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The Wall Street Journal reports:
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by a top Republican fundraiser, according to people familiar with the matter.
Michael Cohen, whose office, home and hotel room were raided by federal agents this week, arranged the payments to the woman on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee with ties to Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Broidy, a Los Angeles-based venture capitalist, works on the Republican committee with Mr. Cohen, who is also a national deputy finance chairman.
The deal, which hasn’t previously been reported, prohibits the Los Angeles woman from disclosing her alleged relationship with Mr. Broidy in exchange for $1.6 million to be paid to her over two years in quarterly installments, these people said. The first payment was due Dec. 1, according to one of the people.
The Broidy agreement uses the same pseudonyms for Mr. Broidy and the woman with whom he was allegedly involved—David Dennison and Peggy Peterson—as the earlier agreement used for Mr. Trump & Ms. Clifford, respectively. https://t.co/UrytapMQvO
— erica orden (@eorden) April 13, 2018
Michael Cohen arranged a $1.6 million hush payment to a Playboy model who says she was impregnated by Republican donor Elliott Broidy https://t.co/jusdHHEFFY
— Joe Palazzolo (@joe_palazzolo) April 13, 2018
WSJ SCOOP: Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser close to the president. https://t.co/MewFyocvRV @joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 13, 2018
Holy crap so here are the @GOP‘s current/recent finance team:
1) Serial sexual assaulter Steve Wynn
2) Elliott Broidy, under federal investigation, who paid off a model he got pregnant
3) Michael Cohen, who executed the above payoff as well as Trump’s Stormy Daniels hush money— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) April 13, 2018
Michael Cohen and Elliot Broidy both remain national deputy chairs of the RNC’s finance leadership team https://t.co/StWTeYYLyz
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 13, 2018
?Broidy: “I had a consensual relationship w/a Playboy Playmate. At the end of our relationship, this woman shared w/me that she was PREGNANT. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy & I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) April 13, 2018
Meaning: Broidy paid for her to have an ABORTION
?#Busted#Hypocritehttps://t.co/mDAMqyalcb
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) April 13, 2018
To recap: RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigned after sexual harassment allegations. RNC deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy paid a $1.6M settlement to a Playboy model he impregnated. RNC deputy finance chair Michael Cohen had his offices raided by the FBI. Paging @GOPChairwoman.
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 13, 2018