The news today may be full of Roseanne Barr, but sooner or later things are going to inevitably turn back to the matter of the president and the porn star. Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford), whom Barr's tweets about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett may have pushed off the front pages for a while, is a story too juicy not to come back.
She's become, oddly enough given her chosen line of work, a symbol of the left's resistance to Trump. On May 24 the city fathers in West Hollywood, one of the seedier parts of the City of Angels, gave her the key to the city in recognition of her efforts to help bring down Trump with whom, she says, she engaged in an illicit and adulterous encounter.
At its heart, the Daniels story is being promoted, not just because of its impact on ratings and its ability to bring eyeballs to news sites but because the left believes it will drive a wedge between Trump—who was not president at the time Daniels alleges they were intimate—and the bloc of politically-active, conservative evangelical voters who are his strongest supporters.
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