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Public reporting identifies multiple women who have alleged affairs or sexual encounters with Donald Trump that became part of news coverage and legal cases; the most prominent alleged affairs during ...
Katie Johnson (a name widely reported as a pseudonym) publicly alleged in 2016 that she had been sexually assaulted as a minor at gatherings linked to Jeffrey Epstein and that Donald Trump was among t...
Donald Trump’s campaign era saw at least two paid nondisclosure agreements: and , both intended to suppress allegations before the 2016 election and arranged through intermediaries including Michael C...
Allegations that Donald Trump secretly fathered a child and that aides paid to bury the story first surfaced in reporting about the National Enquirer “catch-and-kill” operation and appear in a 2018 re...
Multiple court cases and prosecutions have centered on allegations that Donald Trump paid or arranged payments to silence women or otherwise resolve claims about sexual encounters; the most prominent ...
From 2016 through 2023 the dominant allegations tied to payoffs and potential campaign-finance misconduct around Donald J. Trump centered on a cluster of payments made in the run-up to the 2016 electi...
Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime “fixer,” who testified that Trump directed him to arrange hush‑money payments to women during the 2016 campaign and that Trump later reimb...
Prosecutors say two separate 2016-era efforts sought to suppress allegations about former President Donald Trump: Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 shortly before the election to keep her fro...
Prosecutors in the Manhattan “hush-money” case argued that Donald Trump directed a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, reimbursed later as part of $420,000 paid to Michael Cohen, and then caused 34 fa...
The 34 counts allege that Donald J. Trump and associates falsified New York business records to conceal reimbursements and other bookkeeping entries tied to hush-money payments and a broader “catch-an...
The primary claim is that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, led by , prosecuted Donald J. Trump on a 34-count indictment alleging falsification of business records tied to hush-money payments,...