trump has denied these relationships. when the article was published, there was a lot of other news dominating the headlines. from the clinton email scandal to the now infamous access hollywood tape. grab them by the [ bleep ]. with daniels and mcdougal refusing to comment, the 2016 article got buried. but in january 2018, the same journal reporters broke another story about the alleged affairs. this time they revealed stormy daniels had been silenced just before the election by michael cohen. she signed a nondisclosure agreement at about the exact same time that the trump campaign was dealing with the fallout from that access hollywood tape. so michael showen sets up a shell company and the only purposes is to pay stormy daniels so she will not tell her story. she will not go public. he says without telling
investigation he uncovered some evidence of wrongdoing by michael cohen and referred it to the southern district of new york because it didn t seem to fall neatly within the investigation of russian interference. the week after the raid, the federal inquiry into cohen s business practices broadened when a judge ordered cohen to disclose his roster of recent clients. besides trump it turned out there were only two more, fox host sean hannity and a prominent trump doaner. elliott brody is a big california financier and it s been reported that michael cohen helped arrange another hush money payment in this case to a playboy playmate who said she got pregnant by elliott broadie. broadie agreed to pay the woman $1.6 million. it s very similar to the mcdougal and daniels cases are,
in. we don t know the details but if anyone does know that, it s allen. cohen s plea in court was a devastating blow to a president already beset with legal and political problems. and it s cig cal na cohen had given up his last best hope ov escaping his fate. a presidential pardon from trump. even if he did pardon cohen. that wouldn t make the problems go away. it might make them get worse. this is starting to look like a problem that can t be solved. i will tell you from my reporting. cohen doesn t expect to get a pardon. he kind of matter of factually said, i can do time. i pled guilty. he surpassed the ambitions of college years. not in the way he would have wanted. his name is forever tied to donald trump. no matter what happens. michael cohen will be part of american history.
avenatti s claim that the firm paid cohen $500,000 consultant fee funneled through the exact same shell company used to pay off stormy daniels. as the summer wore on, the growing sense of legal jeopardy seemed to take its toll. cohen s already strained relationship with president trump further deteriorated. the relationship soured i believe first over money. who was going to pay for the lawyers. there was another problem lumg. the feds had seized more than one million pieces of potential evidence from cohen including an audio tape of the president. once they started the document sharing process, and seeing what cohen had, including those tapes, there was a sense of this guy could bring us down. cohen began complaining to friends he felt abandoned by the man he worked so hard to defend. this is man who is increasingly angry and upset. and isolated.
things. he s got businesses. but i m not involved. in that civil litigation with stormy daniels, cohen and trump would later fold. withdrawing their part of the suit and saying they wouldn t enforce the mda. as michael cohen s problems multiplied, many wondered how long his self-professed loyalty to donald trump would even last. mr. president, could michael cohen flip? everybody flips. what is he afraid michael cohen could flip over. in the following weeks, president trump turned to rudy giuliani to defend him in the court of public opinion. but then giuliani appeared to contradict the president s own statements claiming he knew nothing about payments to stormy daniels in a may 2 interview with sean hannity. the president repaid him. i didn t know that. he did? yup. intentionally or not. giuliani confirmed what many had alleged michael cohen did pay hush money to stormy daniels, and the president was fully