![]() According to Bragg, Trump then paid Cohen a total of $420,000 over the course of 2017, much of which was intended to reimburse Cohen for the payment to Daniels. The women are identified as “Woman 1” and “Woman 2” by Bragg, but the first woman appears to be former Playboy model Karen McDougal, and the second appears to be porn actress Stormy Daniels.Ĭohen, who pleaded guilty to a federal campaign finance crime arising out of this scheme in 2018, paid $130,000 to Daniels shortly before the 2016 election, in order to secure her silence. A separate document laying out the factual basis for Bragg’s allegations against Trump points to a complicated web of arrangements between Trump, his former lawyer Michael Cohen (who is identified as “Lawyer A”), and David Pecker, the CEO of American Media, the company that publishes the National Enquirer.īragg alleges that these three men worked together to identify two women who allegedly had sex with Trump, and to pay them to remain silent. The indictment charges Trump with 34 separate counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony. It is unclear that the felony statute that Trump is accused of violating actually applies to him. It concerns not Trump’s efforts to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States, but his alleged effort to cover up a possible extramarital affair with a porn star.Īnd there’s a very real risk that this indictment will end in an even bigger anticlimax. There is something painfully anticlimactic about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump.
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