Michael Cohen says Trump told him to bury Stormy Daniels story: ‘Just take care of it’

Former fixer tells hush-money trial Trump was ‘really angry’ after account of alleged sexual liaison with adult film star emerged

Donald Trump told his one-time fixer Michael Cohen only weeks before the election to bury Stormy Daniels’s account of an alleged sexual liaison, demanding that he “just take care of it”, according to trial testimony in Manhattan court on Monday.

“This was a disaster, a fucking disaster,” Cohen, after he took the stand, recalled Trump saying. “Women will hate me.”

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