Trump Tower doorman who claimed Donald Trump had a child out of wedlock was silenced with $30K hush money
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday, April 4, gave insight information on the reported ‘catch and kill’ scheme against Donald Trump. The accusation involves a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have information about a child Trump fathered out of his wedlock. As per the statement of facts filed in the court, Bragg’s office alleged that from August 2015, from the time after Trump publicly announced running for the 2016 office till December 2017, Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen orchestrated what is called a ‘catch and kill’ scheme.
It also involved David Pecker, the then-CEO of magazine publisher American Media Inc., to block negative stories against Trump. The court documents from earlier claimed that AMI paid former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin $30,000. The employee had detailed information about an affair that led to the birth of an unlawful child. The statement of facts presented in the court read, “In or about October or November 2015, the AMI CEO learned that a former Trump Tower doorman (the “doorman”) was trying to sell information regarding a child that the defendant had allegedly fathered out of wedlock.”
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'Doorman $30,000 to acquire exclusive rights to the story'
It further explained, “At the AMI CEO’s direction, AMI negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the doorman $30,000 to acquire exclusive rights to the story. When AMI later concluded that the story was not true, the AMI CEO wanted to release the doorman from the agreement. However, Lawyer A [Cohen] instructed the AMI CEO not to release the doorman until after the presidential election, and the AMI CEO complied with that instruction because of his agreement with the defendant and lawyer A,” per New York Post.
'This is all fake'
Moreover, the woman involved in the alleged claim by Bragg’s team denied having an affair, and told Associated Press, “This is all fake.” On contrary, the court filing read, “The defendant thanked the AMI CEO for handling the stories of the doorman and woman 1 [former Playboy model Karen McDougal], and invited the AMI CEO to the Inauguration. In the summer of 2017, the defendant invited the AMI CEO to the White House for dinner to thank him for his help during the campaign.”