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As Trump wails and flails into irrelevance, one loose end I still don't quite get is how quickly most establishment press was to dismiss the idea that he exerted leverage through blackmail.
Inarguably, he came into office far more familiar with how supermarket tabloids work than government, and blackmail as a key part of doing business was his pal Pecker's stock in trade.
And as a case study, this whole thing played out before this election.
Cohen stayed friends with Falwell, so he never really completely dropped the dime on him, but these dots are eminently connectable.
Sure there was some apparent quid pro quo.
But come on.
Even the threat of a mean tweet was blackmail, but I think it's fairly reasonable to assume Trump would use whatever he could get. He went from having the National Enquirer vault on his side to god knows what foreign and domestic intel loyalists slipping him the goods.
