Donald Trump told his one-time fixer Michael Cohen to bury Stormy Daniels’s account of an alleged sexual liaison weeks before the election, demanding that he “just take care of it”, according to trial testimony in Manhattan court on Monday.
As he took the witness stand wearing a pale salmon tie, Cohen said he first met Trump through the former president’s son, Donald Jr, as he was moving into one of his properties, when the elder Trump asked him to fix an issue with the board at Trump World Tower. He explained how he extricated Trump from the controversial Trump University business courses by offering “approximately 50 vendors that had not been paid” a lesser amount, and claimed all but two accepted.
Cohen described his time at the Trump Organization in a wistful tone. “It was fantastic. Working for him , especially during those 10 years, was an amazing experience in many, many ways. There were great times, there were several less-than-great times, but for the most part, I enjoyed the responsibility that was given to me. I enjoyed working with my colleagues at the Trump Organization, the Trump children. It was a big family.
Cohen said he learned that in fall 2015, he had heard that a former Trump Tower doorman said Trump had a “love child” and Cohen wanted Trump’s direction on what he wanted done.To prevent it from going public, Cohen said he worked with Dylan Howard of the National Enquirer, and Pecker, and that Pecker was going to buy the life rights to the doorman’s story for $30,000 “to take it off the market”.
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