Inside the Other Trump Hush Money Case

Former President Donald Trump has been haunted by a number of election-interference meetings in Trump Tower, but the one that poses the biggest threat to him today still hasn’t gotten much attention.

It’s not the meeting where Trump’s campaign manager, son-in-law, and oldest adult child met with a Russian offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. And it’s not the confab two months later between that same adult child—Donald Trump Jr.—and members of Middle East royalty, who were also offering election assistance.

This meeting came before all of that—in August 2015. The attendees were Trump, his self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen, and David Pecker—the CEO of American Media Inc., parent company of the National Enquirer. The subject: silencing women who wanted to go public with damaging stories about the candidate. And it wasn’t just Stormy Daniels under discussion.

Read more at The Daily Beast.