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"I produced a small piece of paper on which my sister had entered necessary monthly expenses," Britton wrote. She provided details about coming to an agreement with the politician to have her sister and brother-in-law adopt the child. In a tell-all book called The President's Daughter, Britton wrote about her yearslong relationship with Harding, which she said lasted until he died. Harding also made regular payments to woman named Nan Britton, with whom he had a child. In today's dollars, that would be the equivalent of nearly $260,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculator. Ultimately, he paid her that money to stay silent about their affair while he was president from 1921 to 1923. He added: "I will, I must abide by your decision."

I will pay you $5,000 per year in March each year, so long as I am in public service." The Two-Way 2015: Warren Harding, we hardly knew yeīut, he added, if Fulton Phillips believed he might "be more helpful by having a public position and influence. presidents for nearly as long as the United States of America has been a country. "I expect hush-money to be regularly sent for every folly or vice any one commits in this whole town," Steele wrote in a 1709 article about London. In terms of its origins, most scholars attribute the two-word phrase to Richard Steele, a politician, playwright and journalist who often wrote about morality and how people should conduct themselves in respectable society. Trump may be the most recent U.S president implicated in hush money scandal - but he's not the first.

It's a concise shorthand for a practice that's sometimes legal: One person tries to persuade another through the use of cash or goods to keep quiet about something unsavory. history to be arraigned on charges of falsifying business records as part of a cover-up of payments to an adult film star with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair. Past presidents have also been accused of making hush money payments.įormer President Donald Trump is now the first president in U.S. Former President Donald Trump is arraigned in New York on Tuesday over charges of falsifying business records with "intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof." The allegations stem from a scheme to silence an adult film star who said she was having an extramarital affair with Trump.
