Former US President Donald Trump has been slapped with a total of 34 felony charges, according to the unsealed indictment released on Tuesday. The charges are related to hush money payments made during his presidency.
The document, obtained by CNN, reveals that Trump allegedly accepted at least $130,000 from lawyer Michael Cohen for two payments, one in August 2017 and another in October of the same year, to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with him.
Cohen was ordered by Trump to pay the hush money as part of a deal with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, but allegedly made the payments himself.
According to the indictment, Cohen also used $100,000 from Trump's charity foundation, known as the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and up to $150,000 in his own funds for the hush money payments.
The charges were brought under New York state law and include counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
The document, obtained by CNN, reveals that Trump allegedly accepted at least $130,000 from lawyer Michael Cohen for two payments, one in August 2017 and another in October of the same year, to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with him.
Cohen was ordered by Trump to pay the hush money as part of a deal with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, but allegedly made the payments himself.
According to the indictment, Cohen also used $100,000 from Trump's charity foundation, known as the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and up to $150,000 in his own funds for the hush money payments.
The charges were brought under New York state law and include counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
34 felony charges from a former prez? How did this all go down? I need to see more about that $100k from Trump's foundation... is it true he didn't know Cohen was making the payments himself? And what's up with the hush money for Karen McDougal? Did she really want to keep quiet or was it just a way out? This feels like a whole lot of deep state drama 
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. And the part where he allegedly accepted that hush money from Cohen to silence these women is wild 
But I guess not in Trump's world 
. And what's with the Donald J. Trump Foundation getting involved? That's just too much drama 
. Anyway, I'm keeping an eye on this one and will be here for all the updates 
and using Trump's charity foundation funds too... just hoping the justice system gets a handle on this ASAP 
so we can move forward without all the drama 
just read about trump getting slapped with 34 felony charges and I'm like what's going on here? So apparently he paid $130k to keep quiet about some girlfriends, and it sounds super fishy 
that he had the lawyer Michael Cohen do it behind his back. And now we know that Cohen used funds from Trump's charity foundation too, which is just shady 
. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out!
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. And to think he was always whining about the "deep state" and how unfair it all was... turns out the law is just keeping up with you, buddy 
. I'm not saying Trump didn't know what was going down, but to use his own charity funds? That's some dark magic stuff 
. Anyway, justice is finally serving up a big ol' plate of consequences 
... about time, if you ask me