'I don't even know how to describe the look on my face,' she said. She said she was hurt by the cash offer, which she turned down. 'After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn't know how to take that,' she said. At issue is the Trump Organization's later reimbursement of Cohen for the payments, and Bragg's office is reportedly looking into whether Trump falsified business records to conceal the payment.ĭuring a 2018 tell-all interview interview with Anderson Cooper, McDougal said she left her first date with Trump 'crying in the backseat of a car' because he offered to pay her after they had sex. Trump denies both the affair and any legal wrongdoing. It was shortly after she gave birth to their son Barron. The alleged affair happened in 2006, long before Trump entered politics and when he was married to Melania. The other central case against Trump involves a $130,000 hush-money payment that Cohen made to Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign.Ĭohen said he made the payment at Trump's direction and it was to ensure Daniels would not go public with her story of a sexual encounter with the married Trump. Pecker stepped down as CEO of the publisher in 2020.Ĭohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that
$187,500, deeming the McDougal deal as a 'prohibited corporate in-kind contribution.' When McDougal approached the Enquirer with the story of her affair, Pecker alerted Cohen before paying McDougal $150,000 for her story and telling her they would run magazine covers and articles on her in exchange for her not talking to any other outlet about the affair.Ĭohen signed an agreement to pay $125,000 to buy the nondisclosure part of the agreement, but Pecker later called off the deal and told Cohen to rip up the agreement. had made an unlawful campaign donation through the payment but declined to prosecute after Pecker's cooperation in the Cohen case. The Federal Election Commission found in 2021 that Pecker and American Media Inc. The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that the grand jury had a broader focus not just on the Stormy Daniels payments but the payments to McDougal as well. She said the relationship continued for about 10 months after that but she broke in off in April 2007 because she felt bad.ĭon't call me a liar: Dino Sajudin, the former Trump doorman who claimed the president had a love child said Thursday he was standing by his story McDougal said Trump first tried to pay her in 2006 after their first sexual tryst at a bungalow at the Beverly Hills hotel. He testified that Trump had directed him to buy silence from Daniels and to work with Pecker on quashing the McDougal story. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges related to the Daniels and McDougal payments. There was no formal conspiracy charge but the state of facts released by prosecutors describes how Trump 'orchestrated a scheme' with others 'to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant's electoral prospects.' Each charge is a low-level felony that carries a maximum of four years in prison for each count. Pecker also testified before the grand jury in the Trump case last week, where he reportedly tied Trump directly to the deal and to a broader scheme to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 election.įormer Trump attorney Michael Cohen has said he arranged for the Enquirer to make the payment and made recordings of a conversation where he spoke with Trump about the payment.Ĭohen also admitted to speaking to the Enquirer about the payout to Sajudin.Īt one point, Trump asked Cohen: 'What do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?' Trump denies ever having the affair.Īll together Tuesday's charges - falsifying business records in the first degree - carry a maximum sentence of more than 100 years in prison under New York law but, even if convicted on all charges, it's unlikely Trump would be sentenced to that much time. Trump's lawyers said that the former president did not know of the payment until after the deal was done. gave Sajudin $30,000 for rights to the story he had to tell but imposed in the contract a $1 million penalty if he gave the story to anyone else. The indictment of former President Trump includes a less-covered indirect payment that kept Playboy model Karen McDougal quiet about her alleged 10-month affair with himĪmerican Media Inc.'s former CEO David Pecker has admitted to doing so to help the Trump campaign.
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