‘It was scary but it wasn’t like it was life-threatening. For years, I would go to Mormon bishops and I would try to find the words to explain what was going on but I was at a loss beyond the explanation that he got physical with me.’

The violence escalated to where Porter was choking his wife.

‘It was not hard enough for me to pass out but it was scary, humiliating and dehumanizing,’ she said.

‘It wasn’t until I went to a secular counsellor at my work place one summer and told him what was going on that he was the first person, and not a male religious leader, who told me that what was happening was not okay.’

Porter was a Mormon who spent two years on his missionary trip. He met Holderness (nee Paulson), who was also a Mormon, after he returned. She naturally spoke with bishops about her relationship, but it’s clear they wanted her to stick with her husband no matter how abusive he was. Divorce wasn’t an option.

Anonymous wrote:How do we know that WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, WH Communications Director Hope Hicks, Gary Cohn, and WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter were all in a room together concocting a cover story for the Rob Porter scandal? Has that meeting been reported somewhere? If so, could you please provide a link?

Also, if such a meeting really took place, what the h@ll was Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, and chief economic advisor to the President, doing there? He is above all this, and containing White House scandals does not fall into his domain.

PM/PC to Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn,: Pull a Karen Pence here, and order Gary never to meet alone or privately with Hope Hicks. She has shown a propensity to date within the office pool, and tends to prefer powerful, older men. Gary is strangely attractive, powerful, and very wealthy. Checks all the boxes!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot find the reference to such a meeting in Dave Martosko's Twitter feed.

And Josh Raffel, who the heck is that? Links to meeting articles please?

Anonymous wrote:Why are the usually vocal Trumpkins so quiet all of a sudden?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot find the reference to such a meeting in Dave Martosko's Twitter feed.

6:48 and 6:53 PM.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot find the reference to such a meeting in Dave Martosko's Twitter feed.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot find the reference to such a meeting in Dave Martosko's Twitter feed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Though one would think he would care that his staff secretary can't get a security clearance and is vulnerable to blackmail.

Excellent point. Because if I were a conspiracy theorist I would ask myself whether indeed the White House wanted precisely someone who was subject to "pressure" because of past secrets, and someone who would be exceptionally loyal to the White House knowing their career was getting a second, HUGE chance, when no other employer would have overlooked that background report, --- as the person working very closely with the President, privy to certain important documents and private conversations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we know that WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, WH Communications Director Hope Hicks, Gary Cohn, and WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter were all in a room together concocting a cover story for the Rob Porter scandal? Has that meeting been reported somewhere? If so, could you please provide a link?

Also, if such a meeting really took place, what the h@ll was Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, and chief economic advisor to the President, doing there? He is above all this, and containing White House scandals does not fall into his domain.

PM/PC to Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn,: Pull a Karen Pence here, and order Gary never to meet alone or privately with Hope Hicks. She has shown a propensity to date within the office pool, and tends to prefer powerful, older men. Gary is strangely attractive, powerful, and very wealthy. Checks all the boxes!

Raj Shah was there too?

Anonymous wrote:How do we know that WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, WH Communications Director Hope Hicks, Gary Cohn, and WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter were all in a room together concocting a cover story for the Rob Porter scandal? Has that meeting been reported somewhere? If so, could you please provide a link?

Also, if such a meeting really took place, what the h@ll was Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, and chief economic advisor to the President, doing there? He is above all this, and containing White House scandals does not fall into his domain.

PM/PC to Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn,: Pull a Karen Pence here, and order Gary never to meet alone or privately with Hope Hicks. She has shown a propensity to date within the office pool, and tends to prefer powerful, older men. Gary is strangely attractive, powerful, and very wealthy. Checks all the boxes!

Anonymous wrote:Sanders was in the room with Cohn, Hope, Raj and Porter conciosting a nonsense cover story. She has no shame.

Anonymous wrote:How do we know that WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, WH Communications Director Hope Hicks, Gary Cohn, and WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter were all in a room together concocting a cover story for the Rob Porter scandal? Has that meeting been reported somewhere? If so, could you please provide a link?

Also, if such a meeting really took place, what the h@ll was Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, and chief economic advisor to the President, doing there? He is above all this, and containing White House scandals does not fall into his domain.

PM/PC to Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn,: Pull a Karen Pence here, and order Gary never to meet alone or privately with Hope Hicks. She has shown a propensity to date within the office pool, and tends to prefer powerful, older men. Gary is strangely attractive, powerful, and very wealthy. Checks all the boxes!