Stormy Nation
May 9, 2024 (1)
Stormy Daniels, who preferred to be addressed in court by this identifier rather than her given name, Stephanie Clifford, has finished testifying before judge and jury in the first criminal trial of a former President. She is also the second woman — since E. Jean Carroll — to have sued the former President for defamation. (2) According to Andrew Weismann, MSNBC legal contributor and a former Federal prosecutor, her testimony, in the People v Donald Trump New York trial, “knocked it out of the park.”
One among many synchronous connections between Watergate and the Trump election violations which fueled the insurrection of January 6, 2021 are that the primary whistleblowers — to a person — are women.
Consider that both Martha Mitchell and Stormy Daniels, publicly sought for corroborating conspiracy and obstruction in “high places,” are victims of “gaslighting.”
My partner and I recently revisited “Gaslit,” a 2022 TV miniseries (3) on the Watergate break-in coverup from the personal trajectory of Martha Mitchell, wife and career partner of former Attorney General John Mitchell. This re-viewing was triggered by my partner reading a mention about the series in a recent New Yorker expose of exposing poseurs, “So You Think You’ve Been Gaslit,” by Leslie Jamison. (4)
