TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As his fixer pleads guilty and the White House says President Donald Trump has not been implicated in any crime, the President can’t seem to keep his story straight about alleged hush payments. Trump’s story has continued to change as the President’s own words contradict claims he and his aides have made in relation to payments intended to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal over alleged affairs. The White House has denied both alleged affairs. The President said in a recent Fox News interview that he knew about the hush money payments ‘later on.’ That assertion is refuted, however, by an audio recording obtained by CNN that indicates that Trump had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to McDougal’s story. It is also at odds with an earlier denial from the President when he told reporters in April he did not know about a $130,000 payment to Daniels.”
–Clare Foran, “Trump’s story on hush money payments to silence women keeps changing,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 23, 2018 2:12 pm