#this concludes the pride month requests until August!

[runawaymun]

If you're still doing pride art requests, may I request Celegorm and trans pride please?

thank you for the request!!! I had so much fun with him!!

Huan said trans rights to bear arms.

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08/31/2021 DAB Transcript

Job 37:1-39:30, 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10, Psalm 44:9-26, Proverbs 22:13

Today is the 31st day of August, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it is great to be here with you today, today and every day. But today cause that’s the day we’re in for starters, we can’t be in another day, currently. I suppose we could be listening to a different day but it wouldn’t be today and today is today and today is the 31st of August. And I hope I'm ready for all of this, this month ending and getting ready for a new month. I was shocked at how quickly August flew by but here we are, last day of August and we will be continuing our journey through the book of Job, we will be concluding the book of Job tomorrow as we begin a new month and so were getting down to it now. So, we are, just by way of reminder, in the middle of Elihu's discourse. So, we've listened to Job converse with three of his friends, friends throughout this book. And then Elihu, he steps forward and starts talking and essentially says I'm younger and so I was letting the wisdom speak first but there’s not a lot of wisdom here and I have plenty to say and so it's my turn and that's what we’re listening to his Elihu offering just Job straight in his reasoning. And so, let's get to it, we’re reading from the New International Version, Job 37, 38 and 39 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so we, we have to talk about Job today because Job got what he wanted. He wanted, he wanted to find God and he did and God has shown up. So, let’s just look back because tomorrow we will be finishing the book of Job, God will continue his discussion tomorrow as we reach our conclusion of this book, but, we remember when we began Job right at the very beginning, Job had a day like no other in which he lost everything, he lost his children to death, his livestock, his shepherds were attacked and killed in pillaged, the livestock was taken, generally everything that Job cared about was taken from him in a day and we watched Job as he's getting the news and when the news is fully delivered, he stands up and tears his robe as an active, deep sorrow and pain-and-suffering, and he falls down and worships God. It's a riveting scene. He has this posture of the Lord gave me everything I have. The Lord has taken it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It's riveting. Job reaches a place where even his own life is like curse God and die. So, that's how bad things have gotten for Job and yet Job doesn't understand why. He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and he does believe that the tragedy the things that have come upon him are at the hand of the Lord. Just thinking, I mean the bitterness that's available in that when everything is destroyed and you don't know why but instead of cursing God and dying right, instead of going into that bitterness Job uses his energy to hold onto his innocence, to hold onto his integrity, and so he will not speak ill of God in any way, will not sin in any way. He believes he is righteous and innocent before God and all of this and what is happening to him is not just or at least in any kind of way that he can understand it to be just. So, it's not too long before some of his friends show up, three of them. They see him from afar and they see just how wasted away he is and they arrive and they sit down with him and they sit with him in silence for a week. This is called Shiva, sitting Shiva, this is sitting with someone in their grief, not there to fix it, not there to give them promised scriptures over and over, just to offer presence, to acknowledge the pain, to be there and it, to simply offer our presence, not our words, and that's what they're doing. They sit with them for a week until he starts talking, that’s what they’re waiting for. And, he starts talking and he discusses how he wishes he had never been born, how on the night he was conceived that that would've been just blacked out. How he would've just died when he was born, how he would not how to face this. And, then he begins to talk about his innocence and he begins to talk about finding God. And, his friends all respond. And, we read through all of that, they all respond. It's all rational, it all makes sense. It's all in defense of God because Job is essentially saying what God is doing to me isn’t just, I don't understand it. I haven't done anything wrong. They spend the bulk of the book trying to convince him that that's not possible, that he has indeed somewhere somehow done something wrong and they eventually begin to go after him because of the things that he is saying, as if his pride is the issue. Actually, Job's friends sound a whole lot like the kind of things that we say to people when we find them in suffering and it ends up to be a full-blown argument because Job gets mad that they keep trying to insinuate that somehow, he isn't innocent and then they get mad because he's insinuating that he is sinless and righteous and what is happening to him, this judgment that’s happening to him, is unjust. That's not a grid that they can fit the equation into which is the point. When bad things happen to good people, it's hard to find the answers. And, this book wrestles with that fact and in part it does a good job of showing us that we, with all of the wisdom that we have in all of our understanding of God, that we might think that we have and all of the things that we say to people, we really don't fully understand what we’re talking about when we’re talking about the most high God. In fact, it's not that we don't kind of don’t fully understand, it’s that we barely have scratched the surface. We are talking about the most high God, Creator of all things far and away beyond our capacity in every respect. So, in the end, what Job wants is God. What he wants is an audience with God. He's prepared his case. He believes that if God gave him answers, he would then have the answers that he's looking for. He doesn't want answers from his friends. He doesn't want human answers. He feels like everything that his friends are telling him he already knows, he’s already analyzed all that, they're not wiser than he is. They can only offer human wisdom, and he needs God. And then the last person Elihu, the younger one steps forward with his opinions which he offers and we've listened to those opinions over the last couple of days and then God shows up today, “Brace yourself like a man. I have some questions of my own. You’ve been asking a lot of questions. I have some questions and you're going to answer them.” I mean come on, that would scare me to death. Even reading it, it's like can you, I mean on the one hand, God, like how do you get your mind around that God has shown up in some sort of tangible, understandable way and is speaking overwhelming, but what He is speaking is very directly aimed at the fact that for all Job's questions, God is about to reveal that Job nor his friends know pretty much anything about anything. And then God begins to ask these giant, God sized questions, which is what will what we been reading today. And will continue until tomorrow. Let's remember that Job had a case prepared, he knew what he was going to say to God, he just didn't know where to find God but he knew what he would say. And then God comes to Job. So, finally Job's gonna get to say what he needed to say and we’ll listen to what that is, as we conclude the book of Job tomorrow.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word every bit of it, all of the stories, all of the people, all of the time the passes, all of the different changes in the world that we can see, as customs and clothing change but people don't. So, as we move toward the conclusion of Job, we invite Your Holy Spirit fully and all of our questions and may we watch Job tomorrow and learn quite a bit. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello dear saints, my name is Mercy. I’ve been listening to DAB for many years. I’m calling for prayer. I have nine children, they’re all grown, 22 grandchildren so far. What I’m calling for prayer for is that we had a crushing blow that rocked our family. I would mostly probably actually describe it as more like a train wreck. My husband of 43 years, who everyone thought was a model Christian became evident that he was a pedophile. He took advantage of some of our little ones which cause severe damage and shattered the face of some. Please pray, he’s in prison now. But please pray for the healing of hearts and souls in my children and my grandchildren. I’m doing well, I’m surrounded by a network of Godly friends and family who carry me but please pray for my children. When you pray, pray for Mercy’s Children. Thanks, DABers, love you.

Hey guys it’s Sparky from Texas. I’m gonna try and get through this these are happy tears. I was listening to Dr. John and Jen's call here on the 26th and it just broke me down in tears hearing the praise reports. I know, I know not everything gets fixed and God doesn't fix everything but it just, it’s mind blowing to me how God is still healing and still moving lives and I just, I’d like to pray a minute. Father we thank You for your grace and we thank You that You that you're not gone, Your not dead Father. You’re reaching into these people's lives, You’re reaching in my family's life. And, Father, You're so real and when I hear these praise reports Father, it’s just, it’s so much to take on just the joy and the grace and Your love. Father, be with those that you don't decide to heal and let them know that that's Your plan Father. Lord, I just thank you so much for Your grace. I thank you for everybody on this. Father, we just appreciate You, we love You and just stay with us, help those who need, help us to show those who need your faith. Father, we thank You so much for Your son, Christ, it’s in that son’s name we pray. Amen. Love you guys, I pray for everyone of you. Praise God for praise reports. Have a great day.

Hello, my Daily Audio Bible brothers and sisters, my DAB family. This is Yolanda. After listening virtually every day, sometimes twice a day and lifting up my DABers prayers since 2012 I am moved to call in for the first time. Today I come to you on behalf of my dear, dear friend Birdie. Birdie is a mother of a sweet toddler. She is 37 weeks pregnant and is quite suddenly suffering from COVID pneumonia with fluid around her heart. Her mother and husband are frantic with worry, and caring for their toddler, well, unable to be with her in hospital while she faces labor and delivery, possibly a C-section without them. DABers, please join me as I fervently left Birdie and her sweet baby up in my prayers asking for complete healing for her and a healthy vaginal delivery for her sweet baby. Lord, please give Birdie peace during this time of intense trial, intense pain and sickness. Lord, please give the doctors and nurses, the knowledge and medicine to bring her to full recovery. In Jesus holy and precious name, I pray. Amen.

Hi DAB family this is God’s Life Speaker. While I was praying with my husband this morning as were struggling with our 21-year-old and he, he is depressed. However, he is seeking help for praise God for that. It dawned on us that there’s been some judgment that we've put on, on him, that is not fair. That's the judgment that we use against him, that will be used on us so, this morning we repented. As parents and children of God, and you know, it's the self-evaluation; we want things and people in our lives to look better, look right, fix themselves, yet, are we examining ourselves? Are we walking in a manner worthy of our calling? Are we imitators of Christ? Are we the peacemakers? Because God sees and God hears, He knows our thoughts, He knows what’s going on. He knows our heart aches too and I feel, as someone who likes to speak God's word out into the atmosphere and change it and bring glory to God, I can get pretty low about what I’m seeing in my kids. And it hurts because we want them to be glorifying God and working towards that perfection that He calls us to. Yet, they are in training, even if they’re 21, they’re still in training and we are the ones that need to set that example so we needed to do some repenting this morning, some encouraging each other and spiritual gifts right. So, I asked that we would do that all. I’m praying for each one of your children and grandchildren and us ourselves in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Hey, everyone I just thought I would ring in and update you on how I'm going. It's Margo here, missionary in Liberia. I have made it back to Australia for, we’re back here for a few weeks for my son’s wedding which is amazing because Australia has some very strict rules around travel. And so, getting back into the country actually was quite a miracle and in fact, even leaving the country again is a miracle and we already have our permit to leave in a few weeks’ time to go back. So, I thank the Lord for His help and His hand has been upon us. And I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I rung in a few weeks or maybe a couple of months ago and I was in a really bad way. And, I have noticed that I’ve really picked up. And I have really felt His comfort and His peace much more in my life. All the things that are out of my control, I’ve been much more able to leave them in His hands. And I’m so, so grateful for His comfort. I’m so grateful for your prayers. It’s…I should have rung in sooner. So, we’re in Australia for a few weeks and then heading back and you know, continue to pray for us. It’s not an easy calling we have, mind you, no one has an easy calling. So, I’m just grateful for this community, grateful for the prayers that we pray all for each other. And, God bless you all. Love you. Bye.

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Murat’s fateful decision

In the aftermath of Waterloo, Murat, having been consigned by Napoleon to a country house in Toulon in the weeks prior to the battle, suddenly found himself rendered a fugitive. A royalist mob murdered Marshal Brune; Marshal Ney was being hunted down; and the Marquis de Rivière placed a bounty on the head of Murat, who had advocated to save the marquis’ life over a decade earlier. 

Realizing that his native land was no longer safe for him, the fugitive King of Naples--and having not abdicated, Murat still very much considered himself a king--planned his escape. His master of horse, the Duke of Roccaromana, and Murat’s nephew Bonnafous, made arrangements for him him to board a boat in the Bay of Toulon. Murat’s clothing and most of his remaining money—some 200,000 francs—were loaded onto the vessel in advance. The boat somehow ended up at the wrong destination. By the time the mistake was realized, a party of royalists hunting for Murat had boarded the vessel, “threatening,” writes Macirone, former aide-de-camp of Murat, “with horrid imprecations, that if they found the king, they would cut him in pieces.” Failing to find their quarry, they forced the vessel to sail off. Murat was now alone.

He wandered for days, deprived of food and shelter, constantly on the lookout for his pursuers. Finally he dared to approach a farmhouse; an elderly woman greeted him at the door, without recognition. He passed himself off as an officer of the Toulon garrison who had lost his way. While enjoying his first fresh meal in days inside, the master of the house returned. This man, a naval officer, did recognize Murat, but, to the king’s relief, swore to protect him from his pursuers and to provide him any possible assistance in making his escape from the country. Murat remained holed up in this house for several days, attended by the old woman, whofaithfully watched over him as he slept. On the 13th of August, a party of royalists descended on the house; Murat barely managed to conceal himself in time to avoid discovery. He was finally forced to conclude that the Allies had abandoned him; his hopes of receiving word from Paris to be taken under their protection were in vain.

The proprietor of the farmhouse had introduced Murat to three former naval officers, Captain Oletta and Lieutenants Donnadieu and Langlade. They pledged themselves to Murat, and, following the sale of some of Murat’s remaining diamonds, procured a small ship. On the night of the 22nd of August, the party set sail for Corsica. A violent storm nearly destroyed the vessel on the 24th. Spying another ship in the distance in the aftermath of the storm, they asked to be taken on board. It turned out to be the post packet which regularly sailed between Toulon and Bastia, and was then on its way back to Corsica. On board the packet, Murat met Mathieu Galvani, who had served in the Neapolitan army. Seeing that Galvani wore the medal of Murat’s Order of the Two Sicilies, Murat warmed to him quickly; Galvani would remain with the king, serving as his personal secretary, until being severely wounded at Murat’s side on the shores of Pizzo.

Arriving at Bastia, Murat made his way to the nearby village of Vescovato. The king and his entourage were warmly received by the mayor of the village, André Colonna-Cecaldi, the father-in-law of Murat’s former aide-de-camp, General Franceschetti. Franceschetti, recently retired from his service in the Neapolitan army and having resettled in Corsica with his family, would likewise remain attached to Murat for the majority of the rest of his days.

Corsica at this time was deeply divided between Bonapartists, Bourbonites, and pro-English factions. Unfortunately for Murat, the commander of the Bastia garrison, Colonel Verrier, was a Bourbon sympathizer, who soon resolved to deliver “Mr. Murat” over to the royalists. He requested Murat to visit him. “It will not appear surprising,” observes Macirone, “that King Joachim should have refused to comply with the summons of this madman.” The angered Verrier responded to this refusal with a proclamation to the people declaring Murat a “disruptor” who, “violating the laws of hospitality, wants to trouble your tranquility and expose you to the horrors of civil war.” He authorized a force of several hundred men to proceed to Vescovato and capture the fugitive, adding that those who “receive the pay of Mr. Murat, who directly or indirectly assist his maneuvers, will be arrested and punished as traitors and rebels.”

Verrier’s incendiary proclamation had the immediate effect of rallying hundreds of Bonapartists from all over Corsica to the defense of Napoleon’s brother-in-law. To avoid bloodshed, Murat decided to depart from Vescovato, and to proceed towards Ajaccio, the birthplace of Napoleon, where he would undoubtedly find more support (and security). He had, by this point, managed to procure enough money to send Franceschetti on ahead to hire boats for his planned expedition to Naples. The numbers of Murat’s followers grew as he traveled through the villages leading to Ajaccio. “From Vescovato to the birthplace of the Emperor,” writes Galvani, “the passage of the king had been a true triumphal march: all the villages were abandoned, entire populations were staggered on the road to see and behold the king, and the cries of viva Gioacchino! were incessant.” It was just the sort of adulation that never failed to turn Murat’s head, or to fill it with dangerous delusions. In Naples, he had never ceased to be intoxicated by the cheering throngs of the notoriously fickle lazzaroni; now he would find in the enthusiasm of the Corsicans all the encouragement he needed to embark on the enterprise which would spell his doom.

During his stay in Bocognano, he acquired some recent issues of the French newspaper Le Moniteur, one of which included a letter from King Ferdinand of Naples expressing his gratitude to Field Marshal Baron Bianchi for vanquishing Murat’s forces in the recent war. Murat, who had always taken the utmost pride in his Neapolitan army, bristled at seeing Ferdinand refer to it contemptuously as “the enemy bands.” “Is it possible,” Murat raged, “that a king can give to his own subjects such a withering characterization! To this beautiful army created by me! What a disgrace! What infamy!” He then proceeded to dictate to Galvani a twelve-page manifesto, which he intended to be read by the Neapolitan people, denouncing Ferdinand for his past atrocities and reminding them of “the numerous advantages that they had received during the few years that he [Murat] had governed them.” The proclamation would be reprinted en masse prior to hisdeparture for Naples.

Murat was in Ajaccio by the time his aide-de-camp, Francis Macirone had arrived in Bastia, carrying with him passports and an offer of asylum for Murat, from Metternich. Macirone learned of Verrier’s attempt to seize Murat, and was also informed that “great alarm prevailed at Naples, where it had been reported that an attack was contemplated by King Joachim, but that every necessary preparation had been made to repel it.” The captain who divulged this information to Macirone planned to send his gun-boats to Ajaccio in order to prevent Murat’s boats from departing. When Macirone informed him of the offer of asylum he bore for Murat from Austria, the captain conceded that, if Murat were to accept them, “he might be authorised to convey him and his suite to their destination” instead. Murat received a letter from Macirone on the 27th of September, imploring him to remain in Ajaccio until Macirone’s arrival.

Macirone reached Ajaccio the next day, as did Ignace Carabelli, who had formerly served Murat. Now, Murat was warned, Carabelli was serving as a spy for the Neapolitan police; Murat did not believe it, and met with Carabelli and Macirone (whom he met with first is disputed; Galvani says the meeting with Carabelli occurred first, while Macirone places Carabelli’s meeting after his own). Carabelli attempted to dissuade Murat from his intended expedition.

“Am I no longer loved by the Neapolitans?” Murat asked. “I know they prefer me to Ferdinand.”

“Yes, sire,” Carabelli replied. “You were loved when you were in Naples; today the Neapolitans say they love Ferdinand: you know them!”

The conversation continued. Failing to change Murat’s mind, and respectfully declining to follow him to Naples, Carabelli took his leave of the king.

According to Galvani, Murat’s private meeting with Macirone lasted around two hours. The primary subject of discussion was the Austrian offer of asylum. Metternich’s offer required the king to “take the name of a private individual. The queen having taken that of Countess of Lipona, the same is suggested to the king.” He “will be free to choose a town of Bohemia, of Moravia, or of High Austria in order to fix his sojourn.” Furthermore, he would be required to give his word to the Austria Emperor that he would not leave the Austrian states without the Emperor’s express consent. Though the Austrian offer of asylum did not explicitly require Murat to abdicate, Murat recognized in it not only a de facto abdication, but a benign form of imprisonment. Macirone’s initial optimism that Murat would accept the offer was short-lived. “I now had recourse to every argument and supplication in my power to induce him to accede to the proposal,” he records, “and I informed him that an English frigate waited at Bastia to convey him to Trieste. He replied, that I was come too late, that the die was cast, that he had waited nearly three months with the utmost patience, and at the constant risk of his life for the decision of the allies. That it appeared evident to him that he had been abandoned by the sovereigns who had so lately courted his alliance, to perish by the revengeful daggers of his enemies, and that he had at length resolved to attempt to regain his kingdom.” Macirone continued to plead with Murat to accept the offer of asylum, rejoin his family, and “await some favourable turn in the affairs of Europe, which might lead to the re-establishment of his fortunes,” but “these arguments were, however, of no avail.” Murat declared his intention of setting sail that very night. He granted Macirone’s request of issuing a formal, written response to the offer of asylum, “in which his real intentions regarding his expedition are disguised.” 

Macirone was then invited to join Murat and several other members of his entourage, including General Franceschetti, for dinner. The subject of Waterloo arose. Murat “much praised the valour and discipline of the English troops,” Macirone says, “but he reprobated the manner in which the French cavalry had been employed and sacrificed. He then proceeded to demonstrate to me the manoeuvres and measures, which he said he should have directed and adopted if he had commanded the cavalry, and which he flattered himself would certainly have ensured a very different result.” Galvani recalls Macirone granting to Murat that he would’ve surely broken the Austrian and Prussian squares, but not the English ones. Amused, Murat repeated that he surely would have broken them. “This is not boasting,” said the king. “Europe knows me. I’ve never been repelled by an enemy square!” 

After dinner, Murat and Macirone met privately once more. “Here I again took an opportunity of resuming my supplications to him to abandon his project,” writes Macirone, “but I found him immoveable.” Macirone succeeded, however, in convincing Murat to take the passport for Trieste, “in the fond hope that he might, during the course of his voyage, determine to avail himself of it, and abandon his hostile enterprize.” Murat then “observed to me, that the letter which he had just addressed to me, contained a deception, which he regarded as unbecoming to his dignity, and that it was his intention to address me another, in which he would inform me of his real intentions, and enter into some explanations concerning the motives of his conduct.” 

“Captivity and death are to me synonymous,” Murat explained in this second letter. “I will not accept, Mr. Macirone, the conditions which you are charged to offer me. I perceive nothing in them, but an absolute abdication, on the mere condition that I shall be permitted to exist, but in eternal captivity, subjected to the arbitrary action of the laws under a despotic government.” He castigated the allies for whom he had “in a very critical moment decided the campaign of 1814,” and who were now pursuing him “with the overwhelming might of their persecutions.” “I have not abdicated,” Murat stressed. “I have a right to recover my crown, if God gives me the force and the means…. By the time you receive this letter, I shall be well advanced towards my destination. I shall either succeed, or terminate my misfortunes with my life. I have faced death a thousand and a thousand times in fighting for my country: --shall I not be permitted to brave it once for myself? I tremble only for the fate of my family.” Following the completion of this letter in Joachim’s hand, copies of it were transcribed by his secretary. Macirone then took his leave of Murat for the final time. 

General Franceschetti likewise writes of having begged Murat to forego his plans to depart for Naples, and to accept the Austrian offer of asylum. “I represented to him a death without glory,” Franceschetti recalls, “awaiting him at the shore, his companions expiring at his feet, immolated for a desperate cause; alternately, I offered him the more flattering picture of his spouse and his children, of their tenderness, of their caresses, and I tried to open his heart to the delicious hope of this perspective.” His efforts proved as fruitless as those of Macirone. “I had the pain of seeing him persist in his design,” Murat’s former aide dolefully records. The king responded that he did not want to be “the voluntary object of triumph for the house of Austria, I refuse the asylum it offers me on such conditions; I will only see the queen again on the throne of Naples.”

The force with which Murat intended to land on the shores of Naples numbered 298 including the king himself, as well as Franceschetti and Galvani; this relatively small party of seamen, soldiers, and officers had been chosen from three times as many volunteers. Murat’s view of his popularity in Naples remained undimmed, and he was confident that the people would eagerly flock to his banners as soon as news spread of his return, just as the French had to Napoleon following his escape from Elba. The king was in high spirits, animated with the same indefatigable energy that always burned brightest on the brink of a desperate battle.

The doomed expedition set sail sometime between midnight and one o’clock in the morning on the 29th of September, 1815. 

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Sources:

-Atteridge, A. Hilliard. Joachim Murat: Marshal of France and King of Naples, 1911

-Colletta, Pietro, General. Histoire des six derniers mois de la vie de Joachim Murat, 1821

-Franceschetti, Dominique-César, General. Mémoires sur les événemens qui ont précédé la mort de Joachim Ier, Roi des Deux-Siciles, 1826

-Galvani, Mathieu. Mémoires sur les événemens qui ont précédé la mort de Joachim-Napoléon, Roi de Deux-Siciles, 1843

-Macirone, Francis. Interesting Facts Relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat, 1817

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NEW YORK | April 11, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she’d had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid’s parent made a $30,000 payment to a less famous individual: a former doorman at one of the real estate mogul’s New York City buildings.

As it did with the ex-Playmate, the Enquirer signed the ex-doorman to a contract that effectively prevented him from going public with a juicy tale that might hurt Trump’s campaign for president.

The payout to the former Playmate, Karen McDougal, stayed a secret until the Wall Street Journal published a story about it days before Election Day. Since then curiosity about that deal has spawned intense media coverage and, this week, helped prompt the FBI to raid the hotel room and offices of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

The story of the ex-doorman, Dino Sajudin, hasn’t been told until now.

The Associated Press confirmed the details of the Enquirer’s payment through a review of a confidential contract and interviews with dozens of current and former employees of the Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc. Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for signing over the rights, “in perpetuity,” to a rumor he’d heard about Trump’s sex life — that the president had fathered an illegitimate child with an employee at Trump World Tower, a skyscraper he owns near the United Nations. The contract subjected Sajudin to a $1 million penalty if he disclosed either the rumor or the terms of the deal to anyone.

Cohen, the longtime Trump attorney, acknowledged to the AP that he had discussed Sajudin’s story with the magazine when the tabloid was working on it. He said he was acting as a Trump spokesman when he did so and denied knowing anything beforehand about the Enquirer payment to the ex-doorman.

The parallel between the ex-Playmate’s and the ex-doorman’s dealings with the Enquirer raises new questions about the roles that the Enquirer and Cohen may have played in protecting Trump’s image during a hard-fought presidential election. Prosecutors are probing whether Cohen broke banking or campaign laws in connection with AMI’s payment to McDougal and a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels that Cohen said he paid out of his own pocket.

Federal investigators have sought communications between Cohen, American Media’s chief executive and the Enquirer’s top editor, the New York Times reported.

Cohen’s lawyer has called the raids “inappropriate and unnecessary.” American Media hasn’t said whether federal authorities have sought information from it, but said this week that it would “comply with any and all requests that do not jeopardize or violate its protected sources or materials pursuant to our First Amendment rights.” The White House didn’t respond to questions seeking comment.

On Wednesday, an Enquirer sister publication, RadarOnline, published details of the payment and the rumor that Sajudin was peddling. The website wrote that the Enquirer spent four weeks reporting the story but ultimately decided it wasn’t true.  The company only released Sajudin from his contract after the 2016 election amid inquiries from the Journal about the payment. The site noted that the AP was among a group of publications that had been investigating the ex-doorman’s tip.

During AP’s reporting, AMI threatened legal action over reporters’ efforts to interview current and former employees and hired the New York law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, which challenged the accuracy of the AP’s reporting.

Asked about the payment last summer, Dylan Howard, the Enquirer’s top editor and an AMI executive, said he made the payment to secure the former Trump doorman’s exclusive cooperation because the tip, if true, would have sold “hundreds of thousands” of magazines. Ultimately, he said the information “lacked any credibility,” so he spiked the story on those merits.

“Unfortunately…Dino Sajudin is one fish that swam away,” Howard told RadarOnline on Wednesday.

But four longtime Enquirer staffers directly familiar with the episode challenged Howard’s version of events. They said they were ordered by top editors to stop pursuing the story before completing potentially promising reporting threads.

They said the publication didn’t pursue standard Enquirer reporting practices, such as exhaustive stake-outs or tabloid tactics designed to prove paternity. In 2008, the Enquirer helped bring down presidential hopeful John Edwards in part by digging through a dumpster and retrieving material to do a DNA test that indicated he had fathered a child with a mistress, according to a former staffer.

The woman at the center of the rumor about Trump denied emphatically to the AP last August that she’d ever had an affair with Trump, saying she had no idea the Enquirer had paid Sajudin and pursued his tip.

The AP has not been able to determine if the rumor is true and is not naming the woman.

“This is all fake,” she said. “I think they lost their money.”

The Enquirer staffers, all with years of experience negotiating source contracts, said the abrupt end to reporting combined with a binding, seven-figure penalty to stop the tipster from talking to anyone led them to conclude that this was a so-called “catch and kill” — a tabloid practice in which a publication pays for a story to never run, either as a favor to the celebrity subject of the tip or as leverage over that person.

One former Enquirer reporter, who was not involved in the Sajudin reporting effort, expressed skepticism that the company would pay for the tip and not publish.

“AMI doesn’t go around cutting checks for $30,000 and then not using the information,” said Jerry George, a reporter and senior editor for nearly three decades at AMI before his layoff in 2013.

The company said that AMI’s publisher, David Pecker, an unabashed Trump supporter, had not coordinated its coverage with Trump associates or taken direction from Trump. It acknowledged discussing the former doorman’s tip with Trump’s representatives, which it described as “standard operating procedure in stories of this nature.”

The Enquirer staffers, like many of the dozens of other current and former AMI employees interviewed by the AP in the past year, spoke on condition of anonymity. All said AMI required them to sign nondisclosure agreements barring them from discussing internal editorial policy and decision-making.

Though sometimes dismissed by mainstream publications, the Enquirer’s history of breaking legitimate scoops about politicians’ personal lives — including its months-long Pulitzer Prize-contending coverage of presidential candidate Edwards’ affair — is a point of pride in its newsroom.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Enquirer published a string of allegations against Trump’s rivals, such as stories claiming Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was a bisexual “secret sex freak” and was kept alive only by a “narcotics cocktail.”

Stories attacking Trump rivals or promoting Trump’s campaign often bypassed the paper’s normal fact-checking process, according to two people familiar with campaign-era copy.

The tabloid made its first-ever endorsement by officially backing Trump for the White House. With just over a week before Election Day, Howard, the top editor, appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars program by phone, telling listeners that the choice at the ballot box was between “the Clinton crime family” or someone who will “break down the borders of the establishment.” Howard said the paper’s coverage was bipartisan, citing negative stories it published about Ben Carson during the Republican presidential primaries.

In a statement last summer, Howard said the company doesn’t take editorial direction “from anyone outside AMI,” and said Trump has never been an Enquirer source. The company has said reader surveys dictate its coverage and that many of its customers are Trump supporters.

The company has said it paid McDougal, the former Playboy Playmate, to be a columnist for an AMI-published fitness magazine, not to stay silent. McDougal has since said that she regrets signing the non-disclosure agreement and is currently suing to get out of it.

Pecker has denied burying negative stories about Trump, but acknowledged to the New Yorker last summer that McDougal’s contract had effectively silenced her.

“Once she’s part of the company, then on the outside she can’t be bashing Trump and American Media,” Pecker said.

In the tabloid world purchasing information is not uncommon, and the Enquirer routinely pays sources. As a general practice, however, sources agree to be paid for their tips only upon publication.

George, the longtime former reporter and editor, said the $1 million penalty in Sajudin’s agreement was larger than anything he had seen in his Enquirer career.

“If your intent is to get a story from the source, there’s no upside to paying upfront,” said George, who sometimes handled catch-and-kill contracts related to other celebrities. Paying upfront was not the Enquirer’s usual practice because it would have been costly and endangered the source’s incentive to cooperate, he said.

After initially calling the Enquirer’s tip line, Sajudin signed a boilerplate contract with the Enquirer, agreeing to be an anonymous source and be paid upon publication. The Enquirer dispatched reporters to pursue the story both in New York and in California. The tabloid also sent a polygraph expert to administer a lie detection test to Sajudin in a hotel near his Pennsylvania home.

Sajudin passed the polygraph, which tested how he learned of the rumor. One week later, Sajudin signed an amended agreement, this one paying him $30,000 immediately and subjecting him to the $1 million penalty if he shopped around his information.

The Enquirer immediately then stopped reporting, said the former staffers.

Cohen, last year, characterized the Enquirer’s payment to Sajudin as wasted money for a baseless story.

For his part, Sajudin confirmed he’d been paid to be the tabloid’s anonymous source but insisted he would sue the Enquirer if his name appeared in print. Pressed for more details about his tip and experience with the paper, Sajudin said he would talk only for in exchange for payment.

“If there’s no money involved with it,” he said, “I’m not getting involved.”

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