Trump tried to pay after being intimate: Ex-model

Washington, March 23: US President Dold Trump once tried to offer Karen McDougal money after they had been intimate, the former Playboy model told CNN. “After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” she told the news channel on Thursday of their first alleged sexual encounter over a decade ago. When asked if Trump tried to hand her money, McDougal said: “He did.” “I don’t even know how to describe the look on my face...It must have been so sad.” As for, Melania Trump, who was married to the President during the alleged affair, McDougal expressed remorse and apologised. “What can you say except I’m sorry?” she said. “I’m sorry. I wouldn’t want it done to me.”

Thursday’s sitdown was McDougal’s first televised interview since she filed a lawsuit earlier this week against American Media Inc., the company that owns The tiol Enquirer, to be released from an agreement with the company. Shortly before the presidential election, The Wall Street Jourl published a story that said American Media Inc. paid $150,000 to McDougal, but did not run her story in a tabloid maneuver known as “catch and kill”. (IANS)