Attorney Keith Davidson testified Tuesday how he leveraged media relationships to shop salacious stories about Donald Trump from Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels -- both of whom received payments from allies of the GOP nominee during his 2016 campaign.
Stormy Daniels arrives at an event in Berlin, on Oct. 11, 2018. The porn actor received a $130,000 payment from Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen as part of his hush-money efforts.
The National Enquirer was initially cool to the story because Ms. McDougal “lacked documentary evidence of the interaction,” according to Mr. Davidson, but editor-in-chief Dylan Howard reached out again a month later to resume discussions in the heat of the 2016 campaign. Mr. Trump denies the claims by Ms. Daniels and Ms. McDougal and has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“We might consider something like that a reputational risk,” Mr. Farro said, adding later the bank might not have opened the account if it had known it was for a shell company that sends or receives money but doesn’t have an underlying business.
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