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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Bowden

Doorman’s claim of secret Trump child included in ex-president’s indictment

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A previously unknown victim of Donald Trump and the National Enquirer’s so-called “catch-and-kill” campaign was revealed on Tuesday with the official release of the former president’s indictment.

According to prosecutors in the documents released on Tuesday, Mr Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen directed the head of American Media Inc, the Enquirer’s parent company, to purchase the rights to a story being spread by a doorman at Trump Tower who was claiming to have knowledge of an out-of-wedlock child supposedly fathered by Mr Trump.

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