Prosecutors Tell One Final Story About Trump’s Sordid Dealings

After five weeks of combing through phone logs, contracts, invoices, checks, tweets, and text messages about Donald Trump and his band of women-silencing henchmen, Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday finally did what jurors have been waiting for: They told a story.

It was a tale of deception and intrigue, as assistant district attorney Joshua Steinglass spent hours describing exactly how his team thinks the former American president hid sexual affairs before the 2016 election by faking paperwork to cover up what they allege amounts to election interference.

By now, the jury was all too familiar with the dramatis personae: ex-Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels, who worked with publicist Gina Rodriguez, who shopped around sleazy stories with celebrity lawyer Keith Davidson, who cut dirt-disappearing deals with the likes of National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, who answered to his Trump-loving boss David Pecker, who maintained a backchannel to Trump consigliere Michael Cohen, who’d call Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller to reach the man at the top.

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