of the "national enquirer." she received $150,000 owned by trump friend david pecker to keep quiet about her alleged affair with trump. two months later, october 7th, americans heard the "access hollywood" tape in which mr. trump brags about assaulting women. later that month on the 27th, michael cohen paid adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep her affair with the presidential candidate quiet. the next day daniels siengned a nda covering the affair and the payment. 11 days after that donald trump was elected president of the united states. he created fake invoices, the same day the president asked james comey to let the flynn matter go. on april 5th of this year the president told reporters he didn't know about the payments cohen arranged. a month later on may 3rd, he finally acknowledged he did know