The lawyer who negotiated a hush money deal to prevent a Playboy model's alleged affair with Donald Trump from going public reacted with shock to the former president's victory in 2016, according to text messages revealed Thursday.
Keith Davidson, a former attorney for Karen McDougal, was testifying in Trump's Manhattan criminal trial when prosecutors introduced as evidence text messages he sent to Dylan Howard, then the editor in chief of the National Enquirer. The tabloid had agreed to pay $150,000 for the rights to McDougal's story, which it buried as part of an effort to assist Trump's campaign, according to testimony from former publisher David Pecker.
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