Fox News killed Stormy Daniels hush money report before 2016 election: New Yorker
Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News killed a report prior to the 2016 US presidential election revealing that Donald Trump engaged in an affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels years ago, according to a report.
The New Yorker reported on Monday that former FoxNews.com reporter Diana Falzone "had obtained proof" of the alleged sexual affair and got it confirmed with several key sources, including Daniels and her former husband.
The reporter had also obtained emails exchanged between Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Daniels’s attorney that showed that Cohen had offered to pay money to the port star in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement.
'Murdoch wanted Donald Trump to win'
But then Fox News executive Ken LaCorte refused to publish the port, telling Falzone to "let it go."
“Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go," LaCorte reportedly said.
According to the New Yorker, one of Falzone’s colleagues confirmed having heard the account.
In an interview with CBS News last year, Daniels said she was threatened to keep silent about her encounter with Trump in 2006.
Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford said Trump had not asked her to keep their affair secret, but said she was approached by a man in a parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada, after agreeing to sell her story for $15,000 in 2011.
“I was in a parking lot…and a guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,’” Daniels said. “And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’”
“I was concerned for my family and their safety,” she said. "I was rattled, I remember going into the workout class and my hands were shaking so much I was afraid I was gonna drop her," she said of her daughter.
Daniels said she was introduced to Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. The real estate mogul invited her to his hotel suite, the only time they had a sexual encounter.
The White House has denied any sexual encounter between the president and Daniels.
Trump's lawyer had arranged a $130,000 payment to her a month before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual encounter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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