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New Report on Hush Payments Could Be Bad News for Trump

'WSJ' says he was directly involved at 'nearly every step' in arranging payments to women

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal is out with an investigative report on President Trump asserting that he played a direct role in arranging hush-money payments to women alleging affairs with him, despite two years of denials. Trump "was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements,"...

Cohen: Here's the Racist Stuff Trump Told Me

Trump's former "fixer" dishes to Vanity Fair

(Newser) - After the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings, Michael Cohen tweeted about the need to "tone down rhetoric" and leveled an accusation against President Trump: that his former boss had made racist remarks when they worked together. "I should have been a bigger person, and I should have left," he...

Michael Cohen Returns to Democratic Party

He 'wants to distance himself' from administration's values

(Newser) - Michael Cohen has returned to the Democratic Party after a short but extremely eventful absence. A defense attorney for President Trump's former personal lawyer confirmed Thursday that Cohen has changed his New York state registration from Republican to Democratic because he wants "to distance himself" from the values...

Stormy Daniels Regrets 'Body-Shaming' Trump

She feels bad about graphic description in memoir

(Newser) - Stormy Daniels thinks she might have gone a little too far in new memoir Full Disclosure when she including a graphic description of President Trump's private parts . The porn actress, who likened Trump's genitals to "the mushroom character in Mario Kart " during a two-page description of...

Report: Eric Trump Was Told to Try to Silence Stormy Daniels

'Wall Street Journal': Trump wanted son involved in getting restraining order against her

(Newser) - In mid-February, Stormy Daniels' manager announced her client believed that despite her non-disclosure agreement she was now free to tell her story about her alleged affair with Donald Trump—and she did so at the end of March in a 60 Minutes interview . The Wall Street Journal is now out...

Lawyer Has News About Stormy Daniels' Deal

Charles Harder claims it's no longer valid

(Newser) - President Donald Trump does not believe porn actress Stormy Daniels' hush-money deal, which his former personal lawyer said was done to influence the 2016 presidential election, is valid and will not carry out threats to sue her for breaking the agreement by discussing details of their alleged affair, Trump's...

Report: Enquirer Had 20 Years of Buried Trump Stories

President tried to buy them all, says the 'New York Times'

(Newser) - Last week, the AP reported that the National Enquirer kept unpublished stories about Donald Trump locked away in safe . Now the New York Times adds a coda: Trump tried to buy everything in that safe, stories going back about 20 years. The newspaper reports that Trump discussed the strategy with...

Trump Slams Carl Bernstein Over CNN 'Lie'

The famed journalist fires back, stands by his story about Trump Tower meeting

(Newser) - President Trump's general lambasting of the media got more specific Wednesday night when he called out journalist Carl Bernstein. The president declared that Bernstein, "a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over...

Dershowitz: Trump Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Mueller

President should be worried about state prosecutors in New York, he says

(Newser) - Michael Cohen's guilty plea . Paul Manafort's conviction . The granting of immunity to longtime Trump allies. Last week provided one big headline after another in regard to the legal trouble swirling around President Trump, and Harvard legal scholar Alan Dershowitz sees a clear takeaway: Trump's biggest legal worry...

Michael Cohen Makes 1st Tweet Since Pleading Guilty

He's thanking people for the birthday wishes—and the cash donations

(Newser) - Michael Cohen is tweeting thanks to people who've sent him birthday wishes, and also those who've contributed to his legal defense fund. President Trump's former personal lawyer and "fixer" tweeted on Sunday: "I want to personally thank all those who #DM me on my birthday...

Another Longtime Trump Ally Is Granted Immunity

Allen Weisselberg is chief financial officer of the Trump Organization

(Newser) - First Michael Cohen, then David Pecker , and now Allen Weisselberg. Another longtime ally of President Trump has been granted immunity by prosecutors in exchange for testimony. The 70-year-old Weisselberg is no mere acquaintance: He has served for decades as chief financial officer and executive VP of the Trump Organization, reports...

Report: Enquirer Stashed Trump Stories in a Safe

They were moved before the inauguration, sources say

(Newser) - The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement tell the AP . The detail came amid reports that federal prosecutors...

Report: Cohen Subpoenaed in Trump Foundation Case

He's also suspected of violating NY tax law

(Newser) - New York's attorney general is looking to open a criminal investigation into whether Michael Cohen violated state tax law, a person familiar with the matter tells the AP . Attorney General Barbara Underwood has requested a criminal referral from the state tax department to investigate and potentially file charges against...

Trump: If I'm Impeached, the Market Would Crash

And 'everybody would be very poor'

(Newser) - President Trump sat down with Fox & Friends amid his tumultuous week , and the interview that aired Thursday morning is making headlines on a number of fronts:
  • The money: The cash that Michael Cohen paid to women so they remained quiet about alleged affairs was not a violation of campaign
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Cohen Wasn't the Only One Handling Hush Money

Trump execs could be in hot water

(Newser) - President Trump is highly unlikely to be indicted under current Justice Department policy—but he's not the only one facing potential repercussions from Michael Cohen's guilty plea to charges violating campaign finance laws. Court documents show that when Cohen was reimbursed by the Trump Organization for hush money...

Trump Offers Dueling Tweets on Cohen, Manafort

And throws Obama in for good measure

(Newser) - President Trump briefly mentioned Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort's situations while in West Virginia on Tuesday night; on Wednesday morning he elaborated on his thoughts on the men's legal developments on Twitter. CNN reports it spoke with White House advisers who say Trump and his backers will be...

Cohen's Lawyer Rips Into Trump, Repeatedly

Lanny Davis makes the morning talk show rounds

(Newser) - The days of Michael Cohen being willing to "take a bullet for" the president are seemingly long gone. He testified on Tuesday that he made hush-money payments to two women "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office." In the wake of his...

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Trump: 'Where Is the Collusion?'

Cohen's lawyer says he has information for Mueller

(Newser) - If President Trump was rattled by the conviction of former campaign manager Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of former lawyer Michael Cohen , he didn't show it at a rally in West Virginia hours later. He told the crowd in Charleston on Tuesday night that he felt "badly"...

Cohen Guilty Pleas Involve Payoffs to Two Women

Charges against the president's former attorney include campaign finance violations

(Newser) - Ex-Trump attorney Cohen has entered guilty pleas to charges that include campaign finance violations involving payoffs to two women, per the AP . The hush money payments were part of a coordinated effort to influence the 2016 presidential election, the president's former "fixer" said in a federal court in...

Reports: Michael Cohen Strikes a Plea Deal

The big question is whether that means he's cooperating with Robert Mueller

(Newser) - Big news that surely will not please President Trump: His former "fixer," Michael Cohen, has struck a plea deal with prosecutors, reports ABC News and the New York Times . Other outlets don't go quite as far, saying that he's close to a deal, but all should...

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