With apologies to the former president, who never did/would likely never do anything remotely like this......

(Commentary:)

....(As a hypothetical comparison...) Substitute the name '(Barack) Obama' into the following real-news story excerpts, below. (I.e., instead of 'Trump'.)

Rhetorical: What would U.S. Republicans be doing if President Obama somehow allegedly did anything like the following..?? 

...With accused philanderer (etc.) Trump in office -- they are (essentially) silent and do NOTHING:

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3/7/18 story excerpt, source is linked below:

"President Trump’s lawyer secretly obtained a temporary restraining order last week to prevent a pornographic film star from speaking out about her alleged affair with Mr. Trump, according to legal documents and interviews....

 ....The details of the order emerged on Wednesday after the White House’s spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that Mr. Trump’s lawyer had won an arbitration proceeding against Ms. Clifford, who goes by the name of Stormy Daniels.

 Ms. Sanders’s statement put the White House in the middle of a story that Mr. Trump and his lawyer had been trying to keep quiet for well over a year. The turn of events created the spectacle of a sitting president using legal maneuvers to avoid further scrutiny of salacious accusations of an affair and a payoff involving the porn star....."

-- Source article link. (No copyright claimed or intended, No affiliation.)

Another 3/7/18 news article excerpt:

"President Donald Trump's lawyer is trying to silence adult-film star Stormy Daniels, obtaining a secret restraining order in a private arbitration proceeding and warning that she will face penalties if she publicly discusses a relationship with the president, NBC News has learned.....

"...Reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon, Clifford's current attorney, Michael Avenatti, said Cohen, through his own attorney, Lawrence Rosen, has made further attempts to enforce the order and caution Clifford that she is subject to damages if she talks about Trump.

"Earlier today, Mr. Cohen through his attorney, Mr. Rosen, further threatened my client in an effort to prevent her from telling the truth about what really happened," Avenatti said. "We do not take kindly to these threats, nor we will be intimidated.""

-- Source article link. (No copyright claimed or intended, No affiliation.)

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More evidence then-candidate @realDonaldTrump & Michael Cohen conspired for Cohen to make a $130k in-kind contribution to silence Stormy Daniels. This violates federal election law. Penalty is up to 5 years in prison.

Last week @RepKathleenRice & I asked @FBI to investigate. https://t.co/XbRop31iAD

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 7, 2018

The attorney representing porn star Stormy Daniels, who is suing President Trump, says the White House's suggestion that the President knew nothing about a payment made to keep her quiet is "patently absurd" https://t.co/yXqYZcyzSZ pic.twitter.com/PBnrh1eHOY

— CNN (@CNN) March 8, 2018

Lawyer: Stormy Daniels is now free to talk about her extramarital affair with Trump https://t.co/a8eWTMT9y8 pic.twitter.com/xZEiIGFkUN

— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2018