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I don't know how much this media is reliable.
However, getting into the weird, seems endless...
By Ronan Farrow3:19 A.M.
14-18 minutes
How the media organization protected the Presidential candidate early in his campaign.
David Pecker, the chairman and C.E.O. of A.M.I., has spoken publicly about his friendship with President Trump.
Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania. A few weeks earlier, Sajudin had signed a contract with A.M.I., agreeing to become a source and to accept thirty thousand dollars for exclusive rights to information he had been told: that Donald Trump, who had launched his Presidential campaign five months earlier, may have fathered a child with a former employee in the late nineteen-eighties. Sajudin declined to comment for this story. However, six current and former A.M.I. employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared legal retaliation by the company, said that Sajudin had told A.M.I. the names of the alleged mistress and child. Reporters at A.M.I. had spent weeks investigating the allegations, and Sajudin had passed a lie-detector test, during which he testified that high-level Trump employees, including Trumps head of security, Matthew Calamari, had told him the story.
The New Yorker has uncovered no evidence that Trump fathered the child. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization denied the allegations, including the assertion that Calamari told Sajudin the story. When I reached out to the alleged daughter, she declined through a representative of her employer to answer questions. Her mother did not respond to repeated requests for comment. I spoke with the father of the family, who said that Sajudins claim was completely false and ridiculous and added that the Enquirer had put the family in a difficult situation. I dont understand what they had to pay this guy for, he said. The New Yorker is not disclosing the family members names, out of respect for their privacy. Regardless of the veracity of Sajudins claims, legal experts said that A.M.I.s payment to Sajudin is significant because it establishes the companys pattern of buying and burying stories that could be damaging to Trump during the Presidential campaign.
Sajudin met the A.M.I. reporter at the McDonalds that winter night to sign an amendment finalizing the transaction and adding a million-dollar penalty if the ex-doorman were to disclose the information without A.M.I.s permission. According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, the two of them signed the amendmentan unexecuted copy of which was obtained by The New Yorkerand Sajudin remarked that it was going to be a very merry Christmas. Shortly after the company paid Sajudin, the chairman and C.E.O. of A.M.I., David Pecker, who has spoken publicly about his friendship with Trump, ordered the A.M.I. reporters to stop investigating, the sources told me. One of the employees involved said, Theres no question it was done as a favor to continue to protect Trump from these potential secrets. Thats black-and-white.
A.M.I.s thirty-thousand-dollar payment to Sajudin appears to be the third instance of Trump associates paying to suppress embarrassing stories about the candidate during the 2016 Presidential race. In August, 2016, A.M.I. paid Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for her story about a nine-month affair with Trump, and then never published an article about it. (A.M.I. said her story was not credible.) In October, 2016, Trumps personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid Stephanie Clifford, an adult-film actress who performs under the name Stormy Daniels, a hundred and thirty thousand dollars to keep her account of an affair with Trump secret. (Cliffords agreement was distinct from McDougals in that it was arranged directly with Cohen. A.M.I. was not party to the contracts between Cohen and Clifford that have been released.)
Two of the former A.M.I. employees said they believed that Cohen was in close contact with A.M.I. executives while the companys reporters were looking into Sajudins story, as Cohen had been during other investigations related to Trump. Cohen was kept up to date on a regular basis, one source said. Contacted by telephone on Wednesday, Cohen said that he was not available to talk. Subsequent efforts to reach him were unsuccessful. On Monday, F.B.I. agents raided Cohens hotel and office. The Times reported that the agents were looking for records related to the payments to McDougal and Clifford, as well as correspondence between Cohen, Pecker, and Dylan Howard, A.M.I.s chief content officer.
The White House declined to comment. A source close to the White House said that Trump did not have an affair. This is a totally false accusation. And Id refer you to A.M.I.
Texts and e-mails from November of 2015 show that, before reporting was halted, the National Enquirer team was pursuing leads and trying to confirm Sajudins story. Reporters had staked out the homes of the alleged mother and daughter. The company had also hired an outside private investigator named Michael Mancuso, a former criminal investigator and the owner of Searching for the Truth Investigative Services, who administered the lie-detector test. (Mancuso declined a request for comment.) Lie-detector tests are notoriously flawed, and the test assessed only whether Sajudin had heard the story, not whether there was truth to the underlying claim.
The rest here :
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-national-enquirer-a-donald-trump-rumor-and-another-secret-payment-to-buy-silence-dino-sajudin-david-pecker
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I guess time will tell on this one. I am amazed one guy can create all of this chaos, mess and destruction. It is mind boggling! Anyone still backing and supporting this creep, after all of THIS, is no better than he is AND that supporter is also completely insane.
syringis
(5,101 posts)I gave up trying to figure out when these revelations will come to an end.
Each new one is more disgusting than the previous. ! Every morning, after I have read the news, I feel like a took a 2nd shower. A shower of manure....
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Everyday there is more added to his PILE! I don't think there are enough showers to wash away his chaos. There will eventually be an end to his insanity and we'll all look forward to that day! Keep those great OPs coming!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)much they paid the mother of the child? I hope the child was fortunate enough to look like her mother (no matter HOW she looks) rather than another ugly mouthed tRump kid. What a sleazy excuse for a human being the gop/Russians installed into the WH.
Mike Nelson
(9,950 posts)...a surprise. Both Stormy and Karen have stated Crooked Donald favors "unprotected" sex. So we know he's not "prolific" in conception... but, still, there are going to be many opportunities for conception.
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)Sorry, I thought that was where you were going with that
kentuck
(111,072 posts)"No more potatoes, please."
Farmer-Rick
(10,151 posts)And Trump claimed STDs were his own Vietnam, I suspected there were several little Trumpstes out there, along with some women who he infected.
I feel sorry for the children's mothers. Knowing Trump, some of those relationships were not consentual. Now that he's really old he will be creating children with genetic and psychological problems.