NEW: Feds unseal hundreds of documents showing how Michael Cohen silenced Trump’s alleged mistresses
Michael Cohen bought the silence of Stormy Daniels after a flurry of phone calls with Donald Trump, Hope Hicks, and executives at AMI in the heat of the 2016 election, according to newly unsealed FBI documents.
The Daniels’ scheme began in October 2016 when her attorney, Keith Davidson, contacted Cohen and AMI about her allegations of an affair with Trump. It came during a decisive time for Trump’s candidacy. The House Judiciary Committee is reportedly investigating whether Hicks lied during testimony last month where she said she was “never present” when Cohen and Trump discussed Daniels and had “no knowledge” of Daniels during the campaign.After a short call between Cohen and Hicks, Cohen phoned AMI chairman David Pecker, a long-time friend of Trump and owner of the National Enquirer. Cohen spoke to Hicks again, then called Dylan Howard, AMI’s AMI chief content officer and Pecker’s lieutenant.
Trump subsequently recovered from the Access Hollywood damage and won the presidency without the public having heard from Daniels or McDougal, who Davidson also represented. Cohen quizzed Howard how the Journal could run its article if “everyone denies.” Howard replied: “Because there is the payment from AMI. It looks suspicious at best.”
Cohen said in his guilty plea that he paid the hush money “in coordination and at the direction of Individual-1,” who is Trump. In subsequent testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Cohen produced checks from the Trump Organization signed by Trump in August 2017—while he was in the White House—to reimburse Cohen for the payments.
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