Donald Trump saves face amid sexual misconduct allegations

A FORMER Playboy Playmate of the Year has detailed her alleged affair with the US President more than a decade ago, and apologised to Melania.

Melania Trump posted this picture on Twitter of her and the US President at the White House. Picture: Twitter/@FLOTUS

DONALD Trump — facing a slew of accusations of sexual shenanigans from several women — tweeted a photo of himself and the first lady looking lovey-dovey at the White House.

Melania Trump first posted the photo, showing her and her allegedly wayward hubby in overcoats standing side-by-side on a White House balcony and smiling widely with a snow-covered lawn in the background, theNew York Post reported.

The US President then retweeted the image, a day after accusations about his past sexual exploits surfaced on three fronts.

Two women — a former Playboy Playmate and contestant on The Apprent ice — pressed court cases against him.

And porn star Stormy Daniels trolled Trump by tweeting results of a lie-detector test that she said showed she was telling the truth when she said she and Trump had a fling in 2006.

Melania, Trump’s third wife, was at home raising their then-infant son, Barron, while the future president was allegedly getting it on with Daniels.

The president has said the three, along with about a dozen other women who’ve accused him of sexual misbehaviour or worse, are all liars, despite his admission of forced kissing and sexual groping on the infamous Access Hollywood tape.

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper today, former Playboy model Karen McDougal discussed her alleged affair with the President from over a decade ago.

Former Playboy ‘Playmate of the Year’ Karen McDougal apologised to Melania Trump for the alleged affair.

She claimed Mr Trump made her cry when he offered to pay her after the pair had sex.

“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” McDougal said. “I’ve never been offered money like that. I looked at him and said, ‘I’m not that type of girl.”

“And he said, ‘Oh,’ and he said, ‘You’re really special,’” McDougal said, adding: “It hurt me that he saw me in that light.”

She apologised to Melania Trump for the alleged affair, saying: “What can you expect except I’m sorry? I’m sorry. I wouldn’t want it done to me.”

The interview comes as a lawyer for Daniels demanded the Trump Organization preserve all of its records relating to the $130,000 she was paid as part of a nondisclosure agreement.

Citing “unmistakeable links” between Mr Trump’s company and the confidentiality agreement that Daniels signed days before the 2016 presidential election, Michael Avenatti said he intended to subpoena the Trump Organization for the same documents.

In his letter, Mr Avenatti demanded they preserve all emails by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, that mention Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as well as any emails and text messages related to the alleged relationship.

He sent similar demand letters to two banks — City National and First Republic — asking they preserve documents connected to the transaction.

Stormy Daniels has been involved in legal efforts to stop her talking about her alleged affair with US President Donald Trump. Picture: Matt Sayles/AP

Mr Avenatti also enclosed an email showing Mr Cohen used his Trump Organization email address in correspondence with a representative from First Republic.

In the e-mail, the representative said funds had been deposited in Mr Cohen’s account.

Mr Cohen has denied there was ever an affair and said he paid the $130,000 out of his pocket.

He has said neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Daniels and he was not reimbursed for the payment.

“We intend on using all legal means at our disposal to uncover the truth about the cover-up and what happened,” Mr Avenatti said.

“When we are done, the truth will be laid bare for the American people.”

Daniels filed a civil case in Los Angeles earlier this month seeking to invalidate the agreement so she could “set the record straight” and discuss her alleged relationship with Mr Trump, which she said began in 2006 and continued for about a year.

The case said their relationship included encounters in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and Beverly Hills, California.

Mr Trump married his current wife, Melania, in 2005, and their son, Barron, was born in 2006.

Daniels has also offered to repay $130,000 she was paid for agreeing not to discuss the relationship and argued in court documents that the agreement was legally invalid because it was only signed by Daniels and Cohen, but was not signed by Mr Trump.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.