The White House denies Trump had affairs with the women.
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Both Daniels and McDougal alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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The two alleged to have had affairs with the president.
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Both had affairs, his and her friends and relatives say.
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The vast majority of people believe Trump has had affairs.
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The White House has denied Trump had affairs with the women.
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She has had affairs with over 100 married men in total.
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She says she has had affairs with over 100 in total.
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Mr. Ross disputed those accounts, but admitted to having had affairs.
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He had affairs, and got divorced, and remarried, and divorced again.
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Both alleged they had affairs with the now-President years earlier.
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We know people, all of us, who have contemplated affairs, had affairs.
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Bobby most likely had affairs – but Ethel was his one true love.
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The Black Sabbath frontman reportedly also had affairs with six other women.
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One person definitely thinks Philip has had affairs, and lots of them.
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Both women have said they had affairs with Trump that began in 2006.
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The White House has repeatedly denied that Trump had affairs with the women.
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Before Hart, presidents had affairs but the news media mostly left them alone.
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Meanwhile, women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump are speaking out.
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A parade of women emerged to say they had affairs with Tiger Woods.
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He blatantly had affairs, often bringing his mistresses on the road with him.
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Both women have said they had affairs with Trump, which he has denied.
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The White House has repeatedly denied that Trump had affairs both McDougal and Daniels.
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Those violations involved payoffs to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with multiple women, according to published reports.
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She says he also had affairs with multiple women, including a former baby mama.
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Several women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct or having had affairs with them.
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The two women with whom McCarthy had affairs left the company several years ago.
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According to multiple biographies, Garland's father had affairs with men while he was married.
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The women alleged that they had affairs with the president, which Trump has denied.
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The Associated Press reported that Avenatti confirmed the women claim they had affairs with Trump.
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She had affairs with Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Howard Hughes and Marlon Brando.
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Several women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct or that he had affairs with them.
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The fact that Rock Hudson and Cary Grant had affairs with men is now common knowledge.
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Peng Xiaobo, a divorce lawyer in Chongqing, reckons 60-70% of his clients have had affairs.
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The fact that he and a number of the women also had affairs seemed almost secondary.
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He paid off two women who alleged they had affairs with him in the mid-2000s.
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Clinton to the shaming of some of the women who say they had affairs with Mr. Clinton.
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Vance's office is investigating payments allegedly made to silence two women who allege they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen has already admitted to paying hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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Cochran testified in court their marriage was allegedly falling apart and she had affairs with other men, including Regan.
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Jaime Lannister has been estranged from his sister Cersei since discovering that she had had affairs with other men.
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" Clooney said that Weinstein had told him that he had affairs with "some actresses who were friends of mine.
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He's not being faithful to his wife now, so it's not crazy to think that he previously had affairs.
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Ms. Blakely also said that after the two split, Mr. Drummond had affairs with other people at the company.
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The agents seized material related to Cohen's work negotiating nondisclosure agreements for women who allegedly had affairs with Trump.
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Both women claimed to have had affairs with Trump, who has denied the allegations, more than a decade ago.
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I mean have you ever read what Hillary Clinton did to the women that Bill Clinton had affairs with?
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Mr. Duterte has repeatedly accused the church of hypocrisy, suggesting that many of its priests had affairs with women.
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The campaign finance crimes related to hush-money payments paid two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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" Clooney also said that Weinstein had told him that he had affairs with "some actresses who were friends of mine.
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Welles had affairs with many women (including Judy Garland) and had left her around the time that Khan met Hayworth.
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To gain some insight, we talked to six women who've had affairs and asked them what drove them to cheat.
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He told the court that he made payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump years ago.
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Wood said Kennedy had affairs with other coworkers and prospective employees and became abusive in the workplace after they separated.
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For that she places the blame on the boss, who later admitted on air that he'd had affairs with underlings.
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When Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal began saying publicly that they'd had affairs with President Trump, Melania stayed mostly quiet.
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During the campaign, Trump directed Cohen to pay hush money to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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That scheme involved hush payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The latter charges stemmed from payments during the campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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John McCain to his payments to women who claimed they had affairs with him -- have failed to bring him down.
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Cohen admitted that he made payments to AMI, which in turn paid women who claim they had affairs with Trump.
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Jakobson then allegedly had affairs with Bess Myerson, a former Miss America, and Marie Squerciati before marrying Joan Jacobson in 1983.
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The informant was said to have met King in 1960, and claimed that King had affairs with multiple women, including Baez.
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The Enquirer published blurred images of five women with whom it said Cruz has had affairs but did not name them.
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He admitted to orchestrating hush-money payments, shortly before the election, to two women who said they'd had affairs with Trump.
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Among other documents, the FBI seized records concerning payments to women who have said they had affairs with Trump, including Daniels.
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Not even Trump now disputes that Cohen handled the payoffs of two women who were alleging they had affairs with Trump.
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Both Daniels and McDougal allege they had affairs with Trump and that they were paid to be quiet about those encounters.
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Did his business arrange payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump, which may violate campaign finance rules?
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CNN's poll shows two-thirds of Americans believe the women who say they've had affairs with him, not White House denials.
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The FBI also seized recordings Cohen made with the lawyers of two women who said they had affairs with the president.
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Bill Cosby's admission that he had affairs and gave women drugs so they'd have sex with him is admissible, a judge ruled.
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The development is the latest example of Cohen negotiating nondisclosure agreements and payments to women who allegedly had affairs with his clients.
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He admitted facilitating hush-money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
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Before her 1962 death at 36 of a barbiturate overdose, Monroe was rumored to have had affairs with both RFK and JFK.
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He also has a son and a daughter born to two other women with whom he had affairs before coming to power.
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According to the New York Times, they sought evidence related to payments made to women Trump allegedly had affairs with in 2006.
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Cohen's campaign finance law violations stem from payments the lawyer arranged during the campaign to women who allegedly had affairs with Trump.
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Several women have come forward to claim that they had affairs with Donald Trump shortly after he married Melania Trump in 2005.
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On Friday, Trump redirected his ire toward Clinton, accusing her of smearing the women Bill Clinton had affairs with in the 1990s.
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The campaign finance violations stemmed from hush-money payments made to two women who say they had affairs with Trump years ago.
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In the letter Singer claimed McKee was an admitted liar, he called her not credible and unchaste, and said she had affairs.
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She was a mother, and her husband had affairs with women who knew that he was a married man and a father.
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The President's spokespeople have denied that he had affairs with McDougal and Daniels, and they have denied the claims of sexual harassment.
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Cohen has implicated the president in hush payments made to women during the 2016 presidential campaign alleging they had affairs with Trump.
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Usually, when Dr. Fleming sees clients who've had affairs, the infidelity stems from feeling that their needs weren't being met in their relationship.
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Melania Trump brushes off allegations that her husband, Donald Trump, has had affairs with women ... saying it's just gossip orchestrated by the media.
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Chief among them was the Italian model and actress Anita Pallenberg, who reportedly had affairs with all three of the lead Rolling Stones.
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They are also seeking information about any payments allegedly made to hush up women who say they had affairs with Trump years ago.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last year to bank fraud, tax fraud and making payments to silence women alleging that they had affairs with Trump.
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Those included a campaign finance violation related to payments that Mr. Cohen made to women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said Mr. Trump, above, directed payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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A couple wishing to marry had to obtain the consent of their danwei , or work unit, which invariably denounced people who had affairs.
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The district attorney's office is investigating payments made ahead of the 2016 presidential election to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last August to helping arrange hush-money payments to two women claiming they'd had affairs with Trump during the campaign.
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You know she's got a dark past – she's done some coke, she's had affairs, she's been a supermodel and she's got a rich dad.
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That includes Mr. Cohen's role in helping to arrange payments during the campaign to women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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This included making payments during the 2016 campaign to buy the silence of two women who appear to have had affairs with Mr Trump.
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Cohen "made or caused" two payments to silence women who alleged that they had affairs with the presidential candidate years ago, according to prosecutors.
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He also implicated the president in schemes to pay off women who alleged they had affairs with the president more than a decade earlier.
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Cohen alleged that Trump directed him to make payments before the 2016 presidential election to two women with whom he had allegedly had affairs.
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" Romantically handsome, Cannon had affairs and one brief marriage, all the while tormented, he reportedly said, by "the inability to fall out of love.
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The DA's office is seeking the documents as part of an investigation into payments made to two women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs.
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Multiple reports say that the raid sought, in part, records relating to payments made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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The district attorney's office is investigating payments made ahead of the 2016 presidential election to women who have claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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The district attorney's office is investigating payments made ahead of the 85033 presidential election to women who have claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen made or helped orchestrate payments that were designed to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump years before his 2016 bid.
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Pecker provided information regarding Trump's knowledge on payments made to women alleging to have had affairs with the president, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Those crimes included campaign finance violations stemming from payments he made during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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In particular, Cohen detailed Trump's alleged involvement in a scheme to pay off women who alleged they had affairs with him before the 22019 election.
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Friday's filings revealed that Trump personally directed former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to make payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen said Trump told him to arrange hush money for two women who said they had affairs with Trump - and reimbursed him with campaign cash.
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She is one of at least two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump but who were kept silent through legal agreements.
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The New York District Attorney is investigating hush-money payments made to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump before he was president.
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They trace to his business dealings before taking office, such as possibly directing "hush money" to women who have claimed they had affairs with him.
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But Trump quickly pivoted back onto the attack, raising Bill Clinton's sex scandals and Hillary Clinton's role in discrediting women who had affairs with her husband.
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He also had affairs with various film stars like Pam Grier and Margot Kidder, and one with a drag queen he said looked like Josephine Baker.
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According to his now-imprisoned former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump OK'd and orchestrated payments to silence women who said they had affairs with him.
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During her husband's first presidential run, Mrs Clinton was allegedly involved in trashing the reputations of women who had claimed to have had affairs with him.
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Legal bills are mounting for Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, and Summer Zervos, women who say they had affairs with or were sexually harassed by Donald Trump.
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In Cohen's plea, he indicated he broke campaign finance law at Trump's direction when he paid two women who alleged they had affairs with the president.
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Cohen told lawmakers last Wednesday that Trump engaged directly in a scheme to silence women during the 85033 campaign who alleged they had affairs with him.
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They also questioned her about hush payments during the 2016 campaign to two women, including porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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Legal experts have said that the payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump could become part of a campaign finance case.
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During his presidential campaign he bribed two women who have said he had affairs with them; his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, went to prison for this.
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He also admitted he provided the hush money used by attorney Michael Cohen to suppress the allegations of two women that they had affairs with Trump.
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The Justice Department is separately investigating payments that were made during the campaign to women who said they had affairs with Trump to bar them from speaking.
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The National Enquirer, a tabloid known for its gossip and unflattering celebrity photos, published blurred images of five women with whom it said Cruz has had affairs.
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"I was a piece of shit," Rock said of himself at a different show, before launching into detail about the three women with whom he had affairs.
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He implicated the president in the campaign finance charges, saying Trump directed him to make hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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The campaign finance violations stemmed from payments seeking to buy the silence of two women claiming they had affairs with the president more than a decade ago.
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The week ended with Mr. Cruz denying a National Enquirer report that he had had affairs with five different women, and blaming Mr. Trump for the story.
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The lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, had said that as the election neared, Mr. Trump directed payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In a separate case brought by those prosecutors, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to arranging hush money payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Most famously, he helped arrange hush money payments to two women — including the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels — who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Federal agents seized documents that dated back years, some of which are related to payments to two women who have said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The subpoena is part of a grand jury investigation into payments made ahead of the 85033 presidential election to women who claim they had affairs with Trump.
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On Tuesday, Cohen implicated Trump in a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election by paying off two women who allege they had affairs with the president.
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The family's spring break trip came amid allegations that Donald had affairs with two women, Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, while married to Melania in 2006.
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I looked in all the classic wrong places for that something: I had affairs, I doubled down on the acquisitions, I even bought a little red sports car.
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Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels are embroiled in legal battles stemming from allegations that they had affairs with Trump years before before he made a White House run.
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Cohen, meanwhile, is awaiting a three-year prison sentence for financial crimes and charges related to hush money payments to women alleging to have had affairs with Trump.
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In the interview, he called her an "enabler" and said she had attacked the women who said that Mr. Clinton had had affairs with or sexually harassed them.
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Prosecutors say Cohen did so at the direction of Trump, who has denied he directed Cohen to break the law or that he had affairs with the women.
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His presidency, of course, has been plagued by revelations that his fixer arranged for significant hush money payments to two women with whom Mr. Trump allegedly had affairs.
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He admitted joining forces with the nation's best-known supermarket tabloid to buy the silence of at least two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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President Donald Trump has admitted he provided the hush money used by attorney Michael Cohen to suppress the allegations of two women that they had affairs with Trump.
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Vance's office has indicated the investigation relates to alleged hush-money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with the president, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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Cohen pleaded guilty in August 20183 to various crimes, including two counts of campaign finance violations for facilitating payments to silence women who allegedly had affairs with Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal won the national reporting prize for uncovering Trump's secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him.
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Let's make a list of all of the legislators who have had affairs with subordinates, sexually harassed people, or otherwise engaged in sexual misconduct but are still in office.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony charges, including two counts of violating campaign finance law by arranging the payments involving two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are still investigating Cohen's payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump before the election, which authorities say amount to campaign finance violations.
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Yes, Bill Clinton had affairs; but there's a world of difference between consensual sex, however inappropriate, and abuse of power to force those less powerful to accept your urges.
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Cohen also said Trump directed him to pay off two women who said they had affairs with Trump, payments that prosecutors say were in violation of campaign finance laws.
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Mr. Cohen this month began a prison sentence stemming from his guilty plea in a hush-money scheme to silence women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Specifically, Trump was said to have overseen the silencing of two women who claimed they had affairs with him, and whose stories might have damaged his bid for office.
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In his first plea, he made the startling revelation that Mr. Trump directed him to arrange illegal payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Meanwhile, the president is dealing with personal controversy, as two women — one an adult-film star and one a former Playboy model — have said they had affairs with him.
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It appears to focus on allegations of bank fraud and campaign-finance violations related to efforts to pay off women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The case centered on hush-money payments that Mr. Cohen helped arrange during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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They also expect Hicks to shed light on alleged hush payments during the campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Trump, including porn star Stormy Daniels.
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Two of the charges are campaign finance offenses involving his payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer for its coverage of President Trump and payments he made during the 2016 US presidential campaign to women with whom he had affairs.
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Chief Executive David Pecker is close to Donald Trump and he used those methods to bury the evidence from women who claimed to have had affairs with the U.S. president.
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The charges included arranging hush money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, and lying to Congress over a proposed Trump real estate project in Moscow.
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And the only thing worse than that now is devolving back to 1998 and now spending a year investigating payments to people whether or not they had affairs or not.
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Last week, prosecutors alleged that in the months leading up to the 2016 election, Trump directed Cohen to make illegal payments to two women claiming they had affairs with Trump.
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Vance is investigating, at the very least, how the Trump Organization accounted for hush money payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump years ago.
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The payments, made shortly before the 2016 presidential election, were meant to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels's and former Playmate Karen McDougal's allegations that they had affairs with Trump.
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Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into Michael Cohen's use of a private company in Delaware to get money to women who alleged they had affairs with two of his clients.
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His testimony largely revolved around Trump's reported efforts during the campaign to make payments to two women with whom he allegedly had affairs as well as Trump's dealings with Russia.
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At one point, he was asked about conversations he'd had with the President about payments made to several women who claimed they'd had affairs with Trump years before the election.
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Two of those eight counts dealt with campaign finance violations tied to payments made to two women -- Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal -- who alleged that they had affairs with Trump.
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They included arranging hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, tax evasion, making a false statement to a bank and lying to Congress.
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Cohen's crimes, specifically his involvement in payments made in 2016 to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump, were intended "to influence the election from the shadows," prosecutors said.
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And the President's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is also doing time, partly for his role in making pre-election hush payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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He implicated Trump in the campaign finance violations, saying the New York real estate mogul directed him to make hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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On Tuesday, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony charges, including two counts of violating campaign finance law by arranging the payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight felony charges, including two counts of violating campaign finance law by arranging the payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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During that testimony, Cohen implicated Trump in a scheme to pay off women who claimed they had affairs with him before the 2016 election and detailed other nefarious activity by Trump.
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Cohen allegedly coordinated "hush money" payments to Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult-film star Stormy Daniels, both of whom allege they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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The lesson was clear: We are not going to remove presidents for lying about who they had affairs with, nor even convict politicians on campaign finance violations for these personal payments.
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Stories suggesting that conservative politicians have had affairs do not come under the heading of Things We Thought We'd Never See, so we will let that one go and move on.
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Cohen has pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, two of which are related to his payment of hush money to women with whom Trump had affairs, including porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen is serving his sentence after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations related to hush money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump prior to taking office.
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Michael Cohen's stunning guilty plea on Tuesday directly linked Mr. Trump to paying off women he allegedly had affairs with in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
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For months now, prosecutors have been looking into Mr. Cohen's wide-ranging business deals, including two hush-money payments he made to women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball when asked about reactions to Trump's infamous "Access Hollywood" tape and reported payments made to two women who say they had affairs with the president.
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Among Republicans, 52% think it is true that Trump had affairs before becoming President, but fewer believe the allegations around the payment to the actress (235%) and the National Enquirer (226%).
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Cohen told the House Oversight Committee in February that Trump directed him to lie about the president's knowledge of hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen testified in August that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments to silence two women before the 2016 election who said they had affairs with Trump.
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The president has also been involved in nondisclosure agreements with women who claim to have had affairs with him, including former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen has been under investigation for payments he arranged to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, as well as up to $20 million in tax fraud and bank fraud.
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After all, this is a guy whose fixer/lawyer—Cohen—had orchestrated at least two payouts to women who said they had affairs with him after his youngest son was born.
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In her early 20s, she had moved to L.A. to become an actress, starred in several B movies and has since claimed to have had affairs with Warren Beatty and Roman Polanski.
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Investigators are looking into allegations that Cohen bought the silence of at least two women who say they had affairs with the president with the payments made shortly before the 2016 election.
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The prosecutors also briefed Mr. Barr on their long-running investigation into hush payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, the people said.
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Michael Cohen, the president's erstwhile personal lawyer, struck a plea-bargain deal with federal prosecutors and admitted that he had paid off two women claiming to have had affairs with Mr Trump.
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Sanders was also given the opportunity to deny that Trump had affairs with the two women for whom payments were arranged, adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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He also pleaded guilty to other charges, including campaign finance violations, stemming from payments he says he made at Trump's direction to silence women who claim to have had affairs with him.
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He implicated Trump in the campaign finance charges, saying the president directed him to make hush-money payments ahead of the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Trump, during his Fox News interview, also tried to distance himself from the two campaign finance charges related to payments Cohen arranged for two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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" Cohen also said the payments, apparently intended to suppress the women's accusations that they had affairs with the then-candidate about a decade earlier, were made "to help him and the campaign.
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He testified that Trump had directed him to pay hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, and the payments were made to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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He pleaded guilty last year to arranging a hush money scheme in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, involving two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Cohen testified in August that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments to silence two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 presidential election.
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Last month, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and said Trump directed him to pay off women who alleged they had affairs with the president in order to influence the election.
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In pleading guilty, Cohen admitted to participation in a scheme to pay hush money payments to two women -- Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels -- with whom Trump is alleged to have had affairs.
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Cohen pleaded guilty on eight criminal counts last month and implicated Trump personally in campaign finance violations related to the paying of two women who have alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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They said in court filings that Trump directed his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to make payments in violation of campaign finance laws to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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Investigators are also probing payouts made by Cohen to women who alleged they had affairs with Donald Trump in exchange for their silence, which could have run afoul of campaign finance laws.
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He directly implicated Trump in his crimes when he admitted his involvement in hush-money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump years before he ran for president.
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That award went to the staff of the Wall Street Journal for its reporting on the hush money payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign who allegedly had affairs with Trump.
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Last week, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included arranging hush payments during the 2016 presidential election to silence women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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Back in August, Cohen also implicated Trump in a scheme to pay off women who claimed to have had affairs with him in order to prevent the details from impacting the presidential campaign.
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Cohen last month pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that included campaign finance violations for payments made ahead of the election to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December to three years in prison for crimes that included arranging payments during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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In court, Michael Cohen implicated the president in payments to two women who had alleged that they had affairs with him, so in those counts he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws.
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Mr. Cohen, facing the possibility of his wife being indicted along with him, pleaded guilty to a campaign finance scheme involving payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Investigators are also examining whether Mr. Cohen violated campaign finance or other laws by helping to arrange financial deals to secure the silence of women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Payments to people who claim to have had affairs with public figures are not currently tax deductible under the IRS Code even if your primary residences are Trump Tower and the White House.
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Federal prosecutors also signaled on Friday, without naming Trump, that the president had directed his onetime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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In response, Trump's supporters have sought to move the discussion back to Clinton, partly by invoking the women who have had affairs with the former first lady's husband or accused him of rape.
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Cohen previously confessed that he had directed payments ahead of the 2016 election to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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American Media CEO David Pecker — whom prosecutors said has information about President Donald Trump's campaign's efforts to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Trump — has reportedly been granted immunity by federal prosecutors.
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Cosby admitted in the deposition that he had affairs with young models and actresses Damaging testimony from that lawsuit was released last summer, prompting Castor's successors to reopen the case and ultimately charge Cosby.
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In the coming weeks, expect them to pressurise Mr Trump on his tax returns, family-separation policy, business interests and his role in arranging hush payments to women with whom he allegedly had affairs.
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The omertà moment amounted to Trump decrying that one of his associates, ex-fixer Michael Cohen, actually cooperated with federal investigators exploring hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Their family trip also comes as Donald is embroiled in allegations that he had affairs with two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, while married to Melania in 2006.
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Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight felony charges, including two counts of violating campaign finance law by arranging payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen is currently awaiting a three-year prison sentence over charges of bank and tax fraud and campaign finance violations related to payments he made to women alleging to have had affairs with Trump.
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The sentence comes after Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges in August, including campaign finance violations stemming from payments to two women alleging to have had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, said in court in August that Trump directed him to make payments during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed they had had affairs with the future President.
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Federal agents reportedly seized financial records, communications between Trump and Cohen and materials related to Cohen's payment of two women who have alleged they had affairs with the president more than a decade ago.
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Cohen is facing a wide-ranging federal investigation into his finances -- including potential bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and hush payments to women saying they had affairs with Trump, which the President has denied.
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On the same day, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple charges, and said he had made payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump to keep them quiet.
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Federal prosecutors were reportedly seeking information on payments made to two women, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who both claim to have had affairs with Trump years ago.
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WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen said in an interview broadcast Friday that he knew arranging payments during the 2016 campaign to quiet two women who claimed to have had affairs with President Trump was wrong.
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It happened during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, when he instructed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay a combined $280,000 in hush money to two women with whom Trump evidently had affairs.
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FBI officials, who are investigating Cohen's role in providing hush payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump, took the recording into custody during a raid on the lawyer's office and residence.
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He told a federal court in New York that Trump had directed him to arrange payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen, who is cooperating with Mueller, is also due to be sentenced next week on other criminal charges, including ones related to hush money payments to woman who have said they had affairs with Trump.
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Mr. Cohen served for more than a decade as a trusted fixer for Mr. Trump, and during the campaign had helped tamp down brewing scandals about women who claimed to have had affairs with him.
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Asked about the recent National Enquirer report alleging her husband has had affairs with five different women, Heidi called it "garbage" and echoed the Texas senator's accusation that Trump peddled the story to the press.
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I am aware of women I know who have either had affairs or certainly thought about it, so I was happy to explore it and not be terribly concerned about what people thought of it.
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Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election.
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Lawmakers' questions largely focused on the president's conduct and and business, and particularly Cohen's allegations about Trump's involvement in a scheme to pay off women who claimed they had affairs with him before the election.
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Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, also pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight felony charges, including two counts of violating campaign finance law by arranging payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Pecker met with the prosecution to discuss Cohen's involvement in nondisclosure agreements with two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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The sentence occurred after Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges, including campaign finance violations stemming from payments to keep two women quiet after they say they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in August to not reporting hush-money payments to two women, Clifford and Playboy model Karen McDougal, with whom Trump allegedly had affairs as illegal campaign donations.
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In a stunning court appearance, the man who once described himself as Trump's personal "fixer" acknowledged that he paid off two women ahead of the 2016 presidential election who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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The fact is that most Americans now believe that Trump's relationship to the Russian hacking and the hush money payments to women who say they had affairs with him are unethical or flat-out illegal.
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Prosecutors working for the Southern District of New York have said Cohen made payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump "in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1" — Trump.
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But later, it turned out, she had affairs with two top F.B.I. counterintelligence agents in California, James J. Smith and William Cleveland Jr., and became a double agent for some 18 years, starting in 1984.
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The campaign finance violations relate to two payments Mr. Cohen said he made to two women during the 2016 campaign to prevent them from publicly airing their allegations that they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Cohen said in court that Mr. Trump directed him before the 2016 election to arrange payments to a pornographic film actress and a former Playboy model, who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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And the Justice Department is currently investigating Mr. Trump's longtime attorney, Michael S. Cohen, for possible violations of campaign finance laws related to payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In 2015, Pecker was reportedly in the room with Trump and his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen as they devised strategies for quashing reports on accounts from women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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It said Cohen "acted on his client's instructions" when he was involved in making hush-money payments in 2016 to two women who allege they had had affairs with Trump years before he ran for president.
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Kohut allegedly had affairs with both women, and according to an arrest warrant served on Stephens' in Arizona by the Pima County Sheriff's Department, children allegedly were abused during one of those sexual encounters, repots KSBW.
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The 34-year-old was romantically linked to Tiger Woods, sparking a sex scandal that would last for months as more and more women came forward claiming they had affairs with the then-married golf star.
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Republicans who believe the issue is fair game argue that Clinton is vulnerable to questions about how she treated the women her husband had affairs with -- and less the fact that the affairs happened at all.
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime personal and business attorney, has pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including two campaign finance charges stemming from his payment of hush money to women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs.
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Cohen implicated the president in a felony by pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, saying he arranged payments involving two women who say they had affairs with Trump at the direction of the then-Republican candidate.
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During his guilty plea last month, Cohen appeared to implicate Trump in a scheme aimed at buying the silence of Daniels and another woman, Karen McDougal, who both claim they had affairs with Trump in 85033.
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Trump directed Cohen to pay off both porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, both of whom have alleged they had affairs with the President in the mid 33s, during the 2016 campaign.
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The sudden surge in personal attacks against Rosenstein and Mueller seems like it's coming in response to a Justice Department investigation into Cohen for payments he made to women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Mr. Cohen has implicated the president in a scheme to pay hush money to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison in December, above.
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Driving the news: Earlier this week Jennifer Blakely published a Medium post that not only detailed her volatile relationship with Drummond but also alleged that he had affairs with at least two other Alphabet/Google employees.
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Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison for lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws regarding payments during the campaign to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Donald Trump.
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The district attorney's office, led by Cyrus Vance, is investigating the Trump Organization's handling of hush money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump, though the president has denied both encounters.
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The district attorney's office, led by Cyrus Vance, is investigating the Trump Organization's handling of hush money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump, though the president has denied both encounters.
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The report, which cited multiple sources familiar with the matter, said authorities are additionally looking into whether the former fixer broke any laws by arranging financial deals with women claiming to have had affairs with Trump.
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That same day, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen plead guilty in New York to eight felony counts, including two related to the payment of hush money to women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Federal agents raided his home, hotel room and office earlier this month, seizing financial records, communications between him and his clients and materials related to payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Over six seasons, viewers watched this group of friends living lasciviously, and often hectically, as they fell in and out of love, had affairs, and had babies, all while maintaining close-knit friendships with one another.
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In the report, we detail how Mr. Trump could be personally liable for unlawful campaign contributions in the form of payments involving Mr. Cohen to silence women who claimed that they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Other investigations are focused on his businesses and financial dealings, hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with him, and questions over the funding of his charitable foundation and presidential inaugural committee.
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In that case, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, making false statements to a bank, and to campaign contribution crimes related to the payments of hush money to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump.
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In dramatic testimony on Tuesday, Cohen told a federal court in Manhattan that Trump had directed him to arrange payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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But the revelation that a series of women said they had affairs with him while he was married to Elin Nordegren seriously damaged his image, and a series of back problems and surgeries imperiled his athletic performance.
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When Tapper pointed out that Trump has hit his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over how she allegedly treated women who had affairs with her husband, Bill Clinton, during the 1990s, Manafort said there's a key difference.
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Search warrants unsealed Thursday, July 18, 2019, shed new light on the president's role as his campaign scrambled to respond to media inquiries about hush money paid to two women who said they had affairs with him.
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These crimes include five counts of tax evasion and making "hush money" payments to adult film director and actress Stormy Daniels, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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The president's personal lawyer–slash–consigliere extracting millions of dollars from major corporations with business before the government and depositing it into a slush fund that he used to pay women who apparently had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen later pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance law through his involvement in hush-money payments made to two women ahead of the 2016 presidential election, both of whom claim they had affairs with Trump years earlier.
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The seized materials reportedly include information related to women who allege that they had affairs with Trump, as well as the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape — in which Trump is heard on a hot mic making lewd remarks.
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Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison for lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws regarding his payments during the campaign to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Donald Trump.
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Cohen testified extensively about Trump's involvement in a scheme to pay off women who claimed to have had affairs with him during the 2016 campaign — in connection with which Cohen pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance law.
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He has denied that he directed Cohen to break the law and insisted that hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign to women that alleged they had affairs with Trump did not constitute campaign finance law violations.
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Friday's court filing was the first time prosecutors said Cohen acted at the direction of Trump to make payments to silence women who claim to have had affairs with Trump prior to his time running for office.
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Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for crimes that included making false statements to Congress, tax evasion, and arranging payments during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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In this exchange, Giuliani manages to both echo gangster talk ("motivation to sing like crazy") and also admit the president has lied about the payments that Cohen made to two women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs.
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The staff of the Wall Street Journal received the award for national reporting for its work in following Trump's hush money payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with him ahead of the 2016 election.
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Finally, Mr. Cohen's cooperation continues to portend trouble for President Trump, the Trump Organization and the Trump political campaign, in conjunction with the payments Mr. Cohen arranged to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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On Friday, federal prosecutors said Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, was directed by Trump to make payments during the 2016 presidential race to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with the real estate mogul.
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is potentially facing years in prison as federal agents look into payoffs to a pair of women who claim they had affairs with Trump before he won the White House.
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Among the things that the F.B.I. was looking for when it raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, above, on Monday: records of payments to two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Cosby admitted in the deposition that he had affairs with young models and actresses, that he obtained quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with and that he gave Constand three pills at his home.
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The data, part of the JFK files recently released by the National Archives, also includes the assertion that singer Joan Baez was among the multiple women with whom King allegedly had affairs, the New York Daily News reported.
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The panel, the letters said, also seeks information about payments made before the 193 presidential election by former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen to buy the silence of women who claimed they had affairs with the married Trump.
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The document states that Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump in steering payments to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women claiming they had affairs with Trump, before the 2016 presidential election.
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Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for lying to Congress, personal financial crimes, and a campaign finance violation pertaining to election year payments he made to women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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The document states that Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump before the election in steering payments to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women claiming they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison for a slew of federal charges, including campaign finance violations related to payments made during the presidential campaign to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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The campaign finance violation to which Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday relates to his nondisclosure payments to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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The investigation ultimately led to Cohen pleading guilty to counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations, charges related to hush money payments during the 2016 campaign to women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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The document states that Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump in steering payments to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women claiming they had affairs with Trump, before the 2016 presidential election.
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In the process, I have secretly eloped, dated, and had affairs with men that were disastrous for me, despite meeting ethnic and physical requirements, because my self-worth was still determined by who and when I got married.
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And CNN reported late Thursday that Trump had been in the room when hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with him were discussed by Cohen and David Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer.
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Cohen is willing to detail -- if asked -- then-candidate Trump's role in directing payments to two women who have claimed they had affairs with Trump and how his election played a role in that, according to the source.
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Years before top Visa exec Jim McCarthy was fired for "violating Visa policy," he had affairs with two women at the company who worked for him in his division, four people with knowledge of the relationships told Recode.
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Michael Cohen: President Trump's former personal lawyer, who implicated the president in a scheme to pay hush money to two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump, has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on Feb.
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During his first year in office, the president routinely signed checks to Michael Cohen, then his lawyer, who has said they were compensation for hush payments to two women who claimed they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Cohen reported to prison in upstate New York on Monday after pleading guilty to personal financial crimes and arranging a hush-money scheme to pay off two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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That means prosecutors can use the vast majority of the files in their wide-ranging inquiry into Mr. Cohen's business dealings, including hush-money payments he helped arrange for women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Cohen is a key figure in the Russia probe and played a central role in negotiating payouts to a porn star and a Playboy playmate who claim they had affairs with Trump, allegations which his representatives have denied.
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Concealed in plain sight, my whole life, amid the moral rigidity and Swedish standoffishness of my father's family, had been a regular guy who had affairs and drove to Baltimore with his buddies and manfully accepted his fate.
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On the agenda are Mr. Trump's role in hush payments to women who said they had affairs with him, reports that he dangled pardons to immigration officials and whether his resort properties have illegally profited from government business.
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Mr. Cohen had pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and other crimes in connection with a scheme to pay hush money to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In pleading guilty last year to helping arrange hush payments during the campaign to women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen implicated the president, and prosecutors later said Mr. Trump directed the payments.
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Yes, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, is married to a woman 29 years older than he, and I have friends who have had affairs with men 18 or 20 years younger, but that was when they were 40!
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In December, Cohen was sentenced by a federal judge to three years in prison for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump, in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election.
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The district attorney's office is seeking the records as part of a grand jury investigation into payments made ahead of the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, women who allege that they had affairs with Trump.
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The former self-described Trump "fixer," who had a falling out with the president, could produce fireworks when he faces questions about the Russia investigation and hush-money payments to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen previously served as Trump's longtime personal attorney and fixer, but has since said he committed campaign finance violations at Trump's direction when he paid two women during the 2016 election who alleged they had affairs with the president.
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Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to eight felony charges, including violating campaign finance law by arranging payments during the campaign to two women who say they had affairs with Trump years ago.
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Graham dismissed allegations that Trump ordered his onetime lawyer Michael Cohen to make payments to two women claiming to have had affairs with Trump in order to buy their silence in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.
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Among the documents the agents sought were some related to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the role of the publisher of The National Enquirer in silencing one of the women.
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The newly empowered Democrats summoned the president's longtime personal lawyer to testify after he implicated Mr. Trump in an illegal scheme to arrange hush payments before the 2016 election for women who claimed to have had affairs with him.
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Michael Cohen: President Trump's former personal lawyer, who implicated the president in a scheme to pay hush money to two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump, has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on Feb. 7.
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American Media admitted to federal prosecutors that it had helped orchestrate hush-money deals involving two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump: the former Playboy model Karen McDougal and the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels.
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He had also drawn attention for arranging hush-money payments during the 2016 election to two women, the former Playboy model Karen McDougal and the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who had claimed they had affairs with the president.
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On Friday, federal prosecutors accused President Donald Trump of directing and coordinating illegal payments that his longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, made shortly before the 2016 election to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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A surprising posthumous chapter was added to the legacy of Richard Pryor's infamously chaotic love life this week when Quincy Jones, and later his ex-wife Jennifer Lee, claimed that the late comic had affairs with men, including Marlon Brando.
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Donald Trump's clown of a former fixer Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison on Wednesday after orchestrating hush money payments to two women who said they had affairs with the now-president prior to his 2016 election.
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Trump made the comments one day after Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included tax evasion, lying to Congress, and setting up illegal hush-money payments to women who claimed they had had affairs with Trump.
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The meeting with Cohen indicates prosecutors are interested in matters at the Trump Organization that go beyond its role in the illegal hush payments before the 2016 presidential election made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Five years later, and she was married to Jones, and the couple's royal wedding was the first to be televised in the UK. After 20 years of marriage, the couple announced they would separate after they both reportedly had affairs.
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Last August, cornered by federal prosecutors in New York, Cohen pleaded guilty to a cascade of financial crimes, the most politically important of which was covering up hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Just last week, investigators, under Khuzami's orders, seized materials reportedly related to 2016 payouts to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump in return for their silence: adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal.
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Just last week, investigators, under Khuzami's orders, seized materials reportedly related to 153 payouts to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump in return for their silence: adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal.
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The first lady's relatively rare public comments come as her husband, President Donald Trump, is embroiled in allegations that he had affairs with two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, while married to Melania in 24.
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Other odds and ends The Mueller report also documents a lie about hush money payments made to women alleging they'd had affairs with Trump, as well as a false statement to the public about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Some Democrats contend Trump obstructed justice by trying to impede the Mueller probe and violated campaign finance laws in 2016 by allegedly making hush money payments through his former lawyer to two women who claimed they had affairs with him.
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Cohen admitted facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the election, at Trump's behest, to prevent their accounts of having had affairs with Trump thwart his chances of winning the White House.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Saturday after the Senate Intelligence Committee member told MSNBC that a sentencing memo filed by federal prosecutors on Friday implicated the president in directing illegal payments to women who claimed they had affairs with him.
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In August, Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to bank and tax fraud, as well as campaign finance law violations relating to payments to buy the silence of two women claiming they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Read more: Former top Trump aide Jason Miller joins CNN as contributorIn the deposition, Miller said he had affairs with two campaign staffers, including Delgado, while on the campaign trail and while his wife was pregnant with their second child.
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Democratic-controlled committees are likely to probe a range of issues including Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Michael Cohen's payments to women who say they've had affairs with Trump (allegations he denies), potential obstruction of justice and Trump's finances.
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"I mean, the president's rollout of explaining this has not been clear," Baier said on Friday, referring to comments Trump made about payments his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen made to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Lawmakers noted that Cohen implicated President Trump when entering his guilty plea this week, saying the president directed him during the 2016 election to pay a pair of women who have claimed to have had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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According to Bezos, news of the investigation infuriated AMI chief David Pecker, whose close ties to President Trump have led to scrutiny over his role in the payments between Trump's team and multiple women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last month in federal court in Manhattan to bank and tax fraud, as well as campaign finance law violations relating to payments to buy the silence of two women claiming they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Cohen over the summer pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to bank and tax fraud, as well as campaign finance law violations relating to payments to buy the silence of two women claiming they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last month in federal court in Manhattan to bank and tax fraud, as well as campaign finance law violations relating to payments to buy the silence of two women claiming they had affairs with Trump in 2202.
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The revelation of the existence of the recordings has raised further questions about what Trump knew and when he knew it about various hush payments made on his behalf to women who have claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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The subpoena for Trump's taxes, issued by the Manhattan district attorney's office, is part of a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Organization fabricated business records related to hush-money payments made to women who say they've had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen claimed before the House Oversight and Reform Committee that Weisselberg would be able to support his claims that the president knew about the hush money payments made to women claiming they'd had affairs with Trump, among other business deals.
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Cohen told a federal judge on Tuesday that Trump had directed him during the 2016 campaign to buy the silence of two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Trump, who denies he had affairs with the woman, has given various accounts of when he learned of the payments, insisted they were not connected to his campaign, and said that any culpability for the deals lies with his former attorney.
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He was granted immunity last year to testify before a grand jury in the Manhattan US attorney's office's investigation into several hush-money payments that Cohen facilitated during the election to women who said they have had affairs with Trump.
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In the first, he admitted to committing campaign finance violations by arranging hush money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, as well as financial crimes, in a case brought by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
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Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison, in part for his role in a scheme during the 20183 campaign to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Investigating the Trump Organization: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining what executives of the Trump family business knew about criminal payments by Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, to silence two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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After former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's bombshell confession under oath that the president of the United States was a co-conspirator on campaign finance violations of arranging payments to women Trump had affairs with, House Democrats want to know more.
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The review is important because it will shape the contours of the evidence that prosecutors can use as they investigate Mr. Cohen's business dealings, including hush-money payments he made to women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Just last week, Mr. Cohen discovered that he is now the subject of a federal investigation seeking to determine if he broke the law by trying to tamp down scandals involving women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In a guilty plea, his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said Trump ordered him to arrange payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with him -- effectively making the President an unindicted co-conspirator in a violation of campaign finance law.
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He showed me his inscribed first edition of "My Bondage and My Freedom" and told me he knew all about the size of Frederick Douglass's penis and the smallness of the vaginas of the white women with whom he had affairs.
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Trump also outright accused Cohen of having lied under oath in August when he told a federal judge that it was at Trump's direction that he facilitated hush agreements for women who alleged to have had affairs with the President.
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Washington (CNN)A top figure in President Donald Trump's orbit was granted immunity in the investigation into hush money payments made to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump, a sources familiar with the matter told CNN Friday.
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The crimes pertain to two hush money payments Cohen made during the campaign to former Playmate Karen McDougal and adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who both claim to have had affairs with Trump years before he took over the Oval Office.
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Read: Stormy Daniels is doing what ever it takes to talk about Trump on 03 Minutes Legal bills are mounting for Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, and Summer Zervos, women who say they had affairs with or were sexually harassed by Donald Trump.
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AMI's chairman and CEO, David Pecker, received immunity from federal prosecutors in August 2018 for testimony about the president's knowledge of payments Trump's former attorney (and soon-to-be jailbird) Michael Cohen made to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Mr. Costello and Mr. Giuliani crossed paths last year at a critical juncture in the investigation of another Trump associate, Michael D. Cohen, who eventually pleaded guilty to helping arrange hush money payments to women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Vance's office is known to be investigating — at the very least — how the Trump Organization accounted for hush money payments made in the months before the 2016 presidential election by others to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump years before.
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The latest: Trump organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity to talk to federal prosecutors about the payments former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made during the 2016 campaign to two women who had affairs with Trump, per the Wall Street Journal.
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Trump, his ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, chairman of the parent company of the National Enquirer, talked about a plan to shield Trump from potentially damaging stories and pay hush money to women who claimed they'd had affairs with him.
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President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes yesterday, the most incendiary of them related to paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs, ahead of the 2016 election.
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My idealization of her twisted into unbounded resentment: she'd gone off to work and had affairs and left me to the mercies of my father's rages; she'd bought herself fur coats and Sonia Rykiel pantsuits while I looked like a waif, etc.
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The subpoena to the Trump Organization is seeking communications between the company and representatives for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, the women who alleged they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The document provided a detailed, on-the-record glimpse of what took place between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump in relation to arranging payments to two women who said during the 2016 campaign that they had previously had affairs with the candidate.
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The NYT won for its investigation into how the Trump family avoided paying a half-billion dollars in taxes, while the WSJ was recognized for revealing hush-money payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The federal judge at that trial had deemed Gates' relationship off-limits, but when a defense attorney asked Gates about how he was funding his "secret life," the longtime Manafort aide essentially blurted out that he'd had affairs and it was wrong.
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As journalist Brittany Shepherd noted on Twitter, there are now those on Etsy who lionize the Southern District of New York, where the investigations into the hush money that Trump allegedly paid women with whom he'd had affairs will be taking place.
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The campaign crimes related to hush-money payments Cohen facilitated for two women — porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal — shortly before the 2016 presidential election to keep them from publicizing their claims of having had affairs with Trump a decade earlier.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 20173 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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On that point, when he just makes one of these unsubstantiated claims, there may be two more women who allege that they had affairs with President Trump, instead of the anchor saying, yeah, what proof do you have, they say, oh, tell us more.
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Davis said the committee would announce a "future date" for testimony from Cohen, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to Congress, financial crimes, and campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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The first lady appeared to be in higher spirits Friday than in recent weeks following allegations that the president had affairs with porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal in 2006, shortly after the Trumps' son, Barron, now 11, was born.
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The administration also must contend with inquiries from federal prosecutors in Manhattan looking into the payments made to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 85033 election, meaning it has at least three flanks to consider given Mueller's continuing work.
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Speaking to CNN in his first public comments since the raid, the attorney said "[he] would be lying" if he said he wasn't worried about the search, which is reportedly related to payments made to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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When the FBI raided Cohen's office and residences in early April, they sought -- among other items -- records of Cohen's communications with AMI, Pecker, and Howard about two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, three people familiar with the investigation told the Post.
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Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included two campaign finance violations tied to payments he made or helped arrange to silence two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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The New York prosecutors, who are operating on a separate track from Mr. Mueller's team, are investigating Mr. Cohen on a number of fronts, including payments he arranged before the presidential election to women who had claimed that they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In the eyes of the public and the courts, Mr. Cohen is so far the only one who has paid a price for a role with Mr. Trump that involved payoffs during the 2016 campaign to women who have said they had affairs with him.
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In a separate inquiry pursued by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Michael D. Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including campaign finance violations related to payments he made to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The president's legal team appears to be falling apart just as his legal problems are mounting, both from the Russia investigation and, more recently, from women who say they've had affairs with Mr. Trump and are seeking to be released from agreements to silence them.
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The Thursday morning tweets came after a federal judge sentenced Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday for various crimes, including campaign finance violations involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Agents in New York raided the offices of his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, as part of an investigation into secret payments made during the campaign to silence women who said they had had affairs with the president — a campaign finance violation.
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According to the New York district attorney's office, the investigation relates in part to hush money payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, and the involvement of the Trump Organization in orchestrating those payments.
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R. Gurney, described dismissively as a "minor late-20043th-, early-21st-century" writer of the "middle-class comedy of manners," who it now emerges had not only secretly written an earthshaking drama but also had affairs with Cameron Diaz and both Audrey and Katharine Hepburn.
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He is also certain to be asked about accusations that the then-Republican presidential nominee ordered him to pay hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump because he was worried about the impact of the scandal on the 2016 election.
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Washington (CNN)Federal investigators in New York have "gathered more evidence than previously known" from individuals in the President's "inner circle," related to the hush-money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with President Donald Trump, Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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He said he violated campaign finance laws in coordination with and at the direction of an unnamed candidate — presumably Trump — in coordinating payouts to porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom alleged to have had affairs with Trump.
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The probe into the inaugural committee comes as Trump and his White House are already facing investigations into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, hush-money payments to women claiming to have had affairs with Trump and spending by Trump's foundation, among other issues.
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The meeting with Cohen indicates prosecutors are interested in matters at the Trump Organization that go beyond its role in the illegal hush payments before the 2016 presidential election made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, the New York Times said.
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Flynn's aborted sentencing came a week after Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes, and for campaign violations related to hush-money payments shortly before the election to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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Critics' drumbeat for impeachment has grown louder since Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to Congress about Trump's prior business dealings with Russia and making illegal "hush money" payments to women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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" National Reporting (1948-present) Winner: Staff of The Wall Street Journal "for uncovering President Trump's secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.
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Cohen's hearing late last month before the House Oversight Committee, in which he said Trump was directly engaged in bank fraud and involved in a scheme to silence women who alleged they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago, gave new momentum to impeachment proponents.
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Cohen is due to report to prison early next month for a slew of federal charges to which he pleaded guilty last year, including campaign finance violations stemming from a scheme to pay off women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
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The sentence stems from eight federal charges to which Cohen pleaded guilty in August, including campaign finance violations tied to a scheme to pay off women alleging to have had affairs with Trump in order to prevent damaging information from surfacing during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he does not believe his personal lawyer Michael Cohen will flip and cooperate with federal investigators, after FBI agents raided Cohen's office and hotel room last week, seizing materials that reportedly include information related to women Trump allegedly had affairs with.
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Federal prosecutors on Friday recommended Cohen receive "substantial" prison time for several federal crimes, including campaign finance law violations related to payments they said Cohen made to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women claiming they had affairs with Trump, before the 2016 presidential election.
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But the new case, concerning an investigation by Manhattan prosecutors into hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, will be the Supreme Court's first chance to consider the president's arguments that he is beyond the reach of the justice system.
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More on the National Enquirer's Pecker… While Cohen has already pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations surrounding payments he made on behalf of Trump to bury allegations from two women who maintain they had affairs with Trump, federal investigators are apparently not done looking into the matter.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that the agents who conducted the raid were searching for documents related to payments to two women — adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who have alleged they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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By December 2018, Giuliani had also dismissed payments meant to silence women who said they had affairs with Trump, one of whom was porn star Stormy Daniels, as "not a crime," days after Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen was sentenced in part for facilitating the payments.
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In the filing by the Southern District of New York last Friday, prosecutors made clear that they believe Trump coordinated and directed six-figure payouts to two women who were threatening to take their allegations that they had affairs with Trump public during the 2016 campaign.
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York on Friday detailed an elaborate criminal scheme in which Cohen made or facilitated payments to an adult film actress and a former Playboy model, both of whom claimed to have had affairs with Trump (allegations Trump denies).
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He's saying that not only should no one blame Trump for, uh, misremembering events surrounding, among other things, payoffs to two women alleging they had affairs with him, but also that the conclusions reached by federal prosecutors that Trump directed and coordinated these payments should be discounted.
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Bloomberg News reports that federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking at current members of the company to determine whether other employees of the Trump Organization were involved in Cohen's payments to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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But Trump's other line of attack, that Clinton mistreated women who had affairs with her husband, former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE, is politically stupid.
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office subpoenaed eight years of Trump's corporate and personal taxes as part of an investigation into whether the Trump Organization violated New York laws by fabricating business records connected to hush-money payments made to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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The FBI's raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was seeking information about payments related to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, two women who had affairs with now-President Trump, in addition to any potential role from the publisher of The National Enquirer, the NYTimes reported Tuesday.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen said his former boss knew that having Cohen arranging payments during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump was wrong, and that he is "done being loyal" to Trump.
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All this comes just days after prosecutors announced that they believed that Mr. Trump had conspired with the owner of The National Enquirer and his fixer Michael Cohen to violate campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women who said they had affairs with him.
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The materials were seized on the orders of prosecutors in Manhattan who have been trying to determine whether Mr. Cohen broke the law in any of his business projects, including hush-money payments he made to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to a range of charges on Tuesday, testified that Trump had directed him to commit a crime before the 2016 presidential election by arranging payments to silence two women who said they had affairs with the New York businessman.
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Prosecutors demanded information from a wide breadth of records, including documents related to the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Mr. Trump made vulgar comments about women, and materials related to secret agreements Mr. Cohen made with women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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They seized evidence of possible federal crimes — including bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations related to payoffs made to women, including a porn actress, who say they had affairs with the president before he took office and were paid off and intimidated into silence.
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The policy, popular with evangelical groups vital to the President's electoral coalition, happened to come out at a moment when Trump was under extreme political and legal pressure over lawsuits brought by women who claimed they had had affairs or had been sexually harassed by him.
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He made up a legal loophole to argue that the hush money paid to women before the 2016 election who alleged they had affairs with him -- payments Cohen said were made at his direction -- did not break the law since it did not come from campaign funds.
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In addition to the taxi records, officials seized communications between Cohen and Trump, and documents related to related to payments to two women — adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who have claimed they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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Mr. Schiff declined to name specific witnesses except Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former personal lawyer who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump Organization's dealings with Russia and to buying the silence of two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In the last two years, the company has also been under scrutiny from federal investigators and Democrats in Congress, particularly after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to arranging hush money payments during the presidential campaign to two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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At his sentencing in December, Mr. Cohen apologized for his role in a hush-money scheme to buy the silence of an adult-film star and a former Playboy model who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, in order to help Mr. Trump's election prospects.
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An Investigation This week the National Enquirer came out with a story claiming that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz had affairs with five unnamed women, an allegation that sparked a bunch of online rumors about who the mistresses could be but hasn't been confirmed by anyone else.
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President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars for making secret payments to women who alleged they had affairs with Trump, lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia and failing to report millions of dollars in income.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he found out only after the fact about payments his then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump, adding that the money came from him and not his campaign.
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In a rare and revealing interview, the Hollywood icon opens up to PEOPLE about her life now, her successes and struggles in Hollywood – and a few of her most memorable onscreen love interests like Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Steve McQueen, and whether or not they had affairs offscreen.
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Cohen admitted as part of his criminal case to arranging for the payment of a total of $280,000 to two women — porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal — in 2016 to keep them quiet about their claims of having had affairs with Trump dating back a decade.
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime fixer, pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one charge of banking fraud, and a pair of campaign-finance violations—which were in fact the payments of hush money to silence two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr Trump.
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Former Trump campaign and White House aide Hope Hicks may be out of the woods when it comes to the Southern District of New York's now-concluded investigation of the illegal hush payments former Trump fixer Michael Cohen made to women who say they had affairs with Donald Trump.
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He pleaded guilty last year to tax evasion and campaign finance violations related to hush money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump years before he ran for president, as well as lying to Congress about details surrounding an aborted Trump Tower Moscow project.
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Cohen may have implicated Trump by stating that "a candidate for federal office" (which is universally understood to be Trump) directed payments prior to the 2016 presidential election to two women who claim to have had affairs with him, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Manhattan-based prosecutors have been probing potential campaign finance violations related to the Trump Organization attempting to reimburse the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen for payments he made during the 2016 election to buy the silence of two women who have claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Federal prosecutors in New York said that Trump directed Cohen, his former personal attorney and "fixer," to steer money to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump in order to prevent negative information from surfacing that would hurt his chances in the 2016 election.
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According to prosecutors, Cohen admitted he "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump when he made or helped arrange hush money payments to a Playboy model and an adult film actress in order to silence claims they each had affairs with Trump before he was President.
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Agents conducting the Monday morning raid on Cohen's hotel room, home and office were reportedly seeking documents related to payments made to two women — adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who have said they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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Cohen on Wednesday pleaded guilty to tax and bank fraud charges related to his taxi medallion business, lying to Congress about discussions about building a Trump Tower in Moscow, and campaign finance violations by way of hush money payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Mr. Khuzami's decision to leave the Southern District of New York caps a consequential 15-month tenure as Mr. Berman's deputy; most notably, he oversaw the investigation into hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In December, Cohen was sentenced by a federal judge in Manhattan to two months for those lies to Congress, although that term will run simultaneously with the three years he got for arranging hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump and unrelated financial crimes.
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Prosecutors have been eager to get their hands on the documents and data in order to pursue a stalled investigation into whether Mr. Cohen broke the law in various business dealings, including two hush-money payments he made to women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Those include whether his campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election, if the president obstructed a federal investigation into the matter and what role Mr. Trump played in paying to silence two women in the closing weeks of the campaign who say they had affairs with him.
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Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, the agents were looking for evidence that Mr. Cohen broke the law in his wide-ranging business deals — among them, hush-money payments that he made to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Here are six takeaways from Cohen's hearing: Cohen's remarkable accusations For the first time in a nationally televised setting, Cohen accused the President of directing him to commit the crimes he pleaded guilty to last year when he paid hush money to women alleging they had affairs with Trump.
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Cohen confirmed Trump directed him to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal In pleading guilty in the Southern District of New York, Cohen said -- and prosecutors confirmed -- that Trump had directed and coordinated hush money payments to the two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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But he said in December that the committee would begin investigating facts presented by federal prosecutors that strongly point to Mr. Trump's involvement in hush-money payments just before the 2016 election to two women who claim to have had affairs with him, a violation of campaign finance law.
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Since Mueller's testimony in July, Nadler has broadened the investigation to include allegations that Trump has improperly mixed his business interests with his role as president, dangled pardons to encourage official misconduct and paid money during the 2016 campaign to silence women claiming to have had affairs with him.
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Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York are digging into the Trump campaign's finances — an investigation stemming at least in part from Cohen's admission that he committed campaign finance violations by facilitating hush-money payments to two women during the 2016 election who claimed they had affairs with Trump years earlier.
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One of his friends and most committed supporters, evangelical leader and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., Trump's policies, and has vouched for the president as a "good, moral person " even amid allegations that he was involved in multiple hush money payments to women who claimed they had affairs with him.
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Cohen implicated Trump when he said that "a candidate for federal office" (which is universally understood to be Trump) directed payments prior to the 2016 presidential election to two women who claim to have had affairs with him, porn star Stormy Daniels, 39, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, 47.
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Goldberg also criticized Trump's personal legal team over its handling of his former longtime fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, who implicated Trump last month in campaign finance violations related to payments he made to buy the silence of two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Cohen will soon begin a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a slew of charges, including lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and campaign finance violations regarding hush money payments he made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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In their latest filing, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York stated Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump before the presidential campaign in arranging payments to silence Daniels and Karen McDougal, who both claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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A Gallup poll published Thursday found that 29 percent of adults said they believe Trump broke the law by colluding with Russia during the campaign, and 31 percent think he broke the law by making illegal hush-money payments to two women in 2016 who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Federal prosectors in New York on Friday indicated without using his name that Trump directed Cohen to steer money to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump to prevent negative information from from surfacing in the midst of his 85033 campaign, breaking campaign finance law.
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Hicks was mentioned at least 183 times in a redacted version of Mueller's report, released on April 18, and Judiciary Committee Democrats wanted to ask her about alleged hush money payments made during the campaign to two women, including porn actress Stormy Daniels, who say they had affairs with Trump.
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Aides said he was still testing his limits as president while also feeling embattled by incoming fire — from Congress, the Russia investigation, foreign entanglements, a potential trade war and a pornographic film actress and a Playboy model who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump and were paid to keep quiet.
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"Michael Cohen's ... guilty plea to felony counts of tax fraud and bank fraud, and campaign finance violations involving the payment of hush money to women alleged to have had affairs with Trump is yet another set of convictions of the president's inner circle," Representative Adam Schiff said in a statement.
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The court filing in the case of Mr. Cohen, President Trump's self-described fixer, indicates for the first time that others at Mr. Trump's company had a role in the financial arrangements used to silence women who claimed that they had affairs with him, after the hush money payments were made.
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Nadler has since broadened the investigation to other kinds of potential misconduct, including accusations that Trump has improperly mixed his business interests with his role as president, dangled pardons to encourage official misconduct and paid money during the 2016 campaign to silence women claiming to have had affairs with him.
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Remember how reluctant House leaders were to launch an impeachment inquiry in 2019 even after allegations he obstructed justice during the Russia investigation, allegations he violated the Constitution by accepting U.S. and foreign government money at his resorts and allegations he made hush money payments to women he had affairs with?
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Mr. Scott has been a top surrogate for Mr. Trump since the 2016 campaign, when they were first introduced by Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former personal lawyer who implicated the president in a scheme to pay hush money to two women who said they had had affairs with him.
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The backdrop: The legal fight over Trump's tax returns started in August when Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. subpoenaed Mazars as part of a criminal investigation into allegations that the Trump Organization made hush money payments during the 2016 presidential election to two women who had affairs with Trump.
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For months now, the authorities have been investigating whether Mr. Cohen violated the law in his wide-ranging business deals, including hush-money payments that he made to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump — among them Stephanie Clifford, a former pornographic film star better known as Stormy Daniels.
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Mr. Nadler has said that he also plans to investigate Mr. Trump's role in hush-money payments made shortly before Election Day in 2016 to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump — circumstances that, if true, he said would most likely meet the criteria for an impeachable offense.
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The source said that several topics did not come up during Wednesday's interview included the initial misleading statement crafted on Air Force One about the Trump Tower meeting and the hush money payments Cohen facilitated in the run up to the 2016 election to silence allegations that Trump had affairs with two women.
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Although Trump's tweet suggested that those crimes are unrelated to the president, the campaign violations that Cohen admitted committing involved hush-money payments the lawyer facilitated to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claim to have had affairs with the president more than a decade ago.
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Cohen, 52, pleaded guilty to crimes including tax evasion, lying to Congress about Trump's prior business dealings with Russia, and illegal "hush money" he paid during the 2016 presidential election to buy the silence of pornstar Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claim they had affairs with Trump.
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Although Mueller's office referred an investigation into Cohen's role in orchestrating payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump to federal prosecutors in New York, the report noted the evolution of Trump's feelings toward Cohen — from backing him in the beginning to denouncing him as a "rat" by the end.
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The Wall Street Journal first reported Friday that Allen Weisselberg, who has worked for the company for over 40 years, was given immunity by prosecutors for providing information on payments made in the lead-up to the 2016 election to buy the silence of women who allegedly had affairs with Donald Trump.
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Long the proud bulldog who advocated for Trump at every opportunity, Cohen's misplaced loyalty was one of the factors that led him to break the law during a scheme that involved making payoffs to a porn star and a Playboy model who claimed to have had affairs with Trump (which Trump denies).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump offered up a handful of legal arguments in a series of tweets on Thursday distancing himself from former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for arranging 2016 hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with the married president.
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Cohen may have implicated Trump when he said that "a candidate for federal office" (which is universally understood to be Trump) directed payments prior to the 2016 presidential election to two women who claim to have had affairs with him, porn star Stormy Daniels, 39, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, 47.
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The biggest Trump figure to fall is his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for a variety of crimes, including violation of campaign finance laws — which Trump is also implicated in — due to making hush payments to two women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last year for lying to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Tower Moscow dealings, and the illegal "hush money" he paid during the 2016 presidential election to buy the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claim they had affairs with Trump.
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He pled guilty in August to eight criminal counts, including tax fraud, breaking campaign finance laws and those illegal $150,000 "hush money" payments he made during the 2016 presidential election to buy the silence of pornstar Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claim they had affairs with Trump.
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According to the Times, Trump once asked Whitaker whether the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, could be put in charge of an investigation related to campaign finance violations stemming from an effort to pay off women who claimed they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
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In addition to possible obstruction and pardon dangling, the House committee is investigating alleged hush payments made before the 2016 presidential election to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump and the president's business dealings that could violate constitutional restrictions against officials receiving profits from foreign and domestic governments.
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What the prosecutors did not say in Mr. Cohen's sentencing memorandum filed on Friday, however, is that they have continued to scrutinize what other executives in the president's family business may have known about those crimes, which involved hush-money payments to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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On days when he met foreign leaders, haggled over legislation or reportedly pressured the F.B.I. director to drop an investigation into a former aide, President Trump also signed checks to Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer — remuneration for hush payments made to two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The subpoena was issued less than a day after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Manhattan to charges including campaign finance violations, in the form of payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, for the "purpose of influencing the election" for president in 2016.
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Cohen dealt a potentially significant blow to the president earlier this month after he pleaded guilty to eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations, including charges relating to payments he arranged for women who alleged to have had affairs with Trump in the months leading up to his campaign.
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Background: The legal fight over Trump's tax returns started in August when Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. subpoenaed the president's accounting firm, Mazars, as part of a criminal investigation into allegations that the Trump Organization made hush money payment during the 2016 presidential election to two women who had affairs with Trump.
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He previously pled guilty in August to eight criminal counts, including tax fraud, breaking campaign finance laws and those illegal $150,000 "hush money" payments he made during the 2016 presidential election to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claim they had affairs with Trump.
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are examining Trump's business practices and financial dealings, according to testimony delivered to Congress in February by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who faces a three-year prison term for crimes related to payments arranged to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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In Washington, President Trump has been dogged by revelations about former attorney Michael Cohen's payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, as well as a troubled European trip in which he was widely criticized for appearing to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's claims that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 election.
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Given its explosive mix of money, sex and presidential politics, the case engulfing Mr. Cohen — an investigation into whether he broke the law by suppressing scandals about women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump — was almost certain to provoke a pushback and present a challenge to any judge called upon to manage it.
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Arvad was just the first of Jack's many lovers: He allegedly had affairs with Marilyn Monroe, famous stripped Blaze Starr, Marlene Dietrich (who also had an affair with his father), Jacqueline Kennedy's secretary Pamela Tunure, White House secretaries Jill Cowen and Priscilla Wear, White House intern Mimi Alford, socialite Gunilla Von Post, among others.
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At the moment, the greatest legal peril for Trump may come from the constellation of issues relating to hush money paid during the 21989 campaign to two women who have alleged that they had affairs with Trump: the adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, and Karen McDougal , a former Playboy Playmate.
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A plea deal struck with federal prosecutors by Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, who acknowledged in August that he had made illegal payments to women during the 2016 campaign who had claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump, resulted in another 50 or so pages of reading material for the board to consider.
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And it all played out at a moment Mr. Trump is awash in investigations of possible collusion between Russia and his campaign, inquiries into his business and his family foundation, and allegations that he directed his former lawyer to pay hush money to two women with whom he is alleged to have had affairs.
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The search warrants for the Cohen raids sought records and communications relating to the two financial institutions, Sterling National Bank and the Melrose Credit Union, as well as documents regarding the payments to women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, among other materials, several people with knowledge of the inquiry have said.
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By bringing on Mr. Petrillo, Mr. Cohen will now have an advocate who is well positioned to help him navigate any negotiations with the prosecutors who have spent the past several months looking into his business dealings, including hush-money payments that he made to women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Since Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to helping arrange hush money payments to women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, the prosecutors have focused on what role the Trump Organization and its executives, including its longtime chief financial officer, may have played in the scheme, according to people briefed on the matter.
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NEW YORK, Dec 20163 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will be sentenced on Wednesday for his role in the payment of hush money to women who said they had affairs with Trump and for lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia that was discussed during the 2016 election campaign.
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But the bigger blow came in New York, where Michael Cohen (pictured above), Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and longtime fixer, pleaded guilty to eight counts of tax evasion, banking fraud and campaign-finance violations—which were in fact the payment of hush money to silence two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr Trump.
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His crimes include tax evasion, lying to Congress about Trump's prior business dealings with Russia and illegal "hush money" he paid on the eve of the 2016 election to buy the silence of two women who claim they had affairs with Trump — payments that Cohen said Trump directed him to make, which are felony campaign finance violations.
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In December, Cohen was sentenced to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to crimes including tax evasion, lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia and the illegal "hush money" he paid during the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claimed they had affairs with Trump — for their silence.
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Democrats will be looking at those involved in the June 22019 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin, the Trump Organization's plans to build a Trump property in Moscow and a scheme to pay off two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
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Moreover, many presidents from Thomas Jefferson to Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 85033:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE had affairs, before and after elections, that were actively concealed and kept quiet.
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Omar's comments come after a week in which federal prosecutors in New York for the first time said that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen acted "in coordination with and at the direction" of Trump when he illegally organized nondisclosure payments for two women who alleged they had affairs with the president more than a decade ago.
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In a sentencing memo released on Friday, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said for the first time that Cohen acted "in coordination with and at the direction" of Trump when he organized payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, women who claimed that they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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Now consider what federal prosecutors in the Southern District said they believe Trump and Cohen did in the run-up to the 2016 vote: Direct two six-figure payouts to a porn star and a former Playboy model who said they had affairs with Trump in the mid-2000s -- and were threatening to go public with their stories.
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Democrats approved one dozen new subpoenas for witnesses listed in Mueller's report, including several who have worked in the administration -- Sessions, Jared Kushner, John Kelly -- in addition to others who have not, such as Lewandowski and David Pecker, the American Media executive who helped buy the silence of women who alleged they had affairs with the President.
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Calling on the court to impose a sentence of substantial imprisonment against Michael Cohen, the president's former personal attorney, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York stated that Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization and the campaign were all directly involved in an illegal scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that if there was anything illegal about the hush payments made to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, it was the fault of his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, part of a newly improvised attempt to combat the legal exposure the president may now have because of the payments.
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Cohen detailed Trump's involvement in hush-money payments to women he'd allegedly had affairs with; the President's awareness that his longtime confidante Roger Stone was reaching out to WikiLeaks in an effort to undermine the campaign of his opponent Hillary Clinton; and Trump's knowledge that his company was pursuing a project in Russia well into the 2016 election.
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That's not far from the Boca Raton offices of the National Enquirer — which went so far as to spearhead a "catch and kill" propaganda scheme in 2400 to hush women who allegedly had affairs with Trump — and the influential conservative publication Newsmax, whose CEO, Christopher Ruddy, has known Trump for years as a Mar-a-Lago member.
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Lawmakers leery of impeachment say that Democrats would be better served by expanding their investigations into the president's possible connections to Russian interference in the 2016 election, payments of hush money to women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump, the pursuit of Russian business deals and the financial benefits that he may be reaping from his office.
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WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer who implicated him in a scheme to pay hush money to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, said on Thursday that he had agreed to testify before a House committee next month and give "a full and credible account" of his work for Mr. Trump.
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In the spotlight: Democrats will be looking at those involved in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin, the Trump Organization's plans to build a Trump property in Moscow and a scheme to pay off two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
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The hearing next week before the House Oversight and Reform Committee will give Mr. Cohen, once one of Mr. Trump's most loyal aides, a rare public platform to try to explain his work for the president, including an illegal scheme during the 2016 campaign to pay hush money to two women claiming to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In December, Trump's former "fixer" was sentenced to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to crimes including tax evasion, lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia and the illegal "hush money" he paid during the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — who both claimed they had affairs with Trump — for their silence.
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Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for a series of crimes he committed while working for Trump, including tax and bank fraud as well as campaign finance violations related to payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump and threatened to come forward during the 2016 presidential race.
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While it was not clear whether the prosecutors found Mr. Cohen's information credible and whether they intended to pursue it, the meeting suggests that they are interested in broader aspects of the Trump Organization, beyond their investigation into the company's role in the hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women claiming to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Most serious is the investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, which has already resulted in a three-year prison sentence for Mr. Cohen for his role in committing federal campaign-finance crimes to cover up hush-money payments to women claiming they had affairs with Mr. Trump — a cover-up that prosecutors say Mr. Trump aided after becoming president.
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Two days after longtime Donald Trump crony Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes including helping to pay off women who said they had affairs with his boss, and hours after the public learned National Enquirer boss and Trump ally David Pecker was granted immunity by the feds in that case, we got another hint at how the president's apparently extensively hush-money operation worked.
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Read more: The 2nd Trump whistleblower is an IRS official who alleges a Treasury Department political appointee tried to interfere with Trump's tax auditThe Manhattan district attorney's subpoena was part of a broader investigation into whether the Trump Organization and Trump broke New York state laws when reimbursing Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen for hush-money payments made to women who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Ms. Tlaib's resolution outlines three areas of scrutiny for an impeachment inquiry: the president's possible violations of the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, which bans gifts or payments from foreign governments; his role in a pre-Election Day scheme to silence a pornographic film actress and a Playboy model who claimed to have had affairs with him; and the lingering questions around whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice.
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House Democrats will reportedly prioritize a congressional inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpJoe Biden's record – not his gaffes – is dooming his campaign Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively donate M to help migrant children, social justice MORE's alleged role in payments to silence two women who say they had affairs with Trump before he took office.
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In recent months, Dean has called for the impeachment of Trump, saying in December that he thinks Congress will have "little choice" but to begin impeachment proceedings against the President after a court filing said Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen acted at the direction of Trump when the former fixer made payments to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump prior to his time running for office.
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Trump said he would go on the attack against Clinton for her treatment of the women who have had affairs with Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE or have accused him of sexual assault; something Republicans have warned him not to do.
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Another top issue in this week's headlines was the Friday filing of a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer, on behalf of prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, who wrote that Cohen and the president were involved in an illegal hush money scheme during the later days of the 85033 election to pay off women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) expressed concerns about the prospect of the Trump administration dangling pardons to witnesses tied to either the Mueller investigation or the one by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which is probing payments made to two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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One Defense Department official suggested that Mr. Trump wanted to divert attention from his mounting legal troubles: the Russia investigation; the sentencing of his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in a hush money scandal to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with him; and his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who was harshly criticized by a federal judge for lying to investigators.
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As the Post reports, the FBI is trying to unravel the threads connecting Cohen with AMI, Pecker, and Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of the Enquirer: An FBI raid executed April 8 on Cohen's office and residences sought all of the lawyer's records of communications with AMI, Pecker and Howard regarding two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump while he was married, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
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According to Bezos, news of the investigation infuriated AMI chief David Pecker, whose close ties to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE have led to scrutiny over his role in the payments between Trump's team and multiple women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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The Department of Justice filing on Michael Cohen's guilty plea on bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations expands on details surrounding hush money payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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But those jabs carried extra weight in the wake of this week's conviction of the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort on charges of tax evasion in a case that grew out of the Mueller investigation — and the simultaneous guilty plea by Trump's former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on federal campaign finance violations in New York related to his payoffs to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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The FBI sought to get documents regarding payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in the bureau's raid of the office of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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Democrats are planning to widen their probe to look at other issues, including payments made by ex-Trump attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenSenior HUD official reprimanded for making political statements on the job New York attorneys subpoena eight years of Trump tax returns: report Eric Holder says Trump is subject to prosecution after leaving office MORE to women who claimed to have had affairs with the president before the 85033 presidential election.
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The process will have a significant effect on the case, shaping the contours of the evidence that the government can use in determining whether Mr. Cohen committed any crimes when, in the run-up to the 2016 elections, he sought to silence two women who say they had affairs with Mr. Trump: Stephanie Clifford, a former pornographic film star better known as Stormy Daniels, and Karen McDougal, a onetime model for Playboy.
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Here are the key takeaways about what the filings mean for Trump and the Mueller investigation going forward: Focus appears to increasingly be on Trump Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York said for the first time on Friday that Cohen acted "in coordination with and at the direction" of Trump when he organized payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, women who claimed that they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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The FBI raided his home, office and hotel room last month, in part following a referral from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE, reportedly seizing financial records, communications between Cohen and his clients and documents related to nondisclosure payments to two women — including adult-film star Stormy Daniels — who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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Hicks wasn't only asked about Mueller's report — she also fielded questions about former Trump attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE and the payments made to women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election, according to the transcript.
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And after they return to Washington on Monday, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are also eyeing hearings on Trump's alleged involvement in a 2016 scheme with his former attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenSenior HUD official reprimanded for making political statements on the job New York attorneys subpoena eight years of Trump tax returns: report Eric Holder says Trump is subject to prosecution after leaving office MORE to funnel money to two women who claimed they had affairs with him.
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Federal prosecutors in New York said Trump directed Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE, his former personal attorney, to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump to prevent negative information from surfacing that would hurt his chances in the 2016 election.
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The FBI raided his home, office and hotel room last month, in part following a referral from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE, reportedly seizing financial records, communications between Cohen and his clients and documents related to nondisclosure payments to two women — including adult-film star Stormy Daniels — who alleged they had affairs with Trump.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE reportedly asked former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker late last year whether the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a Trump ally, could take over the investigation into money paid to two women who alleged they had affairs with the president, among other subjects.
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The Judiciary Committee reportedly will focus on a wide range of topics, including four pillars: (1) involvement by Trump associates in Russian interference in the 2016 election, (2) Trump's alleged role in illegal hush money payments to two women who claim they had affairs with him, (3) Trump's alleged dangling of pardons to immigration officials who might break the law to get a border wall built and (4) Trump's potential Emoluments Clause violations and use of the presidency for personal profit.
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Federal prosecutors in New York have already said that Trump directed Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE, his former personal attorney, to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump to prevent negative information from surfacing that would hurt his chances in the 2016 election.
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Cohen, who is testifying on Capitol Hill this week, pleaded guilty last August to a series of federal crimes, including a campaign finance charge stemming from a scheme to pay off women who alleged they had affairs with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE before the 2016 election.
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Lanny Davis said in an interview that aired Monday on "Rising" that hush money payments made before the 22019 election to two women alleging to have had affairs with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE were similar to how Russia "corrupted the democratic" process through an election interference campaign.
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Cohen, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's former lawyer and "fixer," pleaded guilty earlier this week to bank and tax fraud as well as campaign finance violations related to his payment to Daniels and a former Playboy model who allege to have had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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In that time, the White House has been racked by a string of controversies, ranging from a senior official who resigned after his ex-wives accused him of abuse to allegations that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE had affairs with an adult-film star and a Playboy model.
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There was a news of a 2011 polygraph, a lawsuit filed and a lawsuit allowed to go forward in three distinct storylines tying the President to, alternately, the porn star Stormy Daniels and the Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom have said they had affairs with the President and both of whom are now trying to wriggle out of six-figure hush money agreements, and the "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos, who says Trump sexually harassed her and who is now suing him for defamation.
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In addition to examining episodes of possible obstruction laid out by Mueller, Nadler has announced that his committee will look into accusations that Trump violated campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women claiming they had affairs with him more than a decade ago; that he's profited from government trips in which administration officials used taxpayer dollars to stay at his family-owned properties; and that he's offered to pardon border officials if they broke the law to discourage an influx of Central American migrants.
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Democrats pushed for a delay over an admission from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, that the president was involved in a hush money scheme before the 2016 election aimed at buying the silence of two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
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The investigation — which was announced as Trump was already playing defense on former attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Hope Hicks defends accuracy of her congressional testimony MORE's public testimony — will focus on obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power and include looking into a scheme to pay off two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump before the 85033 presidential election.
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It's not clear how investigators will use Cohen's information — if at all — but, as the Times notes, the conversations are just a piece of the Southern District of New York's broader probe into the inaugural committee for everything from money laundering to political corruption: While it was not clear whether the prosecutors found Mr. Cohen's information credible ... the meeting suggests that they are interested in broader aspects of the Trump Organization, beyond their investigation into the company's role in the hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women claiming to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In the context of what Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Hope Hicks defends accuracy of her congressional testimony MORE, Trump's former lawyer, told Mueller and testified to Congress, the president wants Americans to know he made hush money payments that were routed indirectly to two women who said they had affairs with him, but he argues those payments were not violations of federal campaign finance laws (The Hill).
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At least one of the related probes has been known publicly for months and is viewed by many legal analysts as a significant legal threat to Trump once he leaves office: the ongoing investigation into campaign finance violations to which former Trump attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE pleaded guilty that stem from a scheme to pay off women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
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The New York district attorney's prosecutors interviewed Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenSenior HUD official reprimanded for making political statements on the job New York attorneys subpoena eight years of Trump tax returns: report Eric Holder says Trump is subject to prosecution after leaving office MORE, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE's former personal attorney, in recent weeks as part of a probe into how the Trump Organization handled hush money payments to women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs.
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CNN host Chris Cuomo and White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayIllinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Trump health chief: Officials actively 'working on' ObamaCare replacement plan Campaign aide: Trump asking questions shared by 'millions of Americans' with Epstein conspiracy theory MORE clashed in an interview Thursday night over whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE lied when he said he had no knowledge of hush-money payments made to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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HLN host S.E. Cupp called on first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE to leave President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE after he reportedly had affairs during their marriage Cupp wrote in an op-ed for the New York Daily News Tuesday that the first lady should leave Trump over the reported affairs, unlike Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, who remained with President Clinton after reports of his affairs emerged.
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