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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…
The doorman's rumor remains unverified. But, @RonanFarrow writes: "legal experts said [the payment] is significant because it establishes the company’s pattern of buying and burying stories that could be damaging to Trump during the Presidential campaign"
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
From @DevlinBarrett & Co. on Tuesday, about the Michael Cohen raid: Feds sought info on payments to women, suggesting they're looking into "whether there was a broader pattern or strategy among Trump’s associates" to pay to silence damaging stories washingtonpost.com/politics/feder…
The former Trump Tower doorman paid $30K by the National Enquirer dismissed argument he made up his claims, telling @CarolLeonnig he took a polygraph test and arguing his story was buried as part of the tabloid's efforts to squash bad Trump stories wapo.st/2qt5XZH
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