Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had a 10-month affair with Donald Trump has recently decided to break her social media silence and couldn’t resist saying “I hope I didn’t miss anything” and posted photos of herself enjoying some time off at a ski resort.

“I’ve been out and about enjoying God’s country,” said McDougal, 52 in an Instagram Post.

As reported by The Daily Mail, Trump’s indictment doesn’t just involve his $130,000 hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Indeed, it also involves two lesser-reported indirect payments to buy McDougal’s silence and to keep doorman Dino Sajudin quiet about an alleged affair Trump had with a former housekeeper. All of this purportedly happened in 2006. And yes, Trump was married to Melania at the time. The couple married in 2005.

No wonder Melania’s in a bad mood.

McDougal and Sajudin were both paid off by the Trump-aligned National Enquirer. The former housekeeper, however, has denied ever having an affair with Trump, and Sajudin’s wife has since called him a “serial liar.”

McDougal received a hefty $150,000 in 2016 for the rights to the story of her fling with Trump from American Media Inc. This is the parent company of The National Enquirer. The rights to the story were purchased by the tabloid but in a practice known as “catch and kill” meaning of course, that the story never ran.

 

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David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc., has confessed to doing this to help Trump’s campaign.

And right about the same time, American Media Inc. paid Sajudin $30,000 for rights to his story but stipulated in the contract that there would be a $1 million penalty if he gave the story to anyone else. That story wound up being “killed” too.

Trump’s lawyers have since said the former president was unaware of the payment until the deal was done. Pecker (who is the clear winner in the unfortunate last name category) also testified before the grand jury in the Trump case last week and reportedly connected Trump to the deal and to a larger scheme to deep-six negative stories about him during the 2016 campaign.

Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen has said he arranged for the National Enquirer to make the payment and recorded himself having conversations with Trump about the payment. Cohen has also admitted to conferring with the tabloid about Sajudin’s payment.

Trump can be heard at one point asking Cohen: “What do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?” He has repeatedly denied having the affair with the housekeeper.

All of the charges levied on Tuesday — falsifying records in the first degree — total a whopping maximum sentence of 100 years in prison according to New York law. But even if Trump is convicted on all charges it’s unlikely his sentence will be that stiff. According to Daily Mail, all of the charges are low-level felonies that carry a maximum of four years in prison for each count.

In 2018, during a tell-all interview with Anderson Cooper, McDougal said her first date with Trump resulted in her “crying in the backseat of a car” because he offered to pay her after sex.

“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” McDougal said.

She added she found the cash offer hurtful and she turned it down.

“I don’t even know how to describe the look on my face,” she told Cooper. “It must have been so sad.”

Later in the year, Trump gave her an apartment in New York City as a Christmas gift, but when the relationship ended she lost the apartment.

But she also tearfully recalled feeling guilty after going to Trump’s apartment in Trump Tower when he showed her Melania’s bedroom. She recalled thinking it was strange that Melania slept in a separate bedroom.

“I thought maybe they were having issues,” McDougal said.

She noted it was an uncomfortable feeling to walk into the apartment of a married man whose wife had just given birth.

“I couldn’t wait to get out of the apartment, I think,” she told Cooper.

“Doing something, doing something wrong is bad enough, and when you’re doing something wrong, and you’re in the middle of somebody else’s home or bed or whatever, that just puts it a little old stab in your heart, and I just couldn’t wait to get out of the apartment.”

“I wanted to go back to my hotel room.”

McDougal said she regretted the affair and felt guilty. Even though she somehow continued the affair with Trump for nearly a year.

“When I look back, I know it’s wrong,” she said. “I’m really sorry for that. I know it’s the wrong thing to do.”

I’m sure Trump also realizes it was the “wrong thing to do.” I’m sure however it’s because he faces the very real possibility of going to prison, not because he hurt his wife. He’s not the empathetic sort but he knows his jig may well be up, so I’m sure he’s sweating that one out.