Trump telling confidants he's worried about impeachment: report
By John Bowden - 12/13/18 02:13 PM EST
President Trump has reportedly told confidants and close advisers in recent days that he is worried about Democratic threats of impeachment, despite his public comments indicating otherwise.
NBC News reports that multiple figures close to the president say that Trump has grown increasingly worried in recent days over an investigation into payments made to several women who threatened to come forward with stories of alleged affairs with Trump during the later days of the 2016 campaign.
Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen admitted to making the illegal payments at the president's direction and was sentenced to three years in prison this week for those crimes and others he admitted to in a plea deal earlier this year. This week, prosecutors with the Southern District of New York also announced a deal with American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, in which the magazine admitted to making a similar payment to a woman on Trump's behalf.
Those two deals spell trouble for the president, one Trump ally told NBC, who said that the true danger lies in the testimony of American Media chairman David Pecker and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
“The entire question about whether the president committed an impeachable offense now hinges on the testimony of two men: David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg, both cooperating witnesses in the SDNY investigation," a person close to Trump told NBC News.
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