hclasvegas: If you believe trump was afraid he might lose the voters who favored a monogamous Caucasian 77 year old male lunatic,who makes more unforced errors than a blind tennis player, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

The back-to-back revelations of Trump raw-dogging a porn star and a Playboy playmate before and after the Access Hollywood bombshell would have destroyed the Trump campaign in 2016.

Timeline:

July 19, 2016: Trump secures the Republican Party's nomination for president.

August 5, 2016: The National Enquirer secures the rights to Karen McDougal's affair with Trump for $150,000.

October 7, 2016: The Washington Post publishes the Access Hollywood "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." video. For what, the only time in Trump's entire life, he had to apologize.

October 8, 2016: Stormy Daniels says she is willing to go on the record about her affair with Donald Trump. Howard and Pecker inform Cohen about the conversation and put Cohen in touch with Davidson, her representative. Cohen negotiates a deal to pay Daniels $130,000 in exchange for the rights to her story and a non-disclosure agreement.

October 25, 2016: Stormy Daniels says she's close to an agreement to publish her story elsewhere.

October 26, 2016: Cohen opens a bank account for Essential Consultants and transfers $131,000 he obtained by taking out a home equity line of credit into the new account.

October 27, 2016: Cohen wires $130,000 to Davidson, Daniels' attorney.

November 1, 2016: Cohen receives signed copies of the agreement between "Peggy Peterson" and "David Dennison." It is dated Oct. 28.

Anyone who doesn't think Donald Trump was instrumental in the catch and kill of the McDougal and Daniels stories -- and believes they would not have had a major impact on his candidacy -- isn't much of a thinker.