Analysis: The various coverups of Donald 'I don’t do coverups' Trump
President Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 22 at 2:53 PM President Trump showed up angry in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, an apparent continuation of his mood from the morning's activity on Twitter.
There was, you might recall, the matter of Karen McDougal, a Playboy model who alleges that she had a consensual affair with you in 2006. After David Pecker, the chief executive of American Media Inc., told your team in August 2015 that he would help bury negative stories , AMI paid McDougal to buy the rights to her story but never ran it. The August 2015 meeting might ring a bell, because Wall Street Journal reporting indicates that you attended it.
Those agreements could reasonably be described as coverups. In tweets about the Daniels agreement, you even noted that such agreements to stay silent were common for celebrities such as yourself. Among the efforts to impede the investigation were the Trump Jr. statement and other repeated directives that staffers not publicly disclose information about the Trump Tower meeting. After pressuring former White House counsel Donald McGahn to fire Mueller, you allegedly then tried to get McGahn to deny that you had done any such thing. And then, after the Mueller report documenting this incident came out, you reportedly asked McGahn again to defend you on this point.
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