When word made it to the Trump Organization in 2016 that an adult film star was claiming she had an affair with Donald Trump, the then-presidential candidate wasn’t exactly pressed.
Trump actually thought it would boost his favorability in the polls, Michael Cohen writes in his book Disloyal: A Memoir.
Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said Trump was actually more worried about wife Melania Trump‘s potential reaction than a public scandal. Stormy Daniels had claimed that she slept with Trump in 2006, just months after son Barron Trump (now 14) was born.
As the story started to make the rounds, Cohen and Trump came to an agreement with Daniels’ rep: pay her $130,000 to make it go away.
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