that the president of the united states directed him to carry out. it was picker and howard who paid off karen mcdougal to cover up her allegation of affair with then candidate trump and tipped off cohen when stormy daniels was preparing to going public with her allegation just before the election. allegedly, ami first made an arrangement with the president long before that. according to the charging documents all the way back in august 2015, at the being of the trump campaign in coordination with cohen and one or more members of the campaign, picker identified as chairman one, offered to help deal with negative stories about individual relationships with women by among other things assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased and publication avoided. individual 1 is, of course, donald j. trump. it was almost a full year before the deal we know about with karen mcdougal. and on the secret audiotape they refer to picker directly calling