An Ex-Playboy Playmate just came forward to detail her affair with Trump and subsequent cover-up

President Trump’s extramarital affair with a Playboy Playmate just got exposed in a bombshell report by the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow about the cover-up that kept it under wraps during the election.

Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal allegedly dated Donald Trump for 9 months in 2006 and she kept handwritten notes about the experience. Trump was simultaneously cheating on his wife Melania with porn star Stormy Daniels, whose hush money payments are currently being investigated by the Federal Elections Commission.

Donald Trump’s best buddy David Pecker at the National Enquirer paid off McDougal during the election with a “catch and kill” agreement, but the former Playmate says he renigged on the deal, so she’s speaking out. Ronan Farrow writes:

Trump and McDougal began an affair, which McDougal later memorialized in an eight-page, handwritten document provided to The New Yorker by John Crawford, a friend of McDougal’s. When I showed McDougal the document, she expressed surprise that I had obtained it but confirmed that the handwriting was her own.

Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s confirmed handwritten notes about her affair with Donald Trump linked via The New Yorker

The interactions that McDougal outlines in the document share striking similarities with the stories of other women who claim to have had sexual relationships with Trump, or who have accused him of propositioning them for sex or sexually harassing them.

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McDougal’s handwritten notes even noted how carefully Trump hid his extramarital affairs.

But perversely, Donald Trump took pleasure in introducing his secret mistress to his own family, going so far as to take a Trump family photo at an event where McDougal was in work costume as a Playboy Bunny, without mentioning the affair.

The interactions that McDougal outlines in the document share striking similarities with the stories of other women who claim to have had sexual relationships with Trump, or who have accused him of propositioning them for sex or sexually harassing them.

During Trump’s relationship with McDougal, she wrote, he introduced her to members of his family and took her to his private residences. At a January, 2007, launch party in Los Angeles for Trump’s now-defunct liquor brand, Trump Vodka, McDougal, who was photographed entering the event, recalled sitting at a table with Kim Kardashian, Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Trump, Jr.,’s wife, Vanessa, who was pregnant. At one point, Trump held a party for “The Apprentice” at the Playboy Mansion, and McDougal worked as a costumed Playboy bunny. “We took pics together, alone + with his family,” McDougal wrote. She recalled that Trump said he had asked his son Eric “who he thought was the most beautiful girl here + Eric pointed me. Mr. T said ‘He has great taste’ + we laughed!”

Based on McDougal’s handwritten notes, Trump wasn’t afraid to get personal with the Playmate, or that Melania Trump might catch him in flagrante delicto with one of his lovers.

She even noted that back then, over a decade ago, Melania’s relations with Donald Trump were frosty enough to require a separate bedroom.

Trump gave McDougal tours of Trump Tower and his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. In Trump Tower, McDougal wrote, Trump pointed out Melania’s separate bedroom. He “said she liked her space,” McDougal wrote, “to read or be alone.”

McDougal’s handwritten notes linked via The New Yorker

Karen McDougal says that she was encouraged to speak out when other women came forward with their stories about Trump’s abuse, and the National Enquirer’s parent company came back looking to extend her contract pay her off to keep her from speaking, again.

Now, Trump just got caught covering up simultaneous affairs with large sums of dark money, either of which could be in violation of the FEC campaign laws.

While many have called Trump’s presidency “Stupid Watergate,” this report combined with yesterday’s revelations that there’s a dress with evidence, is threatening an outbreak of “Stupid Whitewater.”

Republican Congressmen wound up impeaching former President Clinton for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky – after years of fruitless Whitewater independent counsel investigating.

The Republican Party of family values has added yet another erotic new value to their list of acceptable presidential behavior.

But will GOP Congressman protect the institution of the presidency from being tarnished by its current Republican occupant today?

Doubtful.

Grant Stern

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