Having just experienced the fallout from the "Access Hollywood" tape, Donald Trump knew that having Stormy Daniels go public about an alleged sexual encounter would be ruinous for his White House aspirations, former fixer Michael Cohen testified Monday in the former president's Manhattan hush money trial.
Daniels, an adult film star, testified last week that she had sex with Trump in his hotel room at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. Cohen, working with then-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, had paid her $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about the alleged details of that encounter, which prosecutors say was intended to influence the election but was falsely reported as a legal expense.
