# In other hush money news (Trump accused of covering up illegitimate child) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267 "2023-04-06T18:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/1 "2023-04-06T18:33:31Z")
[PAB](https://youtu.be/gbCHTc89q9A?t=286)’s lovechild with his housekeeper pays him to keep her parentage a secret. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/2 "2023-04-06T18:35:18Z")
Can you please say who PAB is for those of us that don’t every acronym? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/3 "2023-04-06T18:36:35Z")
It’s Pussy Ass Bitch or some such thing. I heard it at a congressional hearing. It’s trump. But I would like a link or something. I have no knowledge of a love child. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/4 "2023-04-06T18:39:15Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > PAB’s lovechild with his housekeeper pays him to keep her parentage a secret. Wait, who pays whom? I lost track of the pronouns here. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/5 "2023-04-06T18:42:21Z")
It’s apparently not a new story, but came back up in this week’s indictment. A former doorman at Trump Tower claimed that Trump had a baby with an employee (a housekeeper) in the 1980s. The doorman said that he approached AMI (which publishes the National Enquirer) with the information in 2015, and claimed that he was paid $30,000 for exclusive rights to the story, which was then buried. The second article below (from this week) includes this passage from the indictment statement: > [@](#): > > When AMI later concluded that the story was not true, the AMI CEO wanted to release the Doorman from the agreement. However, Lawyer A instructed the AMI CEO not to release the Doorman until after the presidential election, and the AMI CEO complied with that instruction because of his agreement with the Defendant and Lawyer A. So, as I read it: - Doorman tries to sell a salacious story about Trump to the Enquirer, when Trump is running for president in 2015 - Enquirer buys exclusive rights to the story, to quash it (much like what they did with Karen McDougal) - Some investigation by the Enquirer leads them to decide that the story likely isn’t true, but they decide to keep it hushed until after the election, anyway > **[The Donald Trump "love child" payoff scandal, explained](https://www.vox.com/2018/4/12/17230498/donald-trump-national-enquirer-child-30000-doorman-joe-mika-payoff-hush-money-scandal-housekeeper)** > > A doorman claims Trump had a child out of wedlock with his housekeeper — and the National Enquirer paid him $30,000 to shut up. > **[Surprise! Doorman’s Trump Love-Child Story Is Back](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/trump-doormans-love-child-story-cited-in-trump-indictment.html)** > > If you forgot about the doorman’s wild yet unsubstantiated claim until it showed up in Trump’s hush-money indictment, you’re not alone. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/6 "2023-04-06T18:54:31Z")
I want to hear about the Boeing Air Force One deal that got renegotiated and then Boeing got a sweet deal order from Saudi Arabia . That will be news. (just an example , but I think happened in some form) He has been extorting contractors for years. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-hush-money-news-trump-accused-of-covering-up-illegitimate-child/982267/7 "2023-04-06T21:28:15Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s apparently not a new story, but came back up in this week’s indictment. A former doorman at Trump Tower claimed that Trump had a baby with an employee (a housekeeper) in the 1980s. The doorman said that he approached AMI (which publishes the National Enquirer) with the information in 2015, and claimed that he was paid $30,000 for exclusive rights to the story, which was then buried. \Now we’ve got him! His supporters will never countenance this degree of moral turpitude and payola to cover up his misdeed! Put him on a spit and fire up the grill! There is no way he can weasel his way out this time!\ Stranger