The Links Between Trump and 3 Hush-Money Deals
The first criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump has resurfaced three potential sex scandals that he faced ahead of the 2016 presidential election and buried with the help of allies. Manhattan prosecutors charged him in relation to the one involving the porn star Stormy Daniels; he pleaded not guilty and has said the three stories are untrue.
whose
publisher
was
The
National
Enquirer
coordinated
with
Michael
Cohen
said he acted at
the direction of
whose parent
company paid
David
Pecker
paid
$130,000 to
$150,000 to
$30,000 to
Stormy
Daniels
Karen
McDougal
Dino
Sajudin
to conceal a sexual
encounter she
said she had with
to cover up an
affair she said
she had with
to conceal an apparently
false story about an
out-of-wedlock child of
who said he worked
on a “catch and kill”
effort for
Donald
Trump
By The New York Times
According to prosecutors, the charges — 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — stem from Mr. Trump’s efforts to conceal a hush-money payment to Ms. Daniels, who said she had a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006.
Two other hush-money deals were made as part of a “catch and kill” effort by The National Enquirer. While those episodes are not formally part of the charges Mr. Trump is facing, prosecutors will argue that they were part of the effort to bury negative news about Mr. Trump to influence the election.
Those deals involve Karen McDougal, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump in 2006-7, and Dino Sajudin, a former doorman who in 2015 tried to sell an apparently false tip about Mr. Trump fathering a child out of wedlock.
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