New York Daily News

The Stormy isn’t over for Donald, says report

- Chris Sommerfeld­t

President Trump — already implicated in campaign finance violations over a hush payment issued to porn star Stormy Daniels — likely committed other crimes by failing to disclose that payoff in his sworn financial disclosure last year, a new report reveals, according to government ethics experts.

A bombshell Wall Street Journal report published Friday corroborat­es in exhaustive detail Michael Cohen's guilty plea from earlier this year, which implicated Trump in committing campaign finance crimes by authorizin­g Cohen to pay Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election in exchange for her silence about allegedly having sex with the President over a decade ago.

However, the report also reveals previously unknown details about Trump's involvemen­t and awareness of a scheme his corporate lawyer Allen Weisselber­g set up to reimburse Cohen for the hush payment — which ethics experts say prove the President broke false statement laws since he willfully omitted that debt in his 2017 financial disclosure form.

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