Trump's attorney recently argued the hush money payment to Daniels was 'not directly related to the campaign.'
Just weeks before the 2016 contest, Trump's then-attorney Michael Cohen negotiated a deal to pay that adult film star, Stormy Daniels, for her silence about her alleged affair with the married Trump years earlier. Trump has denied having sex with Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford.
Emails and text messages between the attorneys for Trump and Daniels, as well as the editor in chief of the National Enquirer's publisher, reflect that Cohen "attempted to delay making payment as long as possible," according to Bragg. The alleged scheme to conceal payments from the public "violated New York election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means," the DA said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.
"He made this with personal funds to prevent something coming out, false, but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son," Tacopina said. "That's not a campaign finance violation. Not by any stretch."Bragg's statement of facts did not include copies of the emails and texts he cited as evidence. But the DA's allegation aligns with a long list of accusers who have publicly claimed that Trump stiffed them for their work.
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