“And in fact, settlements like this no matter what you think of them are common, both among famous people–celebrities–and in corporate America,” says Tucker Carlson, who fills a timeslot on Fox previously occupied by Bill O’Reilly, for whom the network paid out millions in hush money and legal settlements for his sexual harassment and who seems to be preparing the ground for disclosure of a settlement he paid, maybe to the “wife” he took to the dinner with Matt Gaetz and his underage date. “The results are usually known as an NDA, a non-disclosure agreement. In this case, you can believe whatever side you wanna believe, but paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America.
So the modern-day Lord Hee Haw, champion of the Everyman, says paying off porn stars you had sex with because you want to keep your chances of winning your presidential campaign is completely normal.