Former President Donald Trump this summer time supplied a monetary incentive to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels if she agreed to maintain quiet about Trump — together with concerning the relationship that turned the middle of the hush cash funds that ended up the topic of a New York legal trial — forward of this November’s election, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on Wednesday.

Daniels delivered blockbuster testimony earlier this yr about hush cash funds she obtained from Trump forward of the 2016 election, during which she was paid to stay silent about an affair between the 2, a relationship he has denied. The jury convicted Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data associated to the funds.

In a case separate from the hush cash trial, Daniels was ordered to pay for Trump’s authorized charges after she misplaced a defamation swimsuit she filed in opposition to him. About two months after the hush cash trial, Trump’s lawyer advised Daniels’ consultant that the previous president would conform to a decrease cost if she agreed to not make any disparaging feedback about Trump.

“We disagree {that a} cost of $620,000 can be in full satisfaction of the three judgments,” Trump’s attorneys mentioned in a July letter obtained by Maddow from Daniels’ lawyer.  

“Nevertheless, we are able to conform to settle these issues for $620,000, supplied that your shopper agrees in writing to make no public or personal statements associated to any alleged previous interactions with President Trump, or defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his companies and/or any associates or his suitability as a candidate for President,” the letter continued. 

Daniels’ lawyer declined the proposal, Maddow reported. Daniels’ lawyer advised MSNBC that they finally settled on $627,500 however she didn’t agree to stay silent.

In a press release to MSNBC, Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung falsely asserted that the paperwork Maddow referenced “have been attained as a part of an unlawful, international hacking assault in opposition to President Trump and his workforce.”

“We’re working with authorities to find out the authorized repercussions for these probably committing federal offenses by posting and using stolen materials by terror regime adversaries,” he continued. “Ms. Daniels has been held to account by having to pay President Trump over and above the cash she owes to him because of her wrongdoings.”

MSNBC obtained the paperwork from Daniels’ lawyer, not by way of a hack. 

In Might, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data associated to hush cash paid to Daniels. The historic conviction marked the primary time a former president has been discovered responsible of a criminal offense.

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made funds to Daniels within the remaining stretch of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign. Trump then reimbursed Cohen for the funds, itemizing them as authorized bills on enterprise data. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced within the case subsequent month.