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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump and Michael Cohen met in White House Oval Office to discuss hush payments that led to his arrest

AP

Roughly one month after Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, the sitting president orchestrated secret cover-up payments with his attorney from inside the Oval Office, according to Manhattan prosecutors.

The alleged meeting between Mr Trump and his now-former attorney Michael Cohen was to confirm so-called hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a scene described by Cohen during his congressional testimony in 2019.

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