Karen McDougal, Playboy Playmate Who Got $150,000 for Her Silence on Trump, Posts Suggestive Photo in Her Bathtub

Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with President Trump in the mid-2000s plays a central role in the criminal case against him, shared a playful photo on social media from her bathtub aimed directly at the former president.

Ms McDougal shared a photo showing her legs stretched out in a bathtub with a candle, an oversized glass of red wine and Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill.”

The book references the catch-and-kill system revealed during Mr. Trump’s criminal trial. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker said he, Mr. Trump, and Michael Cohen, the former president’s then-fixer, hatched a “plot” to keep negative stories about Mr. Trump out of the public domain. press.

“I said what I would do is I would post or publish positive articles about Mr. Trump and I would publish negative articles about his opponents,” Mr. Pecker said during the trial.

According to Mr. Pecker, he was to be Mr. Trump’s eyes and ears in the news world and the National Enquirer would also pay sources for exclusive rights to salacious stories about Mr. Trump and never publish them – hence the expression “catch and kill”. .”

In the case of Ms. McDougal, Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year in 1998, she claims to have received $150,000 for her story about a 10-month sexual affair she claims to have had with Mr. Trump in 1998. In 2006 and 2007, when he had just married the future first lady, Melania Trump, and shortly after the birth of Mr. Trump’s youngest son, Barron.

Mr. Pecker and Ms. McDougal’s lawyer, Keith Davidson, testified at trial that the $150,000 payment was disguised as an agreement to allow him to write a fitness column for one of Pecker’s publications. Mr. Pecker and write about his dismissal. breast implants. Neither project ever came to fruition.

Ms McDougal claimed she and Mr Trump were “in love”.

According to Ms. McDougal, the former president met her at a party at the Playboy Mansion thrown for contestants on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which featured Mr. Trump. She said she was wearing a translucent dress, which the former president had taken a liking to.

“He followed me everywhere like a puppy, trying to get my attention,” Ms McDougal told the Daily Mail of the event. “He liked me so much that the Bunny Mother said, ‘Wow, he really has a thing for you.’ »

Ms McDougal added: “I was in love with him. He was in love with me,” saying, “I know that because he told me that all the time.”

Mr Trump denies any affair with Ms McDougal.

By posting the photo, Mc. McDougal is venturing into territory she doesn’t normally venture into on social media. While some of the figures involved in Mr. Trump’s case, such as adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Cohen, have publicly mocked Mr. Trump in recent weeks, Ms. McDougal has remained largely silent of late.