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"There was a lot of pressure for me to stay silent, but I just couldn't stay silent," said De Angulo, now 30.
Fame has pressured her to stay silent about all the things she does not wish to stay silent about, lest she give anyone cause to dislike her.
The first, at 2D, is "Stay silent" — KEEP MUM.
Clinton pressured her to stay silent about the assault accusation.
She is cunning enough to know when to stay silent.
I try to stay silent, but it doesn't always work.
This is a new migrant who refuses to stay silent.
Instead, you can stay silent and ask for a lawyer.
And Cohen is not going to stay silent about it.
I don't want to stay silent, that's just not me.
She's entitled to opine if she wishes or stay silent.
Mastro and the brands she partners with have to stay silent.
In the face of injustice, John Legend refuses to stay silent.
When children become weapons of war, we will not stay silent.
"It's not going to happen if we stay silent," McCray says.
Some victims stay silent because they're legally obliged to do so.
Ms. Baranowski said she was mortified and determined to stay silent.
She begged him to stay silent, and he did, until now.
How many women and men will stay silent as I did?
I don't know how long it can simply stay silent, however.
When these fragile environments are threatened, we simply cannot stay silent.
We will not stay silent as the freedoms of others are destroyed.
"I have been frozen out and I can't stay silent," he added.
And white supremacy continues to win the longer that we stay silent.
But in the meantime, the engines will stay silent at Cape Canaveral.
Many industry people knew about it and encouraged me to stay silent.
What pressure was Crews under to stay silent in the immediate aftermath?
But 19-year-old student Rebecca Malstrom wasn't going to stay silent.
"He can rap, sing, dance or even just stay silent," TMZ reports.
Page is expected to stay silent and invoke his Fifth Amendment rights.
I can't just pop some popcorn, watch Annie Hall, and stay silent.
So instead, you stay silent and accept that you've lost the argument.
She's also not one to stay silent when people violate her privacy.
The clear message will be stay silent, you will not be believed.
Somehow, he'd have to keep his helmet on, stay silent all day.
Refusing to stay silent, Ms. Monzur demanded justice from her hospital bed.
Apparently, it's getting harder for many women at Microsoft to stay silent.
In an active shooter situation, it might be best to stay silent.
"And the United States under President Trump will not stay silent either."
AFTER ALL the years of hassle, Jamal Khashoggi knew when to stay silent.
To re-emphasize Tamblyn's point, it's no wonder so many people stay silent.
Jana Kramer is refusing to stay silent on those who critique her parenting.
Given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, many Republicans stay silent.
It's not our job to stay silent so that others can stay comfortable.
It is dangerous for Democrat leadership to stay silent on this reckless language.
And Trump would have to stay silent on the bills or support them.
Republican leaders can no longer stay silent because saying nothing makes them complicit.
I'm under so much pressure from family members and friends to stay silent.
Usually, female frogs of other species stay silent or call only in response.
How long would you stay silent about what you had seen and heard?
Before his travel ban, Liang opted to stay silent about the 709 crackdown.
Women are afraid to report and men often stay silent for their own reasons.
Le Caire has learned to stay silent, and knows better than to glance back.
It was only when Trump came up that she knew she couldn't stay silent.
Eventually, they're hidden beneath a massive rock, barely breathing to stay silent and unseen.
Either way, Sony could have chosen to stay silent so a response is encouraging.
Jennifer Esposito is refusing to stay silent after receiving backlash for her Instagram commentary.
How, in the 20th century, could such things happen, and the world stay silent?
Trump officials are defying orders to stay silent, offering testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
I had to just stay silent and listen to it all the way through.
Never one to stay silent, Tohmé took to Facebook soon after hearing the news.
When we stay silent, we stay on the same path that led us here.
Stay silent and it could be overrun by criminals, helpless to confront them alone.
Make a commitment to stay engaged throughout Trump's presidency by refusing to stay silent.
Did women stay silent for so long that, in some way, it's our fault?
"If you want to protect your family, you can't stay silent," Ms. Wang said.
We ask questions because we refuse to stay silent when our people are suffering.
Sadly, it's easy to see why so many women stay silent for so long.
Put your phone inside, and it will stay silent until you pull it out again.
You can imagine the silent calculation in their heads that tells them to stay silent.
Employment lawyers say that companies could easily free victims of the obligation to stay silent.
She's right: For mind boggling reasons, sometimes people stay silent about this sort of stuff.
But when it came to his 15-year-old transgender son, he couldn't stay silent.
Baum said in a statement that Hardy had previously asked for money to stay silent.
We were America's shunned, discarded and invisible, no longer willing to stay silent and unseen.
Do not think it cannot happen, and do not stay silent or waste your vote.
I know this country is better than that, and I can no longer stay silent.
This careful organization ensures that only certain genes are active, and the rest stay silent.
His supporters, who have come to accept what many of them previously found unconscionable, stay silent.
If you are concerned about your safety or access to finances, you should also stay silent.
As a power user, I can't stay silent on the crappy new Instagram Stories camera anymore.
After all, when the singular purpose is to gnaw at someone's self-esteem, why stay silent?
But he was so incensed by the injustice at his workplace he could not stay silent.
But publishers involved in the launch had been instructed by Facebook to stay silent until Thursday.
When those who back the refugee centre stay silent, "we leave a void," he now realises.
"The leadership, the administration — when they continue to stay silent, it's going to increase," she added.
" He added: "What we are learning now is that to stay silent has a real cost.
He says he's keeping his criticisms to himself for now, but he won't stay silent forever.
During a meeting with your CEO, it's tempting to stay silent for fear of looking stupid.
In other words, you don't have to stay silent in fear of asking it something accidentally.
They will not stay silent as politicians vote to take away their care and their rights.
We can't always tell them to intervene, and we can't always tell them to stay silent.
Now, she's written an essay for Time's Motto about why she won't stay silent any longer.
If nothing happened (he denies an affair), then what does she need to stay silent about?
He believes that to be free but stay silent against injustice is to still be imprisoned.
And we're willing to absorb the consequences, because we feel it's too important to stay silent.
These are the women who are one paycheck away from poverty, and so they stay silent.
"I can no longer stay silent," Jordan wrote in a first-person piece published by ESPN's TheUndefeated.
The worst thing that you can do is stay silent and try fix things on your own.
During moments like these, I find myself having to decide whether to speak up or stay silent.
"I know this country is better than that, and I can no longer stay silent," Jordan added.
Not one to stay mum on anything concerning him, West didn't stay silent on this issue either.
"I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," she wrote.
His silence speaks volumes, but so too does his decision to stay silent in the first place.
Those who lent their profiles didn't have to stay silent while the conversations were going on, however.
"I'm of mindset that if you stay silent in times of oppression, you become oppressor," McCharen remarked.
They can't stay silent without seeming terribly out of touch to an audience with real-world concerns.
Some websites (like Facebook and Twitter) have started addressing revenge porn with policies, while others stay silent.
It is unclear whether the former secretaries plan to stay silent or will issue their own statements.
Ben & Jerry's is not a brand to stay silent on social issues or remain neutral in politics.
Maraj, the boy said, told him to stay silent or he would be taken from his mother.
However, it is clear that we will continue to be mistreated and ignored if we stay silent.
But she has a song, "Truth #2," that talks about how we stay silent about difficult emotions.
First, do not lecture for 24 hours before a Senate audience that is commanded to stay silent.
Of course, not all Muslims agree with this knee-jerk reaction; many simply prefer to stay silent.
I don't think that we should stay silent when it comes to, like he says, political revolutions.
Every time a woman is subjected to this sort of mistreatment, it encourages countless others to stay silent.
For all of the women seeking help for pregnancy bias, there are some who stay silent at work.
Her Twitter account was temporarily suspended last month, but McGowan is refusing to stay silent about sexual misconduct.
James Corden refused to stay silent after one Internet troll recently made a vile comment about his son.
Kendall Jenner won't stay silent about the struggles she faces in her daily life, namely her mental health.
Cohen, and it's fair to say Trump, has a history of paying women to stay silent about sex.
"I urge others who are victims of such attacks to speak up and not stay silent," he added.
When victims sign NDAs with serial predators like Harvey Weinstein, their agreement to stay silent facilitates continued predation.
Comey, again -- as he did in that January dinner -- chooses to stay silent rather than correct the President.
In Conway's case, isn't it likely that over time he concluded that he could stay silent no more?
If that's the case, it's no wonder Trump chose to stay silent on that — at least for now.
Daniels was paid $130,85033 by Cohen weeks before the 2016 presidential election to stay silent about the allegations.
Still, change has been slow — and Buchwald says she "won't stay silent anymore," per her Daily Dot essay.
They may even stay silent if they experience sexual abuse because they don't feel comfortable confiding in them.
When a woman chooses to stay silent, we criticize them for it and give them a hard time.
Other aides stay silent Others with a clear gripe against Trump have spoken out even less than Kelly.
But, as her supporters argue, why should she stay silent — particularly given the strangeness of our political times?
Often, these are the women who have to put food on the table, and so they stay silent.
These are the women who don't have an HR department to report to, and so they stay silent.
You're showing the people who are trying to silence you that you are not going to stay silent!
While a court date is pending, the 57% of Washingtonians who voted for the wage increase won't stay silent.
This archaic thinking is bullying, and demands that we stay silent and let things remain the way they are.
Beyond the social compulsion in the military to stay silent, command handling of reports creates a damning structural problem.
There's no need to stay silent before the Menstruhaters of the world or do the job for indolent Slackhusters.
Even in the current climate of #MeToo, Awkwafina says she understands why some women may choose to stay silent.
People who experience these illnesses would rather stay silent than seek help and be seen as "crazy" social pariahs.
If Congress goes ahead with its plan to transfer valuable federal lands to the states, Americans won't stay silent.
Tens of millions in grants were funneled to patient advocacy groups that often stay silent about rising drug prices.
The payment was made during Trump's campaign for president, and Daniels said she was also threatened to stay silent.
As many detractors claim, Damon and Affleck were in full knowledge of Weinstein's practices, but chose to stay silent.
Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA), the company behind the dam construction, even allegedly attempted to bribe Cáceres to stay silent.
Then, on Friday, Trump threatened Comey to stay silent -- floating the possibility that "tapes" might exist of their conversations.
Or she can simply stay silent on the issue until she's in a position to vote on specific bills.
That's a lesson women can draw from Lemonade: Speak your truth even if society tells you to stay silent.
The National Rifle Association is likely to stay silent because the Second Amendment is rarely celebrated in these cases.
"My client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump," he said on CNN.
It wasn't long ago that the stigma of talking about one's mental health forced many people to stay silent.
But with increasing anguish about Mr. Trump here, it became politically difficult for Mr. Peña Nieto to stay silent.
He said that he "could not stay silent" about Robinson's case and encouraged others to lobby for his freedom.
When we stay silent, we condone behavior that none of us could possibly believe is O.K. (unless you do).
Days before the 2016 presidential election, she was paid $130,000 to stay silent in a deal handled by Cohen.
Erdogan, however, has said Turkey will not stay silent over mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner group supporting Haftar.
Erdogan, however, has said Turkey will not stay silent over mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner group supporting Haftar.
But several former Obama administration officials are publicly calling for President Trump to stay silent about the Iran protests.
To stay silent is to give away my power and the power of the women who will follow me.
So, to avoid that outcome, people (specifically teenagers, who are generally more worried about their public image) stay silent.
She says while he might've thought they'd stay silent, they didn't ... and they're going to face him in court.
While preparing for the meeting, Sofia expressed her desire to stay silent and have her mother speak for her.
Staff members hid under desks and did everything they could to stay silent for fear the shooter would discover them.
I'm not gonna stay silent and not do anything, but I think on the business side, I don't want to.
Maybe, like Lin, they will stay silent on the topic for long enough that everyone decides to just move on.
The competitive pressure to build and market self-driving technology may lead developers to stay silent on remaining development challenges.
Speak out and risk losing their seats in a primary; stay silent and risk losing their party and their consciences.
Many prefer to stay silent, or simply look for a new job elsewhere, than to risk retaliation from their employer.
Unlike Hamid, Hough did not stay silent, shouting "Islam is not the problem" as Trump spoke about radical Islamic extemism.
That's why, right here in Los Angeles, we will not stay silent as our students' futures are placed in jeopardy.
And just like anybody getting pulled over, you have the right to stay silent, the right to call a lawyer.
Lawmakers who choose to stay silent in the face of Maduro's thuggery will not go unnoticed by the Venezuelan community.
Regulating the internet will only overburden everyone else who would seek to comply with the law, or simply stay silent.
It detailed Moonves' attempts to find a job at CBS for an alleged victim so that she would stay silent.
When an editor explains that an upcoming article about a Muslim lesbian photographer is being pulled, Kat doesn't stay silent.
It's time for AT&T and Stephenson to grab that lifeline and stay silent all the way to the bank.
"We suffered because our neighboring Buddhist people were undermined, so we cannot stay silent," said protest leader Tin Htut Zaw.
Now, as the Iranian people again take to the streets and call for freedom, the United States cannot stay silent.
But other women may stay silent because they fear pregnancy-related discrimination or other ramifications to their job, Bergman says.
If those of us who criticized those comments stay silent, we risk complicity in the current bigoted campaign against her.
"The fact is my client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump," he said.
To just ignore and put up with uncomfortable situations, to stay silent when they should be allowed to be heard.
One side thinks Democrats should stay silent on race and focus entirely on progressive economics to avoid alienating white voters.
I struggle on but stay silent, hoping as I have for decades that this won't be the day I die.
But for corporations that espouse certain ideals or causes, it can often be more dangerous to stay silent, he argued.
After the Trump administration announced it would be ending the DACA program, I decided I could no longer stay silent.
These individuals now have an opportunity to come forward -- and perhaps receive more lenient treatment than if they stay silent.
He didn't stay silent, didn't simply accept the status quo, on a medium obsessed with propping up that status quo.
"When the President speaks out against human rights atrocities, or chooses to stay silent, the world pays attention," the letter reads.
Previously, victims as a matter of course were required to stay silent in exchange for any kind of compensation from employers.
Swift maintained that her speaking out would not have been consequential in any major way, so she decided to stay silent.
" She also says that at the time, a friend advised her to stay silent about the incident, saying, "Tell no one.
Yet she refused to stay silent, saying: "A hyena runs after you for so long that eventually you stop getting frightened."
It says that Twitter should stay silent about the order indefinitely—possible forever—but it's also not really a gag order.
McCharen, like us, is interested in seeing how other designers tackle — or stay silent on — polarizing political matters this Fashion Month.
But today, as Trump says his power allows him to do the same to other women, I refuse to stay silent.
What we have here is the President of the United States openly threatening the recently-deposed FBI director to stay silent.
When a message is so knotted with bizarre claims, contradictions and logical fallacies the only sensible response is to stay silent.
" NR: "I don't have a strong need to stay silent for the obvious reason, like that's not the feeling in me.
His brother also added they he and his siblings were unable to stay silent any longer regarding their eldest brother's views.
Sexual harassment advocates have said one way of tackling the issue is simply to call it out and not stay silent.
Ms. Goodman and Ms. Wolov said that with other allegations swirling around the entertainment world, they could no longer stay silent.
"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and stay silent: Wait your turn," Mr. Kasky said.
I don't have room for hate in my heart… I am not going to stay silent and not use my voice.
But during the walkout, we showed them that we will not stay silent and afterwards, they were looking up to us.
But he had eight credible sexual harassment allegations against him, and I had to choose whether to stay silent, or not.
CNN's Stephen Collinson says this "gathering storm of televised allegations" is testing the President's vow to stay silent on the subject.
We come from the bedrooms and the kitchens of the American home, where we were supposed to stay, and stay silent.
"It's my hope that when it comes to ongoing investigations, that we all would stay silent," she said on Capitol Hill.
I believe her because so many victims of abuse stay silent for years and decades, but always carry it with them.
Stone is accused of threatening Credico to stay silent about the matter, leading to the witness tampering charges he is facing.
To take no stand or stay silent in the face of mounting evidence of such of immorality is tantamount to consent.
"The fact is that my client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump," he said.
Public figures who weren't vocal about the problem to begin with get to stay silent when it's one of their friends.
"It is clear that we will continue to be mistreated and ignored if we stay silent," they wrote in the letter.
"If they mess with our community, if they mess with our culture, we will not stay silent," he told the news outlet.
Given the current political climate, we could hardly expect the actors at the 2017 SAG Awards to stay silent on the subject.
"As the old cliche goes, all it needs for evil to triumph is for good people to stay silent," Cunningham told Mashable.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has opened up about her controversial decision to stay silent during the high-stakes presidential election of 2016.
The woman shared the video with Telemundo 44, saying she did so to encourage others facing racist harassment to not stay silent.
The launching of the formal inquiry has brought forth fruitful testimony from government officials who were apparently planning to stay silent otherwise.
Daniels had claimed she had an affair with Trump and was paid $130,000 to stay silent, according to the Wall Street Journal.
While López has been in the Venezuelan government's custody for four years now, the vocal opposition leader is refusing to stay silent.
Even Burset's release, which should be happy, is laced with the knowledge that she's only free because she agreed to stay silent.
Lovato added that she had been trying to be non-political this year, but she couldn't stay silent on this particular topic.
He can rap, sing, dance or even just stay silent ... and we're told show producers are totally clueless which door he'll pick.
Founders who come from difficult backgrounds shoulder so many other burdens — this stacks on another, and it feels safer to stay silent.
They could not simply choose to stay silent unless they were somehow involved criminally and invoked their 5th Amendment right to silence.
She also says that she was offered $15,000 a month to stay silent about her being fired, according to the Washington Post.
Nor do I think that you (or anyone) should feel forced to stay silent when others are being rude, crude, or reactionary.
But their effect is to consolidate the crown prince's grip on the country and to warn any potential opponents to stay silent.
But do the authorities really think that we will shut up and stay silent, or that we will come out and fight?
How could Mr. Ogunlesi, an immigrant from Nigeria who was a clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court, stay silent?
One man, stepping out of his house for a cigarette, quietly praised Mr. Ho. "He represents those who stay silent," he said.
Walmart's move sends a terrible message: that women, even in 2018, should stay silent about the things that really matter to them.
What's clear at this point is that workers are refusing to stay silent and are more than willing to advocate for themselves.
"When the people of Iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship, I did not stay silent," Trump said Tuesday.
Chase would not comment about the performance of Sapphire Reserve, owing to the requirement to stay silent before its coming earnings announcement.
The officer, Mohamed Noor, has refused to talk, invoking the American legal right to stay silent if speaking up might incriminate him.
What we have heard time and time again of people standing up and stepping forward and saying I can no longer stay silent.
The protocol is not to comment on investigations and to stay silent on politically sensitive matters less than 60 days from an election.
"How can I stay silent and I'm seeing Daesh brainwashing my son and teaching him how to become a suicide bomber?" he said.
Green Day wants to make it clear they're not going to stay silent while Donald Trump reverses the progress made by these people.
Women do exist in this dark-sided universe, but they must stay silent unless they are prompting male characters along with perfunctory dialogue.
Trump's decision to stay silent on the matter throughout June comes at a time when record numbers of Americans support same-sex marriage.
Now it's looking more and more likely that the spacecraft will stay silent until it ends operations sometime at the end of January.
We're the land of the free, but they stay silent as Trump maligns the judiciary, national security and intelligence communities, and the press.
She sued Trump on March 6 saying he had not signed a $130,000 agreement for her to stay silent, so it was invalid.
PRESS RELEASE: We will not stay silent on this reckless move by President Trump pulling out of the IMDb treaty with Russia. 1.
"  "You can imagine, it was very hard to sit there during the presidential race and bite your tongue and lip and stay silent.
What Trump should have done is stay silent on the issue and permitted the independent internal affairs process to unfold without undue influence.
"Democratic megadonors are blacklisting me because I refused to stay silent," read online ads asking for $1 to ensure she makes the debates.
Days before the 2016 presidential election, Daniels was paid $130,000 to stay silent in a deal handled by Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen.
At one point a protester climbed on stage and said: "Let's not stay silent anymore, let's be proud," before taking off his mask.
Yet throughout the election, a large portion of the Republican Party decided to stay silent or in many cases to still endorse his candidacy.
The Big Bang Theory star used the red carpet to speak out against the ban, letting the world know she would not stay silent.
Their actions show that aside from a few rare exceptions, Uber's investors are going to stay silent publicly, no matter how egregious the incident.
But the pressure to stay silent is considerable: the fear for DJs and promoters is that speaking out could put their careers in jeopardy.
NBC Universal said Friday that it will release former employees from a legal agreement to stay silent about their experiences working for the company.
The woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, told BuzzFeed News that the process left her with no recourse other than to stay silent.
Another is that the victims stay silent, fearing that their careers will be harmed if they speak out, and that they will be disbelieved.
"To the leaders, sceptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn: Welcome to the revolution" he said.
"Jafa-Bodden faced retaliation and intimidation when she refused to stay silent about witnessing illegal behavior," her attorney, Mark Quigley, said in a statement.
Whether this administration is up to the task of improving the experience becomes harder to guess the longer they stay silent on the process.
I chose to stay silent because it was better than telling parents and teachers and they not doing/unable to do anything about it.
We've blocked every entrance to ICE headquarters in DC because #JewsAgainstICE won't stay silent while immigrants are targeted, rounded up, and put in camps.
Women cannot stay silent for fear it will damage their careers, because that only allows the aggressor to continue his behavior with other women.
But too often, those who say that #MeToo goes too far have called not for such holistic approaches, but for women to stay silent.
Yet for the most part, women stay silent about pain or discomfort during sex, either out of embarrassment or fear of displeasing their partners.
And even as the BJP makes a play to project inclusivity, caste-based violence is roiling India's largest state while party leaders stay silent.
He's accused of manipulating those girls into bringing him more victims, both widening his alleged sex trafficking ring and assuring victims would stay silent.
She is, however, aware of the pressure that many actresses face today to speak up; the opposite of the old pressure to stay silent.
In the Sunday night interview, Daniels also said she was threatened by a unknown man in 2011 to stay silent about the alleged affair.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about Avenatti's comments this morning that his client was physically threatened to stay silent about Trump.
As doctors, we grappled with what some might perceive as a political cause, but after seeing preventable deaths we knew we couldn't stay silent.
Women stay silent, men stay in power, and the few with the courage to speak up are soon drowned out by a chorus of laughter.
Thankfully, conscientious truth-tellers such as Abigail Thompson refuse to stay silent about what is being done at UC Davis in the name of diversity.
Cohen is under federal investigation over his alleged practice of paying women to stay silent about claims they had sexual relations with the married Trump.
With her election victory, Cunningham has defied social norms that dictate women stay in the kitchen, look after children and stay silent about domestic abuse.
Watch CNN Republicans cheer and Dems stay silent as Trump vows to soon begin construction of a "great, great wall" along the border with Mexico.
Spencer's views are not shared by the majority of atheists in America, but if we want to keep it that way, atheists cannot stay silent.
Coming on the heels of all the outrage about Trump in particular, Hollywood couldn't really afford to stay silent without looking ridiculously and obviously hypocritical.
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.
So in order to achieve Republican policy aims, solid Republicans should stand with the President 100 percent, or at least stay silent when in disagreement.
So in order to achieve Republican policy aims, solid Republicans should stand with the president 100 percent, or at least stay silent when in disagreement.
"I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," Wood told the magazine a day after the presidential election.
In China, family and public pressures often compel victims to stay silent, or they are dismissed by the local authorities when they do come forward.
There is an incentive to stay silent, and some art handlers who spoke to Hyperallergic would not go on the record for fear of retaliation.
As the 1980s war on drugs morphed into the early 90s "zero tolerance" approach, however, society exerted even more pressure on survivors to stay silent.
" Sexual assault in 1937 implied two things: First, the victim had somehow provoked such abuse, and second, she must stay silent or become "damaged goods.
Contrary to received wisdom, the absolute worst thing that the United States can do for the Iranian people is to stay silent and do nothing.
Daniels originally sued Trump on March 6, saying he never signed an agreement for her to stay silent about what she called their "intimate" relationship.
During an appearance on "Ellen" last year, she advised NBA star Stephen Curry that he shouldn't stay silent on the golf course with her spouse.
So if a white guy was shot dead during a routine stop w/ a legal gun & a joint in his car, #NRA would stay silent?
It seems unlikely that Trump or his administration can stay silent for long, especially given the president's proclivity for hitting back at critics or accusers.
Gearry recalled when Sergeant and he were out fishing and the dog encountered his first brown bear and instinctually knew to stay silent and still.
Franco says the sexual misconduct allegations are not true, but he's willing to take a bullet and stay silent rather than tarnish the #MeToo movement.
The world may not have Olivia Pope in a white hat to fight for us, but this Scandal actress won't stay silent when she sees injustice.
Former President Barack Obama indicated that he is not going to just fade away or stay silent even though he's no longer in the Oval Office.
This is the most dangerous political position of all, which is why so many Republicans are practically begging the President to stay silent on the issue.
Lightspeed never said anything publicly about the charges against its partner until today, and arguably enabled his future behavior by legally requiring that Lake stay silent.
This new culture of support presents an opportunity to address one of the most common forms of workplace sexism, mansplaining, and not stay silent, Solnit says.
It lets private conversations morph between mediums depending on what users want to show or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent.
When Ilie Nastase, the Romanian Fed Cup captain, made racist comments regarding Williams' child with her fiancé, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Williams did not stay silent.
She revealed she was offered a $85033,000 a month job on the Trump 2020 campaign to stay silent about what she saw in the White House.
The Times published a report in November that detailed Moonves' attempts to find a CBS job for an alleged victim so that she would stay silent.
This has surprised people in both parties familiar with the tortuous Senate confirmation process — and with what they see as the good reasons to stay silent.
But in a free society that allows open discussion and even civil dissent, submission to laws as they stand does not mean we must stay silent.
" — JIMMY FALLON, as James Taylor "According to a juicy report this weekend, Donald Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to stay silent over an alleged affair.
I believe people like me can no longer stay silent — our stories are the only antidote to a picture of addiction that fails to include recovery.
But instead of reassuring him, Parnas says Dowd effectively told him to "be a good boy," stay silent, and take the legal hit to protect Trump.
On this anniversary, let us commit to not stay silent as hundreds of survivors bravely return to Auschwitz, many for the first time since their liberation.
But one specific episode underscores fears that Trump may not be willing to stay silent for long, especially if the virus' spread threatens his political prospects.
Yet this time, Monica did not stay silent and tweeted back: "Nothing funny about #taketheknee." shazamming all of you who retweeted + liked this tweet w/compassion + empathy.
Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine, refused to stay silent about her ouster, which, she told Congress, came after Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, trashed her reputation.
"[NDAs in standard employment contracts] are often very damaging" to employees who think they are legally required to stay silent about harassment they've experienced, Romer-Friedman said.
Jennifer Lawrence, the country's highest paid actress, told Vanity Fair that she used to stay silent on politics, figuring that she needed people to see her films.
" The former Disney Channel star went on to explain she'd "rather annoy people with my honesty and loud opinions than stay silent and be fake as f—.
According to two of the women's accounts, Becky knew of C.K.'s behavior, and instead of attempting to stop it, he pressured the women to stay silent.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid the money to stay silent about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006, which he denies.
I know people have been asking questions, and I stay silent, because there's so much I can't reveal, but I'm glad they know at least a bit.
"Hillary Clinton is wrong to stay silent about her participation in a comedic skit based on an old racial stereotype," the former NAACP president wrote on Afro.
The fact that he could stay silent — aside from one two-sentence Slack message — for almost two whole weeks, about our jobs and livelihoods being at stake?
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has also alleged she was paid hush money to stay silent about an affair she had with Trump in 2006.
Americans on both sides of the political aisle cannot stay silent as we watch the Iranian regime use violence on those seeking to hold their government accountable.
Here's a brief recap: January 43, 2018: The Wall Street Journal reports that Cohen arranged a $130,000 payment to Daniels to stay silent about the alleged affair.
It would be equally unhelpful to stay silent and look the other way, waiting until this presidency is finally over and a successor occupies the White House.
Those of us who have been in family detention can't stay silent knowing that so many more families will have to go through what we went through.
But neither of those principles creates a legal duty for other types of former officials to stay silent about their recollections of their talks with the president.
Instead of taking the stand and testifying, Duckworth has chosen to stay silent and settle the case at taxpayer expense in order to hide from the truth.
Stone is also charged with pressing Credico to stay silent in the face of government investigations by threatening his omnipresent therapy dog Bianca and making other overtures.
But Mr. Trump has stonewalled Congress and inhibited our ability to seek justice by demanding that those closest to the center of the Ukraine scandal stay silent.
" Avenatti had claimed earlier Friday in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo that Daniels was "physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump.
NBA players may be protecting their brand by choosing to stay silent about the league's controversy with China, former All-Star Jamal Mashburn told CNBC on Thursday.
He chose to stay silent when a woman in Medan, in northern Sumatra, was charged with blasphemy for complaining about the volume of the call to prayer.
They stay silent so often out of fear — fear of ending their careers, fear of lawyers, yes, and often fear of public shaming, including through the media.
But Kanders's role in events at the border, in Ferguson, and elsewhere have generated a conflict of values so extreme that Whitney staffers could not stay silent.
In October, she revealed that the film mogul Harvey Weinstein raped her in the '90s, and that she was offered $1 million to stay silent on the matter.
She also claimed she was threatened by a "thug," who approached her and her infant daughter in 2011 and threatened her to stay silent about the alleged affair.
And online forums, like the AsianParentStories subreddit, detail just how crushing it can be for Asian immigrants (or children of immigrants) to stay silent about mental health struggles.
Meanwhile, activists say that NDAs often foster a culture of uncertainty about the costs of speaking out — and can lead women to stay silent if they've been abused.
Often it seems there is almost a presumption that those who get harassed must have done something to invite it, which leads too many victims to stay silent.
She also claimed she was threatened by a "thug," who approached her and her infant daughter in 2011 and threatened her to stay silent about the alleged affair.
Given the fact that the NFL's fan base is 83 percent white, black football players are pressured to stay silent and just literally and figuratively play the game.
But, to echo a sentiment that I'm sure all of us share, the worst thing you can do in the face of something unjust is to stay silent.
So Trump had three choices: He could either endorse Romney, stay silent, or oppose the man he likes to say "choked like a dog" in the 2012 election.
That pressure from special interest groups -- namely, the National Rifle Association -- is at the heart of the experts' disagreement about whether Frieden should speak up or stay silent.
It's important for Camila and Lili to use their platforms to come forward with their stories, so that others shouldn't feel pressured to stay silent out of fear.
It was effectively the Democratic response to comments Mr. Trump has made implying many American Muslims have terrorist sympathies or stay silent when they know ones who do.
Refusing to stay silent about her death, and the gun deaths of so many others, Pendelton's friends decided to wear orange to commemorate her life and raise awareness.
If Trump accepts the offer, Clifford's team will wire the money by Friday and she would no longer have to stay silent on her alleged relationship with Trump.
They need to acknowledge when those around them abuse their positions, and call it out in real time, not just once it becomes a liability to stay silent.
As I've listened to their experiences, I've realized that the disappointing responses women often face when they go public both embolden harassers and encourage victims to stay silent.
But now that I realize what it can do to people, that it can turn 40-, 50-year-old men into walking vegetables, how do you stay silent?
In cases of sexual assault, cheap grace is doubly dangerous: It can allow a guilty party to continue his abuse while victims stay silent in fear of punishment.
In advance of Intel's latest patches, released on Tuesday, the company was notified of more unfixed flaws and asked researchers to once again stay silent, but they've refused.
AirPods have ruined the headphone-sharing game, and I for one refuse to stay silent while decades of adorable eye-gazing, face-bumping, and shoulder-resting memories fade away.
Lauer says in his letter that his silence over the past two years has been a mistake and that he won't stay silent anymore amid accusations about his behavior.
This and other similar initiatives are a great way to deliver the message to those who hope that you will stay silent until it's too late to change anything.
McDougal claims she had a 20183-month affair from 2006 to 2007 with Trump and had filed a lawsuit to be released from a 2016 agreement to stay silent.
The former Vice President's anti-sexual harassment campaign, It's On Us, released a new video Tuesday to show men what happens when they witness bad behavior and stay silent.
Given the fact that the NFL's fan base is 83 percent white, black football players are pressured to stay silent and just play the game, both literally and figuratively.
For every person that reports it, there are so many others who stay silent for a myriad of reasons which is why overarching policies like this are so important.
Trump fired back saying Khan had "no right" to "viciously" criticize him and implied that Khan's wife was forced to stay silent during the speech because she is Muslim.
No one aspires to be a whistleblower, and most employees, either out of fear of reprisal or belief that reporting problems will be futile—both legitimate concerns—stay silent.
If users are worried their personal photos, sensitive status updates, or other content could leak out to the public and embarrass them or damage their reputation, they'll stay silent.
Well, if that was how he wanted it, and if he couldn't say thanks or keep up his end of a little conversation, Jack would just stay silent, too.
Too often, victims of rape and sexual abuse often stay silent for a number of factors: social stigma, fear their case won't be taken seriously, or trauma and shock.
A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address. address.
Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, says he's now representing three additional women who he claims were paid "hush money" to stay silent about having relationships with President Donald Trump.
Cohen, Trump&aposs former personal attorney, is under investigation over his alleged practice of paying women to stay silent about claims they had sexual relations with the married Trump.
"It costs more to come forward than it does to stay silent," said Ms. Froehlich, an independent who registered as a Democrat to vote for Barack Obama in 2008.
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who has declined numerous opportunities to criticize President Donald Trump's policies since leaving his Cabinet post, said Tuesday he may not stay silent forever.
On the day after the aborted strike, multiple, seemingly conflicting accounts emerged and the White House made no effort to reconcile them, choosing to stay silent about the deliberations.
Dozens of lawmakers, including perhaps the most outspoken Brexit supporter, Mark Francois, signed a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, urging that Big Ben not stay silent on Jan. 31.
A friend of mine once told me about what happens on his meditation retreats, where attendees stay silent and engaged in some form of meditation for days on end.
In September, Saniser, a rapper, released "Susamam" ("I Can't Stay Silent") a 15-minute track that rails against a host of Turkish afflictions from bad driving to animal neglect.
And yet, despite what Anita Hill went through almost three decades ago, Christine Blasey Ford opted not to stay silent, in spite of her initial desire to remain anonymous.
In the court filing, Clifford alleges their affair was more than a decade ago, and says Trump's lawyer paid her $130,000 to stay silent just before the 2016 election.
"I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," she wrote in an email to Rolling Stone that she posted to Twitter on Monday.
Now that reproductive rights might be on the chopping block after president-elect Donald Trump takes office, it's great to see these women spreading awareness and refusing to stay silent.
Clifford's alleged encounter with Trump became public earlier this year after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen had paid Clifford to stay silent about the affair.
Their choice to stay silent or their inability to cope does not make them weak, it means that they are human beings with lives, challenges, and their own bottom line.
"I didn't publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful," she said.
"This new policy limits the overused practice of requiring providers to stay silent when the government accesses personal data stored in the cloud," explains Brad Smith, Microsoft's chief legal officer.
Now, it appears that USAG lawyers may have paid off one of the sport's biggest stars, McKayla Maroney, to stay silent about her sexual assault at the hands of Nassar.
" Gabby continued ... "I didn't publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful.
"As gay Americans, we could no longer stay silent about a barbaric ideology that wants us dead and that actively threatens the freedoms of all Americans," the party invite reads.
He tells Broadly he originally loved Minaj because "she would speak about LGBTQ issues," but in recent years he has seen her stay silent about gay marriage and other issues.
"I didn't publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful," she continued.
Children maimed and killed I've seen far too many children maimed, killed and burned to death by Sudan Air Force aerial bombardments and Sudan army artillery shelling to stay silent.
As someone that is on this platform to support other women, talk about accountability and stand up for myself when people attempt to bring me down, I won't stay silent.
"Many just take pills and stay silent about the pain," said Bassel Maarawi, 57, the dentist who goes around seven camps in the border strip held by Turkey-backed rebels.
But Microsoft made a bold move in December, eliminating forced confidential arbitration for employees who make sexual harassment claims, saying it didn't want to pressure those women to stay silent.
What was the concern that Stephanie Clifford said caused her to enter into a $130,000 deal that required her to stay silent about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump?
We teach our girls and daughters to be too nice, to just ignore and put up with uncomfortable situations, to stay silent when they should be allowed to be heard.
Clifford alleges in the lawsuit that Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid her to stay silent about the affair and says he has continued to intimidate her into keeping silent.
His hush-hush behavior, supported by complicit handlers, forced talented actresses to make an impossible choice: Either stay silent about the abuse or risk the end of their professional lives.
"We cannot just stay silent when such a major measure could be taken to the [European Union] EU economy," she said, adding that there are "only losers" in trade wars.
The Enquirer never published a story on the affair, and said it paid the former Playmate to be a columnist for an AMI-published fitness magazine, not to stay silent.
The legislation is in direct response to the dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, who reportedly paid at least eight women to stay silent about their experiences.
It was hard to get my name out there, but luckily I have an awesome following who would not stay silent and helped me get to where I wanted to be.
We're seeing it as the 2020 race heats up, and the traditional voices of the establishment stay silent: The closest thing to a kingmaker for the Democratic field is President Obama.
In her informal survey, some women said that if harassment was "inappropriate, but in the grand scheme of things minor", they might stay silent for fear of ruining the perpetrator's career.
If tariffs start to dig into their profits, they won't stay silent — and Ms. Blackburn, as the local voice of the Trumpist Republican Party, will bear the brunt of their criticism.
The contract gives Mr. Trump the right to seek financial penalties of more than $1 million in arbitration should Ms. Clifford break or threaten to break her agreement to stay silent.
He and his colleague Thalia Wheatley, the director of graduate studies, who was also named in the lawsuit, struggled to stay silent while the details of the case swirled around campus.
Make no mistake, we cannot stay silent; not because we want war, but because we want to prevent it, and because Iran deserves a brighter future of peace, stability and freedom.
Some turned to Twitter to start a conversation around race and addressed the complicity of other white South Africans -- who may bear witness to racist conversations but choose to stay silent.
However, now that the Trump administration is threatening the rule's existence, it's likely that many financial institutions are going to stay silent, indicating that their former support was solely for public display.
"If the parameters are not fair, it's a step toward protectionism and a trade war, and we will not stay silent for the unfair treatment," he told an economic forum in Jakarta.
Constand told Snow that her shame — and fear that no one would believe her — led her to stay silent about the incident for a year before she told her mother what happened.
When abusers and rapists are served death penalties, or in the future, when their names begin to appear on a sex offender registry — the pressure to stay silent is likely to increase.
When women don't come forward or agree to stay silent, they are often taking responsibility for their own livelihood – even if, as Amy insists, it extends the power and reach of silence.
The feedback I received from many male readers was that there are worse things than having to chat with a friendly driver, and it's rude or dehumanizing to demand they stay silent.
Italian crowds don't need an excuse to make noise and the scrapping of any requirement for them to stay silent, or stay still during play, meant a constant hubbub soundtracked the action.
Widows are often overlooked because they do not know their rights, or feel compelled to stay silent about the abuse they face, said Naana Otoo-Oyortey, head of women's rights charity FORWARD.
Conyers' former employee told BuzzFeed that the process of reporting the harassment she faced made her feel as though she had no choice but to accept the settlement offer and stay silent.
"We didn't think that he would stay silent this long and I think it's pretty clear he is scared of my client and perhaps of me," Avenatti said of Trump on MSNBC.
"I know this has been brought up before, but it's too important for me to stay silent," said Johnson, who is chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security. Rep.
But Comella -- like longtime Jeb Bush adviser Sally Bradshaw, who told CNN on Monday that she's left the GOP over Trump's nomination -- said party members can't stay silent amid Trump's inflammatory rhetoric.
"When you're facing an authoritarian regime, the best they can hope for is for people to stay silent," said Avery Ng, a protest leader and chairman of the League of Social Democrats.
Demi Lovato is speaking out against President Trump's controversial comments about the recent deadly white supremacist rally, saying she'd "rather lose fans and stand up for what I believe" than stay silent.
I believe it's better to just stay silent and not get caught up in their issues as the full story is unknown and you could potentially ruin their chances of being successful.
She was one of about 30 women in red robes and paper bonnets who were told by the organization to stay silent with their heads bowed — a posture meant to convey oppression.
After opening arguments, senators will be able to ask questions of both legal teams — but they have to be written down, as the senators must stay silent as jurors during the trial.
"States who stay silent risk abdicating responsibility at a crucial moment and sending a dangerous message that Saudi Arabia can continue to commit egregious abuses without being held to account," Morayef said.
But they also need to be able to trust that their doctors will speak openly and honestly about health and safety risks, and not stay silent out of a fear of prosecution.
And during the interview, she said that the treatment of other Clinton accusers by both Bill and Hillary Clinton led her to stay silent even as others accused him of similar acts.
Had she not, it is very likely that she would have shared the fate of the many other Chinese who have been repressed because their conscience would not let them stay silent.
I've always said that McDougal should be of greater concern than [Stormy] Daniels [who was paid off directly by Cohen before the election to stay silent about her own alleged Trump affair].
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Juncker thinks heeding David Cameron's request to stay silent while Brexit campaigners told "lies" before Britain's 2016 referendum was the biggest mistake he has made as EU chief executive.
In the sit-down, Daniels said a "thug" she believed was sent by Cohen approached her and her infant daughter in 2011 and threatened her to stay silent about the alleged 2006 affair.
When openly gay actor George Takei took to Twitter to express his anger towards President Donald Trump's heavily circulated draft of his executive order on "religious freedom," Charlie Carver could not stay silent.
Let's talk about race at the dinner table, in the office, on our social media feeds, at our evenings out with friends, or anywhere we might normally stay silent on this tough topic.
He couldn't be clearer ... the "goon" who threatened his client in 2011 had to come from Trump's camp, and he's determined to find out who ordered the ultimatum to stay silent, or else.
"We couldn't stay silent anymore; the trust that so many women had put in us would have been gravely wounded," she added in an open letter to Pope Francis, according to the newspaper.
A government lawyer's ability to stay silent could involve both executive privilege, a special confidentiality for the President's conversations with his advisers, and attorney-client privilege, which protects lawyers' conversations with their clients.
State prosecutors have accused him of threatening to release a nude photo — allegedly taken without permission — of a woman he admits to having an affair with if the woman did not stay silent.
Then the traditional family unit is exploited to intensify the act of eliminating that "other," demanding that relatives either denounce their own kin, or at least stay silent about their detention or torture.
Hanson-Young wrote in a post from her Twitter account that she sued Leyonhjelm "for every woman & girl who's been told or made to stay silent in the face of harassment and disrespect".
So even conservative people who might disapprove of their lifestyle or their way of dressing just stay silent or look the other way when it comes to things like laws to protect them.
"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn, welcome to the revolution," Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky told the throngs in Washington.
You don't get to call yourself the party of Lincoln and stay silent when voting rights are abridged, hate crimes are met with silence and dark-skinned citizens are cast as un-American.
Also on Tuesday, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, filed suit in California to release her from a legal agreement requiring her to stay silent.
Some have turned to Twitter to start a conversation around race and are addressing the complicity of other white South Africans -- who may bear witness to racist conversations but choose to stay silent.
Though none of BTS's members are openly LGBTQ, the group has been seen as sympathetic towards the LGBTQ community, especially compared with other K-pop groups who tend to stay silent on such topics.
And it's been a cataclysm for nearly all of the accused men, who, regardless of whether they have apologized publicly, reacted defensively, or have chosen to stay silent, have largely remained out of sight.
This remark comes just days after reports surfaced alleging that executives at the Weinstein Company were privy to multiple allegations against Weinstein, and in some instances, his decision to pay women to stay silent.
Avenatti is most known for representing Daniels, 39, in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump after alleging she was paid hush money to stay silent about an affair she had with Trump in 2006.
Microsoft's decision to stay silent on an incident of this duration and scale — the outage impacted users across Europe and elsewhere — lends further credence to reports that a hacker group may be to blame.
Why it matters: Daniels' allegation that Trump had a sexual affair with her years ago, and that his lawyer Michael Cohen paid her to stay silent about it, has become a major political issue.
"This means male candidates are free to interrupt, while female candidates face a double bind: stay silent and fail to be heard, or speak up and get judged as too aggressive," Dr. Grant explained.
Rouzan, the only eyewitness, had a choice: She could stay silent, forgoing justice for her aunt's killing and following the social expectation for a young woman to leave weighty legal matters to the men.
But even after the weeks of intense pressure, when I finally signed the nondisclosure document, accepting a settlement of £125,000 (about $213,000) and agreeing to stay silent forever, the trauma was not yet over.
They argue that closed-session deliberations are the only opportunity senators have during an impeachment trial, when the Senate's rules compel them to stay silent, to actually discuss a dispute or argue an issue.
Mr. Weinstein has been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting movie stars and employees of his former namesake company over the course of decades and then paying them or coercing them to stay silent.
It wasn't a difficult decision for the FBI to stay silent about the Russia investigation before the 2016 election "because it was far too early" in the investigation, Comey told ABC News last year.
Avenatti told CNN last week that Daniels "was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about Donald Trump," and said his client would provide further details in an unaired "60 Minutes" interview.
"The pressure to stay silent is so enormous, and the sexual harassment that happens in Albany is so institutionalized that it is going to take an enormous effort and enormous change," Hebert told POLITICO.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Senior Czech judges denounced a judicial overhaul in Poland as an attack on the rule of law on Friday, saying they could no longer stay silent over the changes in their neighbor.
It was a rare public accusation for South Korea, where men dominate the upper echelons of a strictly hierarchical society and victims of sexual violence often stay silent for fear of shame and retaliation.
"This Council can no longer stay silent in the face of the killing of thousands of men, women and children and the devastation of their families," Human Rights Watch said in a statement Thursday.
"Too often victims of violence and abuse stay silent, and Donald Trump's remarks today demonstrate one of the reasons why," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement.
In a recent live video interview with TMZ, actress and model Angie Everhart explained that she didn't stay silent after being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, and still, no one seemed to listen or care.
But, given the incredibly inaccurate and misleading attacks on my father, Woody Allen, I feel that I can no longer stay silent as he continues to be condemned for a crime he did not commit.
" Dorfman revealed what was going through her mind at the time: "This is sex, dammit … kiss me, love on me, and if you can't talk without making an utter fool of yourself, then stay silent.
At the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's personal lawyer reportedly arranged a payment of $23,000 to a former porn star, so she'd stay silent about an alleged affair she'd had with Trump.
"She is one of many human rights defenders in La Paz who have refused to stay silent about the destruction of their ancestral land despite violent attacks and threats on their children's lives," she said.
But as long as his mural is on the Bowery wall, my response will not be to stay silent or to succumb to society's drive to treat sexual violence like it's not a deal-breaker.
Last week, word broke that President Trump's lawyer reportedly paid a former porn star $130,000 to stay silent about an affair she allegedly had with Trump in 2006, while he was married to Melania Trump.
Cohen last year implicated Trump in open court in a scheme to pay Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to stay silent about their alleged affairs with Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 campaign.
In the weeks since, Trump officials have come out of the woodwork, in defiance of his and other top officials' orders to stay silent, to offer their own testimony to lawmakers in the impeachment inquiry.
" He added: "If we have knowledge of anything that's basically cheating — drug abuse, what have you — if we choose to stay silent, we are jeopardizing our career in the game as well as significant fines.
" He added that "the truth is humble, the truth is silent" and concluded with the prayer, "May the Lord give us the grace to discern when we should speak and when we should stay silent.
That's when she sued to get out of an agreement that she had struck to be paid $130,203 to stay silent about an affair she alleges to have had with Mr. Trump starting in 2006.
"NDAs are often used as legal tools to isolate survivors," Clark said, pointing out that pressuring survivors to stay silent can keep other survivors who have been abused by the same person from speaking up.
The intensive pursuit of government workers who share classified information has unsettled First Amendment advocates, who say it could have a chilling effect, persuading public employees to stay silent rather than alert journalists to wrongdoing.
"I believe our allies and our trading partners will understand that the president cannot stay silent any longer, he must give this country and West Virginia workers a fighting chance," he said in a statement.
As more and more sexual misconduct claims are made against powerful male figures in the fashion industry, including notable photographers Terry Richardson and Bruce Weber, models and actresses are refusing to stay silent on the matter.
In addition, Stormy Daniels, an adult film actor whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, alleged that Cohen paid her $130,000 soon before the 2016 presidential election to stay silent about having sex with Trump in 2006.
Daniels, flanked by two massive bodyguards, told one and all about the time the president's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her hush money to stay silent about her claim that she and Trump once had sex.
Of course, royals don't always stay silent when it comes to issues in the news: Kate's father-in-law, Prince Charles, is an outspoken advocate for taking action on climate change, and has been for decades.
The movie, which Krasinski directed and starred in alongside his wife Blunt, features a family who has to stay silent in order to not alert the monsters residing in their home, who hunt based on sound.
That matters little, though: until today, many senators will have been able to largely stay silent on the issue, and a vote to support this highly unpopular rule may come back to bite them come midterms.
This is why we literally cannot afford to stay silent when conservatives attempt to paint any Democratic presidential candidate as having "no idea" how the economy works when they express the desire to repeal this law.
"A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address," reads one tweet from Gustin posted last Friday.
Not only did he encourage me to pretend as though nothing bad had happened between us, but he also made it abundantly clear that he would trade on his privilege to encourage me to stay silent.
Residents' decisions to stay silent — perhaps to protect friends or family, or because they are afraid to go to authorities — are why St. Louis officials put together the reward money in an attempt to collect tips.
Well-funded groups can hire as many attorneys and accountants as they need to get by, but most nonprofits choose to stay silent rather than deal with such complicated rules and penalties for failing to comply.
The Trump administration's renewed pursuit of leakers has alarmed First Amendment advocates, who say the investigations can have a chilling effect on government employees who may choose to stay silent rather than alert journalists to wrongdoing.
The overwhelming backlash to the Saturday Night Massacre was a turning point for the Watergate scandal -- particularly the way the public perceived Nixon -- but it also marked the moment when Richardson could no longer stay silent.
We spoke to her about what she wishes she would have done, her views on Ivanka Trump, and why now is not the time for celebrities to stay silent about politics — no matter what the president thinks.
In the U.S., defense lawyers tend to be vocal, but in Japan, it is fairly standard — as in the case of Ghosn — for them to stay silent, especially before trial, because that's considered better for the suspects.
" The 29-year-old went on, saying the whole time she was thinking, "This is sex, dammit ... kiss me, love on me, and if you can't talk without making an utter fool of yourself, then stay silent.
"It's so embedded in our culture to not talk about grief and avoid it at all costs; it's saying you should stay silent about your joy because if it becomes grief you shouldn't share it," she says.
The suit challenges a provision in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that allows courts to force Microsoft and other companies that offer cloud storage to stay silent when they turn over customer data to the government.
"For too long, victims like myself have been forced to stay silent, swallowing our trauma in shame or fear of retaliation," Jennifer Siebel Newsom, founder and CEO of The Representation Project, said in a statement to Refinery29.
"take the time this issue deserves to get this right" Uber is following the same strategy it did during the debate in Seattle: stay silent and let business groups like the Chamber of Commerce lead the opposition.
I am not one to usually rant on Facebook or anywhere else, but with all of the crazy things that have been happening in our world these past couple of weeks it is hard to stay silent.
Los Angeles (CNN)Grammy-winning DJ Zedd says he does not consider himself "a political person," but when President Donald Trump signed an immigration executive order that includes a travel ban, he could no longer stay silent.
She said he continued to threaten her to stay silent until September, a few weeks before The New York Times and The New Yorker published stories about years of sexual misconduct and assault allegations against Mr. Weinstein.
An investigative grand jury, still convened, will look into other sexual assault allegations against Mr. Weinstein as well as possible financial crimes relating to how he paid women to stay silent, people familiar with the proceedings said.
If on top of what we had already endured, my colleagues and I also knew that the faculty members in question held racist and misogynist views, we likely would have been even more determined to stay silent.
At the same time, Republicans' complaints about the process, particularly their not being free to call witnesses, are largely disingenuous; the President has ordered a dozen officials with direct knowledge of the Ukraine matter to stay silent.
Smith's story is one more example of how victims of harassment or assault — especially at the hands of a powerful man — might stay silent for years, until a major turn of events inspires them to break that silence.
In a post entitled "I Can No Longer Stay Silent," Jordan referenced the 1993 gun-violence related death of his own father to underline how the shootings of unarmed black men is a deeply personal issue for him.
"It's so embedded in our culture to not talk about grief and avoid it at all costs; it's saying you should stay silent about your joy because if it becomes grief you shouldn't share it," Dr. Zucker said.
That letter didn't stop SB6 from passing in the state senate, but the combination at least tells Texas that celebrities, athletes, and all of us normals won't stay silent if the state chooses to take away transgender rights.
"If he is using them to prepare the ground and the international community for an attack on Lebanon's civilian ports and airport and its infrastructure - as they did in 2006 - this council should not stay silent," she said.
It's especially strange for a US CEO to stay silent on this at this point in time, given how social media searches by US customs agents have ramped up following President Trump's Executive Order on immigration last month.
Dräger sent Mr. Walker a letter demanding that he and Mr. Momot ask anyone with a copy of their report to destroy it — including the lawyers who hired them — and to stay silent about the instruments' inner workings.
By urging some candidates to speak out or at least stay silent, Republican leaders who gravely fear losing control of the House risked opening the first significant rift between the Trump White House and the Republican-controlled Capitol.
The first was a series of interviews by Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former aide to the President, in which she alleged -- among other things -- that she had been offered money to stay silent after leaving the White House.
These possibilities are real — roughly 10 percent to 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage — and many women prefer to stay silent, rather than run the risk of sharing early, only to have to share painful news later.
Her grieving mother blames her for failing to watch and protect her infant brother, while her father and younger brother, Caleb, stay silent as Thomasin is accused of other crimes, such as the disappearance of a silver cup.
Despite Washington's threats that it would respond to breaches of that arrangement, it has shown no sign of doing so, and the opposition's top negotiator on Thursday accused it of having struck a "malicious deal" to stay silent.
As Mia Isabella tells it, her story is about the concessions you make when you care deeply for someone whose success depends on your suppression and yet, contradictorily, you're too smart to stay silent when you've been cheated.
This changes the cost-benefit calculus for corporate executives: Speak up and embroil yourself in unwelcome controversy, or stay silent and invite the opprobrium of customers, employees, social media, foreign governments, and, for some, their own families and consciences.
"My husband is innocent," said Qu. Six families shared their experiences on trying to deal with a relative taken hostage in Iran, with diplomats often advising them to stay silent so as not to harm the chance of release.
Agg has made a rep for herself as a feminist hero, between her bestselling memoir, "I Hear She's a Real Bitch" and her willingness to tweet her disapproval at chef bro culture while many in the industry stay silent.
This story sticks because it's a story people want to believe — but also because the only people who saw or know enough to expose it as myth would rather stay silent than admit their own small failures or complicity.
For staffers like Timothy Spurrell, MD, an OBGYN and abortion provider in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the contrast between lawmakers' attacks on Planned Parenthood and public support for continued funding has become too stark for him to stay silent.
The organization would have been wise to stay silent, profiting quietly from its billing codes on the sidelines, but this gross miscalculation has provided an opportunity to view its true nature and appreciate the danger of its continued existence.
The best a non-lying robot can do is stay silent, which may not help the victim much, while the lying robot could actually misdirect the murderer, sending him away from his victim and potentially saving a human life.
" Absent that knowledge, Mr. Shapiro suggests now is a good time to "gather information" and "stay silent" for fear of ending up "with more heavy-handed government policy that doesn't actually achieve the end for which it supposedly aims.
Federal prosecutors unveiled a barrage of evidence against the longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone as they tried to show that Stone bullied an associate to stay silent when a House committee investigating Russia's 22002 election interference came calling.
On Monday afternoon, Trump kept up the attacks, claiming that Manigault Newman was bound by a non-disclosure agreement, despite her assertion that she refused a $15,000-a-month contract from Trump's campaign to stay silent after being fired.
I hope that powerful men in Hollywood and other industries follow his lead, because it's hard to imagine that things will improve if men continue to stay silent and look the other way when women are victimized by those in power.
If you feel increasingly ready to engage people in what effectively become digital shouting matches, and find it harder to stay silent or reflect before commenting, chances are the way you're using the internet is affecting your ability to empathize.
She said she was tricked into signing it, that it was intended to illegally influence the election and because it violates public policy against using threats of legal action to get someone to stay silent on issues of public concern.
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Just as he did during Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest in the NFL, President Donald Trump is criticizing soccer star Megan Rapinoe's decision to stay silent during the national anthem as her team heads into the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
But what Nassar laid bare was that the rot extends beyond one predator or even one sport — it's the product of a broken system, one that unwittingly grooms young girls to stay silent and bow to the will of their superiors.
"Coming forward is far more complicated than anyone can imagine unless they are in that position," Robbie replied when asked about the people who have used social media to speak up about allegations, and those who have chosen to stay silent.
But on Thursday, Brazilian stocks fell 8.8 percent in their worst day since 2008 after the O Globo newspaper reported that Brazilian President Michel Temer in March allegedly discussed bribing a witness to stay silent in a massive corruption case.
The lawsuit that Mr. Mulvaney sought to join was filed by Mr. Kupperman, a longtime associate of Mr. Bolton's, asking a court to decide whether Mr. Kupperman should obey the president's dictate to stay silent or a House subpoena to testify.
The suit also says that the Trump camp used "coercive tactics" to pressure her to stay silent; on Friday, Clifford's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said in multiple interviews that there had been intimations of violence, though he declined to give details.
They stay silent, drop out, move on -- for the sake of colleagues whose work they do not wish to mar with scandal or out of self-preservation to avoid having their lives torn wider than the dress he may have ripped.
As Trump pushes his party towards protectionism and Republicans largely stay silent — with a few exceptions like senators Ben Sasse and Jeff Flake — the Koch network is filling a void by pouring millions into a campaign to promote free trade.
But despite this cascade of stories, and the incredible work done by organizations like Shout Your Abortion and We Testify to destigmatize a woman's right to choose, there are still many who stay silent or hesitate to talk about their experiences.
"To stay silent in this election, in which a candidate has unabashedly insulted women and people of color, is to ignore the mission [Swift] has claimed to be promoting, and makes money off of," proclaimed one article in Splinter in 2016.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on Sunday he would not rule out the possibility that payments were made to women other than porn star Stormy Daniels to get them to stay silent about allegations against Trump.
They describe a toxic brew of prestige and ambition that led parents, bent on their child's success in the show ring, to ignore his near daily predations — and persuaded children who were afraid of losing beloved horses to stay silent.
The party, founded only four years ago, will be the first right-wing nationalist party to enter the German parliament since World War II. "It's not enough to stay silent" and hope the AfD goes away on its own, Guttenberg said.
She's made a huge number of claims, including that she was offered money to work on the campaign and stay silent after leaving the White House, and raised the idea that chief of staff John Kelly is actually running the show.
As federal prosecutors in Manhattan continue to investigate whether Mr. Cohen broke the law by paying Ms. Clifford to stay silent about an affair she says she had with Mr. Trump, Mr. Avenatti has never once shut up about the case.
Oracle Executive Vice President Ken Glueck, the tech giant's point man in Washington DC, said Kent Walker, Google's head of global affairs, reached out to "more than half a dozen" parties "to persuade them to stay silent" on the legal dispute.
With an eye on one of the two rotating seats on the UN Security Council, my home country of Canada had added reason to stay silent: upsetting certain influential UN member states countries may cost it votes in the 2020 vote.
What happened: On January 12, 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 ahead of the 2016 presidential election so she would stay silent about their alleged 2006 affair.
Still, the decision is something of a victory for tech companies and customers interested in transparency: Tech companies that store customer data have long been legally told to stay silent in many cases where federal law enforcement request that information.
"Sadly, those making progress get criticized more than the people who stay silent," said the 50 year-old, who headed the France-based Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations think-tank before becoming a minister under Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez.
They require us to stay silent about sexual harassment by fellow staff or volunteers, because of insufficient processes and policies, fear of retaliation, or the expectation that we put the needs of the campaign -- maintaining pleasant relationships with volunteers -- over our own safety.
AMI has been accused of employing a "catch and kill" tactic to silence former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who is suing the publisher to break from a 2016 agreement that requires her to stay silent on an alleged affair with Donald Trump.
Stormy Daniels on April 17, 2018 The president still faces a lawsuit filed by adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, who also wants out of a deal to stay silent about her claims of an affair with Trump.
Often family members didn't expect it or didn't see any warning signs, but Anestis says that's because men typically stay silent about what they're feeling, or if they do seek help, don't share the extent to which they're having suicidal thoughts or feelings.
He is faced, as many characters in The Chilling Adventures are, given a choice: give up the names of the other men who attempted to bomb the Vatican and commute his sentence, or stay silent and continue his sentence in the Spellman house.
He declined to pinpoint the legal standard under which he was refusing to answer, except to dubiously assert some Justice Department policy has long existed in which attorneys general are expected to stay silent about the president's conduct—which is decidedly false.
In response to Thursday's IAAF ruling, Semenya posted cryptic messages on her Twitter account including: "Your attitude is like a price tag, it shows how valuable you are" and "How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged".
Men only appeared in Coven to serve (see: Kyle and Spalding), stay silent (remember those two weird guys who only appeared to march a badly behaved witch to the stake?), or die (Myrtle murdered the one man seen on the Witches' Council).
"Minnesota needs to send a strong message that we won't stay silent and that the punishment will be harsh, including the potential loss of parental custody of these innocent victims," Mary Franson, the state legislator who authored the measure, said in a statement.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who gained national prominence for representing porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to stay silent about an alleged affair with President Trump, says he has credible evidence of a third incident of sexual assault implicating Kavanaugh.
But the sad thing is, this comes as little surprise to me, since in the same workplace, a very close friend and colleague was sexually harassed by another co-worker for years and received either radio silence or threats to stay silent.
"Bill Nelson can either stay silent and be in favor of organized fraud by the Democrat Party, or he can do the right thing and demand the immediate resignation of Florida's Democrat Party Chair," said Jackie Schutz Zeckman, Scott for Florida campaign manager.
Beginning with the largest march of women and their allies the day after Trump was inaugurated, we reached some critical mass in America and around the world of just refusing to stay silent and, together, more and more women are speaking out.
A Texas sheriff's deputy on Monday was charged with "super aggravated sexual assault" of a 4-year-old girl after it was found that the child's mother was threatened with deportation if she didn't stay silent about the abuse, according to NBC News.
The payments made or orchestrated to women during the campaign -- to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump are also sure to be a hot topic at the congressional hearing.
Trump's dredging up Johnson's case and these other actions constitute an unmistakable pattern of gestures to men like Michael Cohen that if they stay silent in criminal probes, the president will erase any possible federal criminal liability at the stroke of his pen.
Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to be freed from a 2016 legal agreement that required her to stay silent about an affair she claims she had with President Trump in 2006, the New York Times reports.
One of the key takeaways from the church sex abuse scandals and the #MeToo movement is that the social and emotional pressure for victims of sexual misconduct to stay silent about their experiences can begin to lift once other victims raise their voices.
She also said she was threatened to stay silent about the affair in 2011 when an unidentified man came up to her in a Las Vegas parking lot after she had agreed to discuss her version of the alleged affair to a magazine.
Hill was sexually assaulted as a teenager, and watching the testimony of Kavanuagh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, she and her campaign decided to invite a group of women together to talk about why so many stay silent after a sexual assault.
Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren — as well as Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth, and other women senators — who have advocated for Trump's impeachment and removal from office all along, and don't plan to stay silent now that he will remain in office.
Cloistered in the Senate chamber for hours a day and commanded to stay silent, she is unable to familiarize herself with the labyrinthine layout of the Capitol or schedule one-on-one meetings to get to know her colleagues or discuss legislation.
"While keeping in mind and respecting the sovereignty of the Polish state, we can not stay silent about the steps that threaten its very source, which is the untouchable values of European civilization, humanism and fundamental rights and freedoms," their statement said.
CNN's Gloria Borger, Sara Sidner, and Scott Glover report that Cohen recorded his conversations with attorney Keith Davidson, who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom received money to stay silent about their alleged encounters with Trump.
The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters.
Why it matters: With just 2 months before the election — and with an estimated 50,000–75,000 Puerto Ricans who may have permanently settled in Florida since the hurricane — they know they can't stay silent on an issue that affects a significant portion of Florida's electorate.
So I stay silent, I blast Lily Allen in my AirPods and stare straight ahead, never veering off visual course, lest they slice away at me even more by a revolting moment of eye contact that, regardless of my expression, they'll take as encouragement.
As several women involved told the Times, there's pressure to stay silent because so many of the investors and magnates holding the Valley's purse strings are men—and upsetting a powerful person could directly affect whether or not your venture or start up gets funding.
Though she was the one to speak these words, it was evident that she spoke not just for herself, but also for the many who chose to — or felt they had to — stay silent: "We're going to have to get it right," Rodriguez said.
The Thor star admitted he would rather win an Oscar than surf the biggest wave in history ("Because then I'd be dead") and opted to stay silent on whether he'd "rather dance naked for Donald Trump or have Donald Trump dance naked for you?"
And many women chose not to report sexual harassment at all—30% said they did nothing because they just wanted to forget what had happened to them, and 39% said that they chose to stay silent because they didn't want to negatively impact their careers.
I think, too, the specific context of Trump lying about former presidents not making calls to the families of fallen soldiers ticked one more box for Pop, an Air Force alum -- and ticked him off to a point he could no longer stay silent.
But the Cohen filing implicates Trump in the hush-money scheme to pay women alleging affairs with Trump so they would stay silent during the campaign, and the Manafort filing suggests the former campaign chair continued to lie about contacts with White House this year.
He had pleaded guilty in August in a Manhattan US attorney's case to two campaign-finance violations tied to payments he made or orchestrated to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
From the millions who joined the Women's March to the survivors who have bravely come forward with their stories of sexual harassment and assault, to the millions participating in the #MeToo movement, it's become clear that women are not going to stay silent anymore.
Yet they did not want to stay silent, because they did not want their congregants — or people watching Alabama from around the country — to think that evangelicals believe it is normal or acceptable for a man in his 30s to molest and sexually harass teenagers.
Were he running, Mr. Costello said in an interview, he would be inundated with questions about Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress known as Stormy Daniels, who has said she had an affair with Mr. Trump and was threatened to stay silent about it.
Linda Greenhouse Here's a possible solution to the most commented-upon mystery growing out of the Supreme Court's argument this week in a case of crucial importance to the future of public employee unions: Why did the normally loquacious Justice Neil M. Gorsuch stay silent?
In August, Cohen pleaded guilty in a Manhattan US attorney's case to two campaign-finance violations tied to hush money payments he made or orchestrated to women during the campaign to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump, which the President has denied.
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney hit back at critics who have accused him of venturing into politics with his comments that a vote to leave the European Union could hurt Britain's economy, saying it would be political for him to stay silent.
"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn, welcome to the revolution," Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky told the throngs in Washington, where the march turned into a thunderous, standing-room-only rally.
Many of them face a trade-off that is much more pernicious than any I ever had to endure: They can protest the government at the risk of getting deported, or they can stay silent in the face of injustice aimed directly at them.
LL: They would have had John Kerry, the OSTP ... They would have had everybody lined up ready to finger-wag and call it protectionism, and here you had the White House just clearly making a conscientious effort to stay silent and let that speak volumes.
But, as Doyle says, she and other white women are new to this work — women of color have been leading the way for a long, long time, and if Doyle's followers stick with her, and figure out when to stay silent, they just might learn something.
Armed with the unofficial national anthem of the #RedForEd movement, "We're not gonna take it," teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, guidance counselors, custodians and other public school educators will no longer stay silent as their students sit in crowded classrooms at broken desks with decades-old textbooks.
The crackdown ended the period of relatively free intellectual ferment that had characterized the 1980s and ushered in a new era defined by an implicit contract between the Chinese Communist Party and the people: stay silent on politics, and the party will deliver economic prosperity in return.
" Trump, who has said little publicly about an adult-film star who says she was paid to stay silent about a one-night stand she had with Trump in 2006, also confirmed for the first time that Cohen had represented him in "this crazy Stormy Daniels deal.
We agree to stay silent not because we don't want our side heard, but because we often need the money to help repair the massive financial damage incurred after unexpectedly losing a job and spending thousands on lawyers in hopes of winning some of it back.
Washington (CNN)In her first extended television news interview since the news of her alleged 2006 affair with Donald Trump emerged, adult film actress Stormy Daniels declined to discuss whether she had evidence of the affair and said that she was threatened to stay silent about it.
But his angry outburst illustrated the risks for Mr. Trump of assuming — as has almost always been the case in the past — that congressional Republicans will feel so loyal to him that they will swallow their reservations about his policies and stay silent, especially on military matters.
Glueck, the tech giant's point man in Washington DC, said in a blog post that Walker, who is also Google head of global affairs, "led a coercion campaign against companies and organizations that were likely to file on Oracle's behalf to persuade them to stay silent."
Mr. Bolton had previously said he would abide by the ruling of a federal judge in a separate lawsuit by his former deputy, Charles M. Kupperman, over whether to appear as requested in the House impeachment inquiry or comply with a White House directive to stay silent.
His failure to do so stoked concern among some Jewish leaders that Mr. Trump, whose presidential campaign drew the support of racist and anti-Semitic groups including the Ku Klux Klan, was at best willing to stay silent about such actions and at worst quietly condoning them.
Naturally, Trump has been unable to stay silent about these media reports, and has responded by trying to do as much damage to Ryan and the Republican leadership as possible, to punish them for disloyalty even though this newfound spectacle probably makes him even less likely to win.
Read more: The floodgates are opening as Trump officials publicly defy his orders and more whistleblowers come out of the shadowsIn the weeks since, Trump officials have come out of the woodwork — defying his and other top officials' orders to stay silent — to offer testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
In August, he pleaded guilty in a Manhattan US attorney's case to two campaign-finance violations tied to payments he made or orchestrated to women during the campaign -- adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
"This is a VERY SERIOUS matter, as to why we had everyone sign an NDA agreement," the staffers added in the email, according to Politico, which added that recipients were urged to delete any photos they took on set and to stay silent if asked for comment from reporters.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Playboy model who said she had an affair with President Donald Trump filed suit in California on Tuesday seeking release from a legal agreement requiring her to stay silent, becoming the second woman this month to contest arrangements not to disclose alleged extramarital relationships with Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Trump defended himself on Monday against prosecutors' accusation that he directed illegal payments ahead of the 2016 election to two women to stay silent about alleged extramarital affairs with him, insisting that the payments were "a simple private transaction" — not election-related spending subject to campaign-finance laws.
Though we'd presume the firm won't lose anyone's financial support over this apparent flub, given the outsize returns it has produced over the years, the entire situation is strange to say the least, and we'd guess that Sequoia's limited partners — even if they stay silent — can't be pleased about it.
But the charges may not be the last against him, according to the NYT: An investigative grand jury, still convened, will look into other sexual assault allegations against Mr. Weinstein as well as possible financial crimes relating to how he paid women to stay silent, people familiar with the proceedings said.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's personal lawyer sent a "cease and desist" letter to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, Fox News reported on Monday, after she spoke in a "60 Minutes" television interview about her alleged affair with Trump and the threat she said she received to stay silent.
Though the adult star, 38, did not clarify if she signed a nondisclosure agreement about her past with Trump, the mother of one tried her best to avoid the host's questions about her 2011 In Touch interview in which she had described multiple sexual encounters, allegedly before signing the agreement to stay silent.
McDougal is asking the court to declare the agreement null and void, saying she was tricked into signing it, that it was intended to illegally influence the 2016 election and because it violates public policy against using threats of legal action to get someone to stay silent on issues of public concern.
Campaign finance, Trump Tower Moscow Cohen pleaded guilty in August to two campaign finance violations tied to payments he had made or orchestrated to women during the campaign to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump, five counts of tax fraud and one count of making false statements to a bank.
During the election, there was hope that all the stories of sexual assault or harassment would at least force members of both parties to consider the gravity of the issue and its shocking prevalence; there was a momentary sense of women rising up to demand better and to refuse to stay silent.
As a result of my unique journey, I've learned a lot, including one big lesson: Mothering and sex work are two of the hardest jobs that a woman can do — and the ways both mothers and sex workers are compelled to stay silent about our realities makes these difficult jobs that much harder.
If Boris Badenov the Russian cybercriminal knows that you live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, then Boris can send you an email or make a phone call to you pretending to be your neighbor up the street at 1325 Mockingbird Lane — and that he&aposd seen you do something illegal and wants money to stay silent.
In recent months, Cohen's name has mainly been in the news in relation to his role in signing a settlement agreement with Stormy Daniels on behalf of the company he set up to pay her $130,000 in exchange for her to stay silent about her alleged relationship more than a decade ago with Trump.
The former Speaker pleaded guilty to a May 85033 indictment that accused him of illegally structuring bank withdrawals and lying to the FBI in an effort to pay off someone known publicly as "Individual A," who claimed that Hastert had abused him and later offered him a sum of $3.5 million to stay silent.
On "New Day" last week, Avenatti alleged that Daniels was "physically threatened" to stay silent about her alleged relationship with Trump, but he would not answer if it was someone close to the President who threatened her, and later told CNN he wouldn't answer a question about whether he or Daniels filed a police report.
And then Ms. Swinton suggests she herself stay silent while Ms. Cho help out: I realise, as far as I am concerned, this possibly means saying nothing: so far I have attempted to correct the notion that I accepted an offer to play an Asian.. (!!) the most significant and damaging misunderstanding out there, it seems.
This much is clear: If you stay silent, don't ask too many questions and mind your own business, you should be OK. It's the birthplace of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, so perhaps it's no surprise that the 3,700 people of this town in the mountains of the northern state of Sinaloa have kept their lips tight.
So far today, Trump has sent six early morning tweets in which he, among other things, threatened Comey to stay silent, floated the idea he might be taping conversations at the White House (Nixon, again!), argued that his staff can't possibly be expected to tell the truth all the time and suggested canceling the daily press briefing.
And now, as we get closer and closer to election day, I'm trying to mobilize a million Americans to head to the polls this November and hold every Republican that has pushed for these policies or has chosen to stay silent as these attacks increased accountable for the attempts to strip us from our health care.
This ruling could greatly impact all of the lesser-known individuals across industries, normally private figures, who have to make a difficult decision: stay silent, or speak up against sexual misconduct and risk attacks on their character that they may not be able to vindicate in defamation actions because of the higher burden they must meet.
He has opted instead to leave it to his aides to field questions about a continuing investigation into his campaign's contact with Russia, allegations by a pornographic actress that his lawyer paid her to stay silent about an affair, a move to expel 60 Russian diplomats and his administration's support for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"So many victims within the evangelical world stay silent because they feel, if they step forward, they'll damage this man's ministry, and God won't be able to accomplish the things he's doing through this man," said Boz Tchividjian, a former sex crimes prosecutor who leads GRACE, an organization that works with victims of abuse in Christian institutions.
The measure would require two things: sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in the territory, and an annual review of Hong Kong's special trade status with the U.S. Mr. Trump promised in October to stay silent on the unrest in Hong Kong, but the bill offers leverage in securing a trade deal with China.
But operating in a formal capacity as a partisan functionary would most likely have required Mr. Romney to stay silent about his disagreements with Mr. Trump, lest he put Republican candidates in the position of having to pick sides between the two men — the sitting president and the best-known Republican senator — on a routine basis.
With the adoption of the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, which will require all cultivation sites to register for a permit on the state and municipal level by 2018, the hope is that transparency could soon make it so that women aren't forced to stay silent and growers would be held accountable for their workers and crops.
The lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels said Thursday that two women have approached him with claims they were paid to stay silent about affairs with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
Daniels, an adult film actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Trump attorney Michael Cohen through a private LLC weeks before the 2016 election, and because Trump failed to sign the "hush agreement" regarding an alleged affair, Daniels' lawyers said in a lawsuit that the agreement to stay silent about her alleged encounter with the business magnate is invalid.
Harrison hopes her book will be able to show:What grooming looks likeWhy kids stay silent and are afraid to speak outWhat a child may be feelingHow you talk to your child about what's going onThe court processHarrison endured it all, and after she provided testimony her abuser was convicted in 2008 of illicit sexual conduct and sent to prison for a 10-year sentence.
The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters - the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided.
The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters, the notion that we should say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavioral is ahistoric, and I believe profoundly misguided.
"The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters — the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided," Flake said.
"The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters — the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided," Flake said on the Senate floor today.
If he continues to be cut out of visits of foreign leaders when they come to meet with the president, if he continues to stay silent in the face of major crises or major issues, if he continues to not have a senior leadership just beneath him in the flowchart of the State Department, that's going to be another troubling sign that the State Department is being sapped of its role and influence.
And as a matter and duty of conscience, the notion that one should stay silent — and as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters — the notion that we should say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided.
If I have been critical, it is because I believe it is my obligation to do so, and as a matter and duty of conscience, the notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters, the notion that we should say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided.
Adult-film star Stormy Daniels filed a new lawsuit on Wednesday claiming her former lawyer cooperated with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, while still representing her in a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2016 to stay silent about an alleged 85033 affair she had with Trump.
As official Washington is understandably consumed by the launch of an impeachment inquiry, the transcript of President TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report MORE urging President Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, and upcoming testimony by the Intelligence Community (IC) whistleblower who started this series of events, I worry about what is getting lost in the conversation: we are failing the IC whistleblower, we are setting up future IC whistleblowers to stay silent, and our inaction is dangerous for our country.
Earlier this month, Corker said that Trump's threats could "start World War III," and Flake echoed that sentiment in his speech on Tuesday: If I have been critical, it is because I believe it is my obligation to do so, and as a matter and duty of conscience, the notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters, the notion that we should say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided.

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