Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney and "fixer," made the payment to Daniels in the days before the 2016 election. Trump has denied having affairs with both women, and the company that paid the former doorman determined his story was false. They said the scheme involved three payments made by Trump allies to conceal damaging stories: $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman who said Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock $150,000 to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump and $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who also alleged an affair. In a 16-page indictment and accompanying statement of facts, prosecutors said Trump "orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant's electoral prospects." Former President Donald Trump sits with his attorneys inside the courtroom during his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023, in New York City. He has denied all wrongdoing and said District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, is motivated by politics in bringing the case.
In a historic, highly choreographed appearance that followed strict security protocols, Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges at a hearing in a lower Manhattan courtroom, becoming the first former president to face criminal prosecution. Former President Donald Trump was charged by a New York grand jury with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, with prosecutors detailing an alleged years-long scheme to use "hush money" payments to suppress damaging information before the 2016 election.
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