Scandals he’s seen off already
Before Donald Trump even set foot in the White House, his election campaign was dogged by controversy when the Washington Post published details of him enjoying ‘an extremely lewd’ conversation about women. Many, wrongly, predicted it would kill of his hopes of the presidency.
In October 2016, two days before he faced Hillary Clinton in the second TV debate, a 2005 episode of Access Hollywood was uncovered in which thenApprentice host Mr Trump bragged about women: ‘When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p***y.’
CHARLOTTESVILLE
At a white supremacist rally in Virginia in August 2017, a neo-Nazi drove his Dodge Challenger into peaceful counter protesters, killing a 32-yearold waitress. Within two hours, President Trump appeared on national television condemning ‘all that hate stands for...on many sides’. He deepened his problem by later repeating his claim of ‘blame on both sides’.
STORMY DANIELS
Reports of an affair between porn star Stormy Daniels and then-businessman Trump surfaced online in 2011. In January 2018, the Wall Street Journal revealed that during the presidential campaign he had paid Miss Daniels $130,000 (£105,000) via his lawyer Michael Cohen in return for a non-disclosure agreement.
Miss Daniels had been in discussions to tell her story on Good Morning America. The porn star went on TV to corroborate the WSJ’s claims. Trump initially denied any knowledge but his new lawyer, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, admitted that Trump reimbursed Cohen but ‘didn’t know about the specifics’.
Cohen was jailed after admitting eight charges, including one relating to illegal campaign funding. He implied he was acting ‘in coordination and at the direction’ of Trump.
RUSSIAN COLLUSION
Former FBI director Robert Mueller investigated allegations the Kremlin helped put Trump in the White House after it emerged his campaign knew that Russians had obtained emails stolen from Hillary Clinton.
The three-year probe failed to provide the evidence Democrats hoped would be the ‘smoking gun’ leading to impeachment. It uncovered wrongdoing by Trump’s inner circle, some now in jail, but failed to condemn – or exonerate – the President.