Trump is impeached is paying Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 to keep quiet about the couple’s alleged extramarital affair.
Five months before the 2016 presidential election, American Media Inc, the publisher of the National Enquirer, paid McDougal, 53, $150,000 in exchange for her telling the full story. The interview was never published.
The alleged affair became public knowledge in a subsequent interview McDougal did with The Wall Street Journal in 2016.
Trump denies McDougal’s claims. Her payment is not the subject of a criminal investigation, but prosecutors say it will establish a pattern of behavior on Trump’s part, something Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche tried to argue against.
Judge Merchan said the jury did not need to hear about the timing of the alleged McDougal affair, which according to the previous model was taking place at the time Melania Trump was pregnant with Barron Trump.
