With the prosecution and the defense having made their closing arguments, jury deliberations in former President Donald Trump's hush money/falsified business records case are set to begin on Wednesday, May 29.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, during the trial, testified that she had sex with Trump in 2006. And during his testimony, Michael Cohen — Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and another one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s star witnesses — detailed his role in hush money payments to Daniels a decade later.
Trump has not only denied authorizing any hush money payments — he has denied ever having sex with her.
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But according to the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, a celebrity athlete interviewed by the publication vividly recalls Trump bragging about that sexual encounter in 2006 during a golf tournament.
Sollenberger reports, "The athlete also told The Daily Beast that a decade later, in the run-up to the 2016 election, he received anonymous calls from strangers asking what he remembered of the weekend…. The celebrity athlete, who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity, citing fear of harassment or retaliation, said he was close to Trump and Daniels while they socialized at the 2006 American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe."
Trump is an avid golf player.
The athlete told the Beast, "It was clear to me and everyone who heard him that he was talking about Stormy…. He'd say all these things like, 'You've gotta bang a porn star, it’s incredible,' and, 'It added 20 yards to my drive today.'"
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University of Michigan law professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade gave the Beast some legal analysis of the athlete's allegations.
McQuade, a frequent guest on MSNBC, told the Beast, "It is a bit of a side issue, really. What matters is that business records were falsified within intent to conceal an undisclosed campaign contribution."
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Read Roger Sollenberger's full report for the Daily Beast at this link (subscription required).
