Trump himself is not charged with a crime, and the indictment contains no references to hush money payments. Vance's office indicts the Trump Organization and its top financial executive on tax fraud charges. President Donald Trump speaks during the first rally for his re-election campaign at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2023. Trump, on Twitter, calls the hush money payments a "simple private transaction." In an interview with Reuters, he says the payment to Daniels "wasn't a campaign contribution" and "there was no violation based on what we did." AUGUST 2019Ĭyrus Vance, the Manhattan District Attorney at the time, issues a subpoena to the Trump Organization - Trump's family real estate company - for records of hush money payments.įormer U.S. Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan at the time, later confirmed that Trump was Individual-1. In their indictment of Cohen, prosecutors say a candidate for federal office referred to as "Individual-1" arranged the payments. He testified that Trump directed him to make the payments "for the principal purpose of influencing the election." Trump denies wrongdoing and calls Cohen's tape " perhaps illegal." AUGUST 2018Ĭohen pleads guilty to criminal charges in Manhattan federal court, including campaign finance violations over the hush money payments. Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's personal lawyers at the time, says Cohen recorded a conversation with Trump two months before the 2016 election in which the two discussed a potential payment to McDougal. In an ethics disclosure, Trump acknowledges reimbursing Cohen for the $130,000 paid for Daniels. Trump, when asked by reporters if he knew about the payment to Daniels, responded, "No." Asked why Cohen made the payment, Trump said, "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen." The National Enquirer never published the story. The magazine said American Media Inc, publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, paid McDougal $150,000 shortly after Trump became the Republican nominee for president in 2016 for exclusive rights to her story.
The New Yorker magazine reports that Trump had an affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal from 2006 to 2007. He said Trump never reimbursed him for the payment.Ĭohen would later contradict both statements under oath, stating Trump did in fact direct him to make the payment and reimbursed him. Michael Cohen, a former private lawyer and fixer for Trump, says he paid Daniels using his own money and was not directed by Trump's company or campaign to make the payment. Trump has consistently denied having an affair with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to prevent her from discussing a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006. president to face criminal charges.īelow is a timeline of events leading up to the charges: JANUARY 2018 April 4 (Reuters) - Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney's office following an investigation related to hush money payments to a porn star who has said she had a sexual relationship with him, a law enforcement source said, becoming the first former U.S.
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