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  • 2020-01-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Pay 8 Women to Have Abortions? (en)
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  • Rumors have circulated for years to the effect that U.S. President Donald Trump has paid off multiple sexual partners to undergo abortions after he impregnated them, and to sign nondisclosure agreements precluding them from discussing their involvement with him. One common form of this rumor holds that Trump may have paid as many as eight different women to undergo abortions. Critics of Trump are inclined to believe such rumors because: 1) Two women -- Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal -- have publicly asserted that they were paid hush money to keep quiet about their sexual encounters with Trump: 2) Both women alleged that Trump eschewed the use of condoms during the sexual encounters they each had with him in 2006: 3) During a 2016 interview, Trump dodged answering a question about whether he had ever been involved with anyone who had an abortion: On the other hand, this rumor seems to be driven purely by speculation rather than by any hard evidence: 1) The origin of the claim about the supposed existence of up to eight Trump mistresses paid to have abortions and kept quiet with nondisclosure agreements appears to be a gossip blog item that attributed the information to nothing more specific than one source. 2) Neither Daniels nor McDougal claimed to have been impregnated by Trump, nor has any other woman come forward to make such a claim. 3) While testifying under oath before Congress in February 2019, Trump personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen denied the existence of a Trump love child and said he was not aware of Trump's having paid for any women to obtain abortions: No matter how fervently some Trump opponents might want to believe in this rumor, from an evidentiary standpoint it currently lives only in the realms of surmise and conjecture rather than established fact. (en)
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