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    New Documents Reveal How Trump, Cohen, Aides Worked To Seal Hush Money Deals

    Official records describe Trump's direct involvement with negotiations that led to a $130,000 payment to an adult film star to buy her silence about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump.
    by Ryan Lucas Jul 18, 2019 3 minutes

    Updated at 3:14 p.m. ET

    Donald Trump took part in phone calls with his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen as the attorney and other aides scrambled to arrange hush payments to a woman in 2016 to buy her silence about an alleged sexual relationship with Trump.

    Those details come from hundreds of pages of court papers — warrant applications, affidavits and other related materials — made public on Thursday.

    Federal Judge William Pauley of the Southern District of New York ordered the documents unsealed after prosecutors

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