A person who the Daily Beast describes only as a “celebrity athlete” who played at the now-infamous 2006 American Century Championship in Stateline, Nevada, tells the site that then-reality game show host boasted to him that he had just had sex with the “porn star” who was present and encouraged the other guys to try to eff her too. “It was clear to me and everyone who heard him that he was talking about Stormy,” the athlete said, adding Trump was “crass,” “gross,” and “stupid.”
“He’d say all these things like, ‘You’ve gotta bang a porn star, it’s incredible,’ and, ‘It added 20 yards to my drive today,’” said the athlete, who cited fear of harassment or retaliation as the reason in requiring anonymity. He also says he received anonymous phone calls asking about what if anything he remembers from that weekend in the run-up to the 2016 election, but was never approached by state or federal prosecutors. The athlete also says he never shared this story much privately.
Now if you’re thinking “celebrity athlete” might be easy to isolate just by taking a look at the tournament’s roster… well, take a look at the tournament’s roster. Charles Barkley, John Elway, Ray Allen, LaDainian Tomlinson, Joe Sakic, Ben Roethlisberger, Gene Upshaw, Bret Saberhagen, Drew Brees… That’s not even close to a comprehensive list of participants who could fit the bill.
That said, we’re just going to assume it was Aaron Rodgers. We like Aaron Rodgers for this role of secret anti-Trump informant. Kidding aside with that, who else do we know of who would actually fear any retaliation? QAaron’s fanbase and Trump’s have a lot of overlap and he almost certainly has an eye on a future in right wing media (and maybe politics too), because the mainstream sports media sure as shit isn’t going to hire him. It makes sense that he would rat on Trump anonymously.