Donald Trump (photo by Shelagh Craigh) Stormy Daniels (photo by Lukeisback.com)

The pornstar and the president, a lead in that news anchors have been using for a couple of weeks or so, and in any other time would be at least a title of a satire, but not in our new reality. Every day we have the pornstar Stormy Daniels’ (real name Stephanie Clifford), who has alleged an affair with Donald Trump, attorney on news programs slowly letting details out followed by summary denials by the White House and/or Donald Trumps attorneys. As has been mentioned on many a news program the only people Donald Trump doesn’t criticize is Vladimir Putin and Stormy Daniels. Putin, we can surmise because he has somehow compromised Donald Trump and Trump is a Russian agent, either through finances or sexual escapades, or Trump voluntarily became a part of a conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election with the goal of becoming president or damaging Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But why hasn’t he attacked Daniels? Let’s put some pieces together.

Trump and attorney Michael Cohen engineered the $130,000 payoff to Ms. Daniels before the 2016 election. Why did he make sure the payoff was made before the election? Could it be he feared what she knows? And what she knows is so distasteful, so anathema to the American public they would turn against Trump, a candidate who has claimed that he could shoot a person on fifth avenue and still be elected? What information could be so detrimental to Trump’s campaign?

The first thing to consider is could it be a matter of marital infidelity? Or sexual escapade? it has famously or infamously derailed many a candidate’s campaign and ended incumbent’s careers. In Trump’s case we’re going to have to veto that. Trump has shown no shame or contrition about any of his sexual peccadillo’s. The media has long reported on his intimate life. The legal proceedings in his divorce to first wife Ivanna were smeared across New York newspapers for weeks. He’s appeared on Howard Stern’s radio program on various occasions bragging about sexual escapades, his “Access Hollywood” interview where he boasted of kissing women and grabbing their genitals against their will, and allegations from eighteen different women of sexual impropriety (which his “Access Hollywood” tape inadvertently confirmed), he was neither cowed nor did his candidacy suffer mortally.

There is rumor that the $130,000 came from Trump’s campaign donations which if they did would be a violation of Federal Election Laws. Trump doesn’t seem to be fearing that. First of all he has Robert Mueller’s investigation breathing down his neck which has unearthed former aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates financial indiscretions and surely is on to Trump’s own financial improprieties. It may bother Trump but he doesn’t seem to consider it an existential threat to his presidency because he and his cabinet continue with business as usual and impunity with what has to be the most corrupt presidency since the Teapot Dome scandal.

What would Trump consider to be so earthshaking and devastating to his candidacy and now presidency (Trump and his agents are still doing everything to keep Ms. Daniels from talking)? What Trump seems to fear most is proof or confirmation of collusion with Vladimir Putin and Russia in the 2016 election. Trump is obviously defensive about allegations of that nature. When Hillary Clinton alluded to it in their third debate Trump violently interjected and since then regularly claims “no collusion” either in person or via Twitter. So what could Stormy Daniels have to say that would threaten Trump so thoroughly?

Could the reason be that Trump hasn’t attacked Daniels is because she has a “golden showers” story? While that allegation from the “Steele Dossier” is thus far unconfirmed, sensational, salacious, and unconfirmable, but that’s not the part Trump fears, he fears confirmation of the dossier, and to be sure if that part is confirmed it would it would prove the accuracy of the “Steele Dossier” and would confirm Trump’s collusion with Putin and Russia.

Ms. Daniels is scheduled to appear on “60 Minutes” March 25, and as the terms of her NDA (Non- Disclosure Agreement) her fine is a million dollars per violation so let her go on and if Donald Trump or any of his agents try to collect it’s an automatic admission of guilt on the president’s part.