Reporter Uses Stormy Daniels’ Testimony On Spanking Trump To Defend Print Journalism
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Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball jokingly noted that there are some things you can do with magazines that can't be done with other forms of media.
Porn actor Stormy Daniels has been called a lot of names in her career, but an endorser of print journalism isn’t one of them.
That is, until Thursday, when Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball made the case for Daniels based on her recent testimony during Donald Trump’s hush money case that she spanked the former president with a magazine during their alleged sexual encounter in 2006.
On Tuesday, Daniels said that she was asked to go to dinner with Trump, and his bodyguard arranged for her to meet the then-reality TV show star at his hotel room.
They never went to dinner, and Daniels said there was some initial awkwardness between the two before she grabbed a magazine with Trump’s face on it and spanked him, which led to a two-hour chat.
But Ball saw something bigger in what Daniels did to Trump and shared her thoughts on it in a panel appearance on CNN.
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