The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow has a wild report that involves hush money, the National Enquirer, our magnanimous president, an affair, and a possible child from said affair. I feel tired, personally!
Here’s how the tale begins:
Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. A few weeks earlier, Sajudin had signed a contract with A.M.I., agreeing to become a source and to accept thirty thousand dollars for exclusive rights to information he had been told: that Donald Trump, who had launched his Presidential campaign five months earlier, may have fathered a child with a former employee in the late nineteen-eighties. Sajudin declined to comment for this story. However, six current and former A.M.I. employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared legal retaliation by the company, said that Sajudin had told A.M.I. the names of the alleged mistress and child. Reporters at A.M.I. had spent weeks investigating the allegations, and Sajudin had passed a lie-detector test, during which he testified that high-level Trump employees, including Trump’s head of security, Matthew Calamari, had told him the story.
Trump was married during the years of the alleged affair. Ultimately, the New Yorker was unable to confirm the rumor—the mother and the child refused to speak to Farrow, while the Trump Organization denied the entire report and the child’s family called Sajudin’s account “completely false and ridiculous.”