Attorney Keith Davidson is continuing his testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. He was the lawyer who was at the center of the so-called hush money agreements with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
The lawyer helped negotiate the deals to silence Daniels and McDougal over their alleged encounters with Donald Trump. Davidson said in an interview with CNN in 2018 that he’d spoken with Michael Cohen on several occasions about the two women.
Davidson also said he called Cohen in the late summer of 2016 to inform him that he’d settled a case involving Playboy model McDougal. McDougal sold the rights to her story to American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, for $150,000 and other perks. Davidson said he informed Cohen of the deal as “a professional courtesy.”
During his testimony last week, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified about his communications with Davidson throughout the process of negotiating the payments.
CNN’s Scott Glover and Sara Sidner contributed reporting to this post.
