The National Enquirer paid $30K to a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed, during the presidential campaign, to have heard that Trump fathered a child with an employee in the 1980s - then never ran the story, @RonanFarrow reports newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The AP is reporting the same thing about a Trump Tower doorman paid by the National Enquirer for his silence - and says Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, acknowledged discussing the story with the tabloid apnews.com/f37ecfc4710b46…
.@RonanFarrow's story says 30 minutes after he asked Enquirer publisher AMI for comment, another of its publications - Radar - posted a story about the payment. That story said the Enquirer's investigation concluded that the doorman's story was false radaronline.com/exclusives/201…
It's Jones: Doug Jones wins the Alabama Senate seat, swept into office by massive turnout among African American voters to beat Trump's enthusiastically endorsed candidate. Jones will be Alabama's first Democratic Senator in 25 years. wapo.st/2Af6PVt
Another interesting note from the exit polls: More than half of Alabama voters said allegations of Moore's improper sexual behavior with teenagers were a minor factor or not a factor in how they voted