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What did Trump’s doorman say about his alleged lovechild?

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Whatever other sins Donald Trump may have committed, there is little evidence that he fathered a secret child with his former housekeeper.

Reporters from the Associated Press and The New Yorker who investigated the claim in 2017 and 2018 found little to back it up, and the housekeeper herself explicitly denied it.

But that did not stop the publishers of the National Enquirer paying one of Mr Trump's former doormen $30,000 in 2015 – allegedly at the behest of Mr Trump and his – with the goal of suppressing his story.

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