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As the first ex-president in US history, Donald Trump (76) had to answer to a criminal case on Tuesday. Trump was charged with 34 counts of first-degree forgery of business documents. Initially, the indictment centered on a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels (44). However, the indictment published Tuesday now reveals further payments Trump is accused of making.
The Republican is said to have paid a former Trump Tower bouncer $30,000 for his silence about Trump’s possible illegitimate child. This is reported by “The New Republic” and other American media, among others.
“In one case, American Media Inc. paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower bouncer who claimed to have a story about Trump’s illegitimate child,” Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday. American Media Inc. is an American publishing company that published the National Enquirer tabloid at the time.
As “The New Yorker” first reported at the time, the bouncer was Dino Sajudin. His claims of receiving $30,000 from Trump were later corroborated in whole or in part by the Associated Press and the Washington Post.
According to Sajudin, Trump may have fathered a child out of wedlock with a former Trump Tower aide in the late 1980s. After Sajudin reportedly passed a polygraph test, American Media, whose president was a close friend of Trump, eventually paid him $30,000 for the exclusive rights to his report — and his silence.
As “CBS News” reports, the company even signed a contract with the bouncer. It stated that Sajudin had “permanently” given the company the rights to the story. If he leaks the story to anyone, he could be fined $1 million.
While the payment has been confirmed by other media outlets and is now confirmed in the prosecution’s statement, there is no confirmation of the affair or whether a child resulted.
The housekeeper in question has consistently denied all allegations of an affair with the former US president. “It’s all made up,” she told the Associated Press.
Whether this illegitimate child actually exists and with whom Trump would have had the affair is unclear. What is certain is that the new revelations fit the prosecution’s assessment that Trump has been systematically seeking to obtain negative information about himself, to suppress it with money and thus improve his chances in the 2016 presidential election. (dzc)
Source: Blick
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