The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website March 26, 2018:
As the many Russia investigations continue, President Trump has gathered a group of lawyers to represent him, from within the White House and outside it. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Four days before the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal published an article that fit neatly into the shocking-but-not-surprising spirit of the last month of the campaign.
The National Enquirer, it reported, had paid $150,000 to former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal in the months before the election for the rights to her story about an affair she had with Donald Trump. But the Enquirer never planned to run her story, the Journal alleged. David Pecker, the chief executive of American Media Inc. (the Enquirer’s parent company), simply wanted to lock up McDougal’s story so it wouldn’t emerge before voting was done. Continue reading “There are now multiple legal questions surrounding attempts to hide alleged Trump relationships”