[President Trump and accusations of sexual misconduct: The complete list]Daniels's story, however salacious, would have likely paled in comparison and merely reinforced the playboy image Trump once cultivated. Now, however, Daniels has become a bigger problem than Trump or the lawyer who arranged the payoff, Michael Cohen, could have foreseen. And Trump may have facilitated the warrant needed to execute the raid by publicly denying any knowledge of the payment to Daniels. If Trump was unaware of the payment, then there wouldn't be any privileged communications between him and Cohen, related to Daniels, right? If Trump and Cohen participated in Giulani's exercise, and imagined that Daniels had gone public in October 2016, they might have wished she had.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2018 17:15 UTC