In the days after Donald Trump’s campaign was rocked by the disclosure of lewd remarks he made about women on an “Access Hollywood” tape, his aides frantically worked to contain potentially damaging disclosures about two women who claimed to have affairs with him.
As that plan unfolded in the campaign’s closing days, Trump spoke several times by phone with attorney Michael Cohen, who later admitted to arranging an illegal hush-money payment that he said Trump directed, according to newly unsealed court documents. Cohen also communicated several times during that period with campaign press secretary Hope Hicks.
The documents, released Thursday, ...
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