In-Touch reporter Jordi Lippe-McGraw was the one approached prior to the 2016 election by Stormy Daniels when she was seeking to tell her story. After the payout, however, the communication cut off. Now that Daniels has come forward, McGraw has spoken about her knowledge of the story on cable news for the last week.
Friday, however, McGraw's comments took a different route, warning there was more forthcoming.
"This story is just, not ending," said Lippe-McGraw. "Like, the In-Touch interview coming out after the Wall Street Journal, it's just building and building and building. And it's going to hit a point where they can't back away from this. And, I think this is just the beginning, to be completely honest."
Host Ari Melber noted there seems to be strategic advice surrounding this scandal of "deny, deny, claim you won in secret arbitration" instead of "deny, deny, deny."
Huffington Post reporter Lauren Bassett confessed she isn't privy to the specifics around the scandal but she does know that Trump has consistently lied about having knowledge of the payout. She cited Daniels' lawyer, who said it was ludicrous that an attorney would issue a $130,000 payoff without his client knowing.
She also said that Trump portrayed himself as the honest candidate in 2016. He might have been a wild card, she said, but he was always the one who never lied to the American people. This issue proves the opposite is the case.
"He's way more corrupt than she ever was," Bassett said comparing Trump to former rival Hillary Clinton.
"There's so much evidence out there now that I don't know how they're going to figure out their way around it," McGraw said in agreement. "I feel like when The Wall Street Journal report first came out, it was one report that they could say 'No, no, no.' And even Stormy Daniels did. And the In-Touch report came out, with a 2,000-word transcript that just can't be made up."
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