Trump trial: Porn star hush money reimbursements were made pursuant to agreement with Trump sons

Key Facts

• Trump is charged with falsifying business records to hide the reimbursement to Cohen, who paid Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election to bury her story of having a prior sexual tryst with Trump.
• You are the former president of the United States, and possibly the next president as well,” Judge Juan Merchan told Trump in Manhattan Supreme Court, where the former president is on trial in a criminal hush money case.
• The ultimatum came less than a week after the judge held Trump in contempt of court for nine violations of his gag order, which bars him from speaking about witnesses, jurors and other parties involved in the trial.
• Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images Hicks testified that while she was working in the Trump White House, Trump told her that Cohen had made the payment without Trump’s knowledge in order to protect him, and that he did it “out of the kindness of his own heart.”

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