Who Is Karen McDougal & What Does She Have To Do With Donald Trump?

President Donald Trump’s past is bringing brought to light and it’s not looking good for the current President.

Former Playboy model and 1998 Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal says she met Trump at a party at the Playboy Mansion in 2006 and they had an affair. Trump was married at the time to Melania and their son Barron was only a few months old when the affair started.

The New Yorker obtained an eight-page written note from McDougal talking about her relations with Trump.

During the Playboy party, which was thrown after an episode of The Apprentice was filmed there, Trump took an immediate liking to McDougal. They exchanged phone calls and started having regular phone conversations. They eventually went on their first date.

“We talked for a couple hours – then, it was “ON”! We got naked + had sex,” McDougal wrote. Trump tried to pay her afterward, but she denied it. She also says that all of their encounters were consensual.

She claimed that Trump would fly her around the country to various events including the golf tournament in Lake Tahoe where his affair with Stormy Daniels started.

Their affair lasted nine months ending in April 2007. She broke things off with Trump because of the racist things he would say about her African-American guy friend.

According to the Wall Street Journal, McDougal sold her Trump affair story to National Enquirer for $150,000 but they never ran it. The payment meant that they owned the rights to her story and she couldn’t contractually share it. American Media Inc. who own’s the National Enquirer claims that they have “not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump.”

The CEO of AMI, David Pecker is good friends with Trump and the National Enquirer supported him throughout his campaign. Trump’s office says that McDougal’s claims are “fake news.”