Trump Doorman Got Payoff To Keep Quiet About Love-Child Rumor: Report
More evidence that Trump world engaged in hush agreement payoffs during the campaign.
Multiple news outlets have now confirmed that a former doorman at a Trump property in New York received a payoff during the campaign to keep quiet about rumors about Donald Trump’s sex life, including a rumored love child.
The payoff agreement was brokered with the National Enquirer in late 2015 which bought the rights to a story that Trump fathered a child with an employee in the 1980s.
The National Enquirer never ran the story which builds on the evidence that the gossip publication violated campaign finance laws by paying off people and killing stories that would be damaging to Trump during the campaign.
The Enquirer did the same thing with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, who was paid $150,000 by the publication for the rights to her story but never published the story about her affair with Trump.
The story about doorman Dino Sajudin was reported by Associated Press, The New Yorker and The Washington Post Wednesday.
Both publications note they found no evidence to support the rumor.
However, the episode provides additional evidence that the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., engaged in a pattern of buying and then burying stories that could be damaging to Trump during his presidential campaign.
Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for the rights “in perpetuity” to the rumor he’d heard about Trump’s sex life.
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