While President Trump publicly fought with women leading up the the 2016 election, in private he directed schemes to silence their stories of two alleged affairs. Authorities are trying to determine whether the publisher and Mr. Trump’s team violated campaign-finance laws. Donald Trump’s self-described “fixer” and personal attorney, Michael Cohen, brooded about failing to get a White House post. President Donald Trump’s lawyer used a private Delaware company to pay a former adult-film star $130,000 in return for her agreeing to not publicly discuss an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. The moment Mr. Cohen stood up in court, he opened a new legal front for Mr. Trump that is fraught with peril.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 20, 2018 23:44 UTC