Trump Reportedly Wanted to Purchase, Bury Decades of Dirty Secrets National Enquirer Kept on Him
There’s been a lot of commotion lately about the three-way dynamic between Donald Trump, Michael Cohen and the National Enquirer, and a new report suggests that the president planned on suppressing decades worth of secrets that the tabloid knew about him before the 2016 election.
According to New York Times, Trump and Cohen came up with a plan to buy all the dirt that the tabloid and American Media Inc. collected on him since the 1980s. This comes after the flurry of news regarding how Cohen secretly recorded his boss talking to him about the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal hush money schemes, and also the fact that Cohen has implicated his boss as being directly involved in his campaign finance lawbreaking.
From the report:
The existence of the plan, which was never finalized, has not been reported before. But it was strongly hinted at in a recording that Mr. Cohen’s lawyer released last month of a conversation about payoffs that Mr. Cohen had with Mr. Trump.
“It’s all the stuff — all the stuff, because you never know,” Mr. Cohen said on the recording.
The move by Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen indicated just how concerned they were about all the information amassed by the company, American Media, and its chairman, David Pecker, a loyal Trump ally of two decades who has cooperated with investigators.
Previous reports suggested that the Enquirer had a safe full of damaging stories and hush money information that they suppressed on Trump’s behalf over the years. It’s not clear whether federal prosecutors have seen this alleged dirt, but it could become a subject of intrigue in the coming days since Enquirer chief and longtime Trump pal David Pecker has been granted immunity as he cooperates with authorities investigating Cohen.
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