Prosecutors try to connect hush money scheme to other alleged Trump affairs

Playboy model Karen McDougal claimed affair with Trump in 2006, for which she was allegedly paid $150,000

With the release of Donald Trump's indictment on Tuesday confirmed the news that the 34 felony counts against the former president involved hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star. But prosecutors also tried to connect that scheme to other extramarital affairs, including Trump's alleged relationship with former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

As the Wall Street Journal first reported in 2016, the parent company of the National Enquirer, which endorsed Trump's first presidential bid, agreed to pay McDougal $150,000 for her story about an alleged affair with Trump beginning in 2006. But the tabloid ultimately did not publish McDougal's account, effectively quashing the story in an industry tactic known as catch and kill".