Prosecutors detail Trump's alleged hush money 'scheme' to influence 2016 election
Former President Donald Trump engaged in a "scheme" to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a series of hush money payments made by others to help his campaign, and then "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records" to conceal that criminal conduct, Manhattan prosecutors alleged as part of their charges against the former president Tuesday.
A "statement of facts" accompanying the 34-count indictment alleges that Trump discussed the scheme while he was in the Oval Office and made reimbursement payments to his lawyer for a year while he was in office.
Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, entered a plea of not guilty to all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to one of those 2016 hush money payments.
Prosecutors said the efforts began in 2015 with an agreement with the CEO of National Enquirer publisher AMI to suppress damaging information, and included payments to two women who claimed to have had long-denied affairs with Trump, as well as a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child Trump had out of wedlock that was untrue.
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