Article snippet: Those loyal to Donald Trump went to great lengths to conceal his alleged affair with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal through secret meetings, pay-offs and legal agreements, according to Ronan Farrow's latest bombshell report in The New Yorker. In an interview today with ABC News chief anchor The Wall Street Journal reported that American Media Inc. (AMI), the publisher of the National Enquirer, had paid $150,000 for the exclusive rights to McDougal's story. “AMI has not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump,” according to a written statement the company gave to The Journal in 2016. In a statement to The New Yorker, AMI said it never published the story because the company said it didn't find McDougal's account credible. "Six former AMI employees tell me that's not the case," Farrow said on "GMA." Farrow said this "catch and kill" method was "routine activity" by AMI CEO and Chairman David Pecker, "who has publicly pledged his loyalty to Trump." "This is the interesting and potentially troubling dimension," Farrow said. "These dirty stories about high-profile individuals would be used as leverage over those individuals -- obviously national security implications here when that happens to be the president." He added, "Our reporting certainly suggests that, again, according to those AMI insiders, there was knowledge of this loyalty to Trump and that this flowed from that. We do not report that Trump ordered this." In a state... Link to the full article to read more