Hush money is a term for an arrangement in which one person or party offers another an attractive sum of money or other enticement, in exchange for remaining silent about some illegal, stigmatized, or shameful behavior, action, or other fact about the person or party who has made the offer.
Hush-money trial was Trump's to lose. Here’s why he did
Trump's lack of a counter-narrative was among the problems that stymied the defence, some say.
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