In Touch has a 2011 Stormy Daniels interview - BEFORE she signed a non-disclosure agreement not to talk about her affair with Trump - that they're planning on releasing.

Yet, even moreso than the Wolff book, I'd imagine, do they not think Trump will file legal proceedings to have it stopped?  Is it ready to go when he does?

Like Jeff Flake's anti-Trump tirade on the floor of the Senate today, having previously let out what he was planning to do, there were only two Senators there to hear him.  You have to spring these things on people.  Hardly anything comes out as something out of the blue any more.

According to Daniels, she and Trump first met at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006, just four months after his youngest son Barron was born. Trump asked for Daniels’ number and invited her to dinner. When she arrived, he was wearing sweatpants (elsewhere described as pajama pants, which will no doubt give fodder to Trump deniers to say it's all made up), and they ended up eating in his hotel room. She excused herself to the bathroom and when she emerged, Daniels told InTouch Trump was sitting on the bed and invited her to join him.

“Ugh, here we go,” thought Daniels. She described the sex as “textbook generic.”

  Daily Beast

Ugh? Why do it then? (In another article she says she doesn't know why she did it.)

In the print version of the magazine, Daniels expanded further, describing the sex as "nothing crazy. It was one position, what you would expect someone his age to do." She also said that they did not use protection, which, the magazine reported, "is unlike her."

Hoping for some lifetime blackmail material?

"He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with, beautiful, smart, just like his daughter.”

Gross.

Daniels didn’t leave much out in describing the affair, which involved a few more encounters in the months following their first tryst in Tahoe.

According to the source, the transcript contains details of “[w]hat he’s like in bed, pillow talk, she talks about what he’s like down there…”

Something we all want to know, right?

Daniels was not paid for the interview.

Well, that's something.

Can't wait to find out who broke it off.

Sad!

UPDATE:

Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, did indeed have a story about Trump, which she related to me in a series of phone conversations and text exchanges that took place between August and October of 2016.

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She didn’t allege any kind of abuse, insisting she was not a victim. The worst Trump had done, she said, was break promises she’d never believed he would fulfill.

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Daniels said she had some corroborating evidence, including the phone numbers of Trump’s longtime personal assistant Rhona Graff and his bodyguard Keith Schiller, with whom she said she would arrange rendezvous. While she did not share those numbers with me, I did speak to three of Daniels’ friends, all of whom said they knew about the affair at the time, and all of whom confirmed the outlines of her story.

Given what was going on in the final weeks of the campaign, during which Trump was facing a torrent of accusations of sexual abuse, I didn’t think an extramarital affair would be a highly significant story. What interested me more was Daniels’ allegation that Trump had negotiated to buy her silence.

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Daniels told me that agreement involved a complicated arrangement to shield the real names of the parties.

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Another provision in the document I saw stated that only Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson and a lawyer for the other party would be allowed to retain copies of the side-letter agreement identifying the parties by their actual names.

Daniels said she was talking to me and sharing these details because Trump was stalling on finalizing the confidentiality agreement and paying her. Given her experience with Trump, she suspected he would stall her until after the election, and then refuse to sign or pay up.

As an alternative to being paid for her silence, Daniels wanted to be paid for her story. [...] Daniels said she wanted, in her words, something to show for her experience.

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I told Daniels that Slate did not pay sources but encouraged her to come forward without compensation. I proposed interviewing her on Trumpcast and writing her story. She never said yes and never said no. [...] I gathered that Daniels was also discussing going public on Good Morning America. At one point she considered holding a press conference in Dallas, where she lives.

And then, about a week before the election, Daniels stopped responding to calls and text messages. A friend of hers told me Daniels had said she’d taken the money from Trump after all.

  Slate

UPDATE 1/19:

Full interview.