Karen McDougal, the Playboy model threatening to open a second case against Trump alongside porn actress Stormy Daniels
The porn actress Stormy Daniels has brought Donald Trump to the dock, but a second woman now crosses the horizon of the former US president and could widen the criminal case against him being investigated by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
It involves Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who also claims to have maintained an extramarital affair with Trump between 2006 and 2007. As in the Stormy Daniels case, prosecutor Bragg is investigating an alleged bribe by the New York tycoon to this model to prevent her from revealing the affair love affair in the media.
The Manhattan Grand Jury that voted Thursday to indict Trump for the alleged bribery of Daniels also heard testimony from two witnesses who provided facts about this alleged bribe to McDougal.two cases that have many similarities.
According to the Wall Street JournalMcDougal, who was playmate of the year in 1998, sold the exclusive on her affair with Trump to the tabloid The National Enquirer for $150,000 in 2016, during the election campaign that brought the Republican to the White House.
However, the tabloid never published this information because there was an agreement between Trump and the tabloid’s parent company, American Media Inc. whose former chairman David Pecker was a personal friend of Trump.
During the Stormy Daniels trial, which in 2018 would eventually lead to the imprisonment of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, the alleged bribery of McDougal was already investigated. Then, to avoid prosecution, American Media Inc. cooperated with the prosecution and admitted to To having made the $150,000 payment to McDougal. in collaboration with members of Trump’s election campaign to prevent that affair affair came to light. In other words, he admitted that he bought the story in order to ‘hijack’ it journalistically and prevent its publication.
However, the case did not come to directly splash Trump because his lawyer Cohen acted as a firewall by pleading guilty. and entering prison in 2019. But this former collaborator of the former US president soon turned against him and aired the dirty laundry of the former tenant of the White House between 2017 and 2021.
In fact, Cohen is now one of the main witnesses in the investigation of the prosecutor Bragg which has triggered the indictment of Trump. by the Manhattan Grand Jury for the alleged bribery of Stormy Daniels.
Trump has been indicted for allegedly paying $130,000 to porn actress to buy her silence and prevent him from revealing his affair in the press during the 2016 election campaign, a case almost identical to McDougal’s, whose silence cost him $150,000 and could now widen the case against him.
