They talked “right away on the phone… for about a week before next visit to ” ( CNN The New Yorker ). At the end of the night, Trump reportedly asked McDougal for her phone number. McDougal had been hired to work as an extra at a pool party scene. June 2006: Karen McDougal met Trump while The Celebrity Apprentice was being filmed at the Playboy mansion. You can do anything… Grab ’em by the pussy” ( NBC News ). And when you’re a star, they let you do it. Bush recorded Trump’s comments on a hot mic: “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women - I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Ģ005 : While in conversation with Billy Bush, an anchor at the time for Access Hollywood, Trump identified a “young woman through a bus window” and began making lewd, sexually aggressive remarks. Trump long before I started working for him in 2007”). AMI CEO David Pecker had a strong friendship with Trump throughout this period, attending Trump’s wedding to Melania in 2005 ( AP The Wall Street Journal The New Yorker see also Michael Cohen congressional testimony, “these catch and kill scenarios existed between David Pecker and Mr. (“AMI”) employees claim that the company and its publications routinely turned away stories and tips that could paint Donald Trump in a bad light. We will continue monitoring the Manhattan investigation as it unfolds and update this chronology accordingly.īeginning around 2004: Former American Media Inc. Many of the individuals involved have reportedly appeared before Bragg’s grand jury this year, as noted in the latter portion of the chronology. Key individuals include Trump’s former lawyer and personal “fixer,” Michael Cohen the former Chairman and CEO of American Media Inc., David Pecker the two women paid to remain silent, Stephanie Clifford (aka “Stormy Daniels”) and Karen McDougal. We rely upon court filings, contemporaneous media reports, and extracts from a Pulitzer Prize-winning team’s account of the events, The Fixers. As the case continues to unfold, we have updated our original chronology of events to reflect the new information released by the DA’s office, Trump’s attorneys, and related congressional actions. The commencement of the trial is currently set for March 25, 2024. The DA claims that in making these hush money payments, Trump violated New York state’s law prohibiting the falsification of business records and did so in furtherance of other crimes, including federal campaign finance law, state election law, and tax laws. At the center of the case is a catch and kill and “hush money” arrangement that former president Donald Trump, the head of the National Enquirer David Pecker, and the two men’s associates allegedly set up in the course of the presidential campaign to bury stories about Trump’s allegedly having had extramarital affairs ( Manhattan DA Indictment Press Release ). The historic indictment and statement of facts foregrounded the alleged effort to suppress information from reaching voters during the 2016 presidential election. On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. Originally published on Maupdated version published on May 24, 2023. Part of Just Security’s work on accountability and election law. Eisen, McKenzie Carrier, Vicka Heidt, Greg Phea and Madison Gee
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