copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-13): The McDougal news came on the heels of the National Enquirer paying $30,000 to squash a doorman’s false rumor about Trump having a child out of wedlock. 10:16 a.m. EDT Cohen testifies about his 10 years with Trump, says Trump never had an email address Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial testified that he reported directly to Trump during his decade-long tenure as his executive vice president and special counsel. He recalled being tasked to renegotiate bills on Trump’s behalf, including a law firm invoice that Trump felt wasn’t "fair, reasonable, justified" and outstanding invoices from 50 vendors of Trump’s failed Trump University project. Cohen testified that he managed to trim most of the Trump University bills by more than 80%, sparing Trump from having to cover costs behind the $2 million left in the project’s bank account. Cohen also testified he spoke with Trump — either in person or by phone — multiple times a day. But Trump was wary of using email, Cohen said. "Mr. Trump never had an email address," Cohen said.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-30): Pecker testified that his company made two catch-and-kill payments to honor his agreement with Trump, paying $30,000 to a former doorman who falsely alleged that Trump had a child out of wedlock, and $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump that he denied took place. [...] During 35 minutes of testimony, Graff testified that she created contact entries in the Trump Organization's computer system for both McDougal and Daniels. She also testified that at one point she saw Daniels in Trump Tower on the same floor as the former president's office. [...] Georgia Longstreet, paralegal for Manhattan DA's office
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-27): "You handle it," Cohen quoted Trump as telling him after learning that a doorman had come forward with a false claim that Trump had fathered a child out-of-wedlock. [...] The McDougal news came on the heels of the National Enquirer paying $30,000 to squash a doorman's false rumor about Trump having a child out of wedlock. [...] Cohen also testified about his role in brokering a deal to buy a potentially damaging story - which claimed, falsely, that Trump had a child out of wedlock - from a Trump Tower doorman in order "to take it off the market."
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-04-26): Trump lawyer Emil Bove got Pecker to confirm that walking away from Dino Sajudin's story wouldn't have made business sense to Pecker's media company, American Media Inc. (AMI). AMI paid Sajudin $30,000 for the story that Trump fathered a child with a housekeeper. The company later concluded the story was false. [...] Former President Donald Trump wished his wife Melania a happy birthday Friday while complaining about being stuck at his New York hush money trial for allegedly hiding payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had sex with him while he was married. [...] Pecker testified the first payment was $30,000 to a doorman at Trump Tower who was peddling a story that never ran about Trump having an illegitimate child – even though Pecker knew it was "absolutely 1,000% false."
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-04-01): From an outside perspective, it appears that DANY has built a robust case along a narrowly-tailored theory of prosecution: falsifying business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information during the 2016 presidential campaign. Despite the historical significance of being the first indictment of a former president, the core allegations of falsifying business records are routine. As we detail below, the Manhattan DA has brought dozens of these cases over the years, including for covert payments made to benefit political campaigns. Thus, while having an ex-president as the defendant may be novel, prosecuting this type of conduct is not. [...] - Evidence regarding the "catch and kill" scheme, including payments made to Daniels, and two others. They are Dino Sajudin, the doorman who allegedly tried to sell a now debunked story about Trump fathering a child out of wedlock, and Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who allegedly sold her story of an affair with Trump. DANY also alleges that these acts, as well as AMI’s publication of negative stories about Trump’s opponents, should be considered part of the same overall scheme and are therefore admissible. [...] - In late 2015, Pecker heard that Trump’s former doorman at Trump Tower was selling a negative story about Trump, and Pecker directed AMI to purchase the rights to the story in order to suppress it. AMI paid the doorman $30,000, and although they learned the story was not true, Cohen instructed Pecker not to release the doorman from the deal until after the election.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2023-04-05): The statement of facts included information about hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, Playboy model Karen McDougal and a former Trump Tower doorman who’d claimed to have a story about a child Trump had out of wedlock. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000, while McDougal and the doorman were paid $150,000 and $30,000 respectively by AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer, according to the statement. [...] It says the scheme involved a $30,000 payoff to a doorman who was trying to sell information about a child that Trump allegedly fathered out of wedlock, $150,000 to "Woman 1" (former Playboy model Karen McDougal) who alleged an affair with Trump and a $130,000 payment to "Woman 2" (Stormy Daniels) over the rights to her story.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-04-14): According to the statement of facts from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media, Inc, at one point bought a story about Donald Trump fathering a child out of wedlock. "[I]n or about October or November 2015, the AMI CEO learned that a former Trump Tower doorman (the ‘Doorman’) was trying to sell information regarding a child that the Defendant had allegedly fathered out of wedlock," the statement of facts reads. "At the AMI CEO’s 4 direction, AMI negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the Doorman $30,000 to acquire exclusive rights to the story. AMI falsely characterized this payment in AMI’s books and records, including in its general ledger. AMI purchased the information from the Doorman without fully investigating his claims, but the AMI CEO directed that the deal take place because of his agreement with the Defendant and Lawyer A."
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-30): Prosecutors alleged that Trump altered financial records in order to hide the paper trail from a payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence on a purported affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump has long denied Daniels’s allegations. The verdict wraps up a legal process that began in April 2023 when Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled a 34-count indictment of Trump, the first of the four cases filed against him that year. [...] Blanche downplayed the prosecution’s argument that there was a conspiracy to hide unsavory information in order to get Trump elected. "It doesn’t matter if there was a conspiracy to try to win an election. Every campaign in this country is a conspiracy to promote a candidate," Blanche said. [...] The first test of this new partnership was a circulating story about a Trump Tower doorman who was shopping details about an alleged lovechild of Trump’s. Cohen testified that he advised Trump on it and that he told him to "handle it." He described keeping tabs on Pecker and National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard as they moved to acquire the doorman’s story, updating Trump as the deal progressed. Cohen said he went to Trump immediately when the $30,000 deal was struck, wanting to ensure he got credit for his work. "That’s great," Trump reportedly said.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-31): Trump's campaign at the time believed the claims could harm his chances of winning the election, so he authorized the payment. He ultimately won that election against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat. After the payment, Trump falsified his business records in an attempt to hide it, but it was discovered during an audit a few years later while he was in office, prompting the porn star to come forward publicly with her claims of an affair, claims she had wanted to make in 2016. That sparked an investigation into Trump and his business dealings and sparked the historic trial that played out in the New York City Criminal Courthouse in lower Manhattan for the past several weeks. [...] The payments Trump was found guilty of occurred between August 2015 and December 2017. In the first instance, Trump paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman via American Media Inc. (AMI) who claimed to harbor a story about an out-of-wedlock child Trump allegedly had.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2023-04-05): On Tuesday, the twice-impeached former president officially surrendered to arrest for a hush-money payment to a porn actress with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair. And while this is a major news story, mainstream media’s live feeds were so focused on Trump it would’ve been difficult to not know when he was going to the bathroom. [...] But how can the mainstream media cover any of this when it is so obsessed with covering the minute-by-minute movements of a man who has been impeached twice, lost the election, and has since been arrested?
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2023-04-08): It centers on payoffs to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged the former president had out of wedlock. [...] Prosecutors allege that the first instance of Trump directing hush money payments came in the fall of 2015, when a former Trump Tower doorman was trying to sell information about an alleged out-of-wedlock child fathered by Trump. David Pecker, a Trump friend and the publisher of the National Enquirer, made a $30,000 payment to the doorman to acquire the exclusive rights to the story, pursuant to an agreement to protect Trump during his presidential campaign, according to the indictment. Pecker’s company later determined the doorman’s story was false, but is alleged to have enforced the doorman’s confidentiality at Cohen’s urging until after Election Day.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2023-04-11): As twice-impeached Donald Trump became the first former president to ever be criminally indicted and arrested, his sons and Marjorie Taylor Greene were busy circulating stories from right-wing outlets drawing attention to the daughter of the New York judge presiding over Trump’s hush-money payment case.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-31): Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial delivered a historic verdict this week, convicting the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records while trying to cover up an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election. [...] But that’s exactly what Pecker did twice for the 2016 Trump campaign following the August 2015 meeting, according to prosecutors. AMI paid $30,000 for the rights to a story, which turned out to be false, from a former Trump Tower doorman regarding information that Trump allegedly had a child out of wedlock. [...] Would Pecker front the money for a third "catch and kill" payment for Trump? Not a chance, Pecker testified. "We already paid $30,000 to the doorman, we paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal, and I am not a bank. I am not paying out any further disbursements among us," Pecker said.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-04-30): Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in New York centers on dozens of business records, testimony from witnesses who prosecutors acknowledge might have "baggage," and a maze of emails and text messages that prosecutors hope to weave into a sturdy case against the former president. [...] Pecker testified that his company, American Media Inc., paid a former Trump Tower doorman $30,000 for a false story that Trump had an illegitimate child, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the exclusive rights to her story of a months-long affair with Trump, which he has denied. [...] "We didn't want the story to embarrass Mr. Trump or embarrass or hurt the campaign," Pecker said when asked about the McDougal story.
Claim: The New Republic claimed in an article that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office determined a Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s out of wedlock child. (The New Republic, 2023-04-04)
Evidence (2024-05-31): "This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be November 5, by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here," Trump said minutes after a jury foreperson announced he was guilty on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to an adult film star. After returning to Trump Tower and greeting supporters with a clenched fist, Trump issued a written statement that made clear that he views his own fate and the nation’s as indistinguishable — a familiar hallmark of a dictatorial leader. "I’m a very innocent man, and it’s okay, I’m fighting for our country. I’m fighting for our Constitution. Our whole country is being rigged right now," Trump wrote. [...] A question that long hovered over this trial is whether the crime — falsifying financial records to hide a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to mislead voters in 2016 — was sufficiently serious for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to risk the extraordinary political consequences of indicting an ex-president. Prosecutors’ use of Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen as their star witness, despite his own conviction on tax charges and for lying to Congress, was deeply controversial. Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday that the timing of the trial — in the middle of an election campaign — was unfair to the ex-president.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-04-05): Professor Charles Lieber was arrested for making false statements to federal authorities and concealing his connections to China, not for creating the coronavirus. The new coronavirus is not man-made or a biological weapon.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-22): Charles Lieber: Harvard professor guilty of hiding ties to Chinese programme - Published [...] Charles Lieber was found guilty of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account. His sentencing date is yet to be decided. [...] Prosecutors in Boston said Lieber knowingly hid his involvement in China's "Thousand Talents Plan", which aims to attract foreign research specialists. It has been flagged by the US as a security concern in the past.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-21): Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of making false statements, and two counts of failing to file reports for a foreign bank account in China. [...] Prosecutors argued that Lieber, who was arrested in January, knowingly hid his involvement in China's Thousand Talents Plan — a program designed to recruit people with knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China — to protect his career and reputation. [...] Lieber has been on paid administrative leave from Harvard since being arrested in January 2020.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-01-08): Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston. [...] According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities. Unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a "Strategic Scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruitment plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-06-09): Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of making false statements and will be arraigned in federal court in Boston at a later date. Lieber was arrested on Jan. 28, 2020, and charged by criminal complaint. [...] It is alleged that, unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a "Strategic Scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. He later became contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. According to court documents, these talent recruitment plans seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China, and they often reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT allegedly paid Lieber a salary of up to $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1 million Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT "not less than nine months a year" by "declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of [WUT]."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-26): Ex-Harvard professor Charles Lieber gets house arrest over China ties Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was sentenced to six months of house arrest on Wednesday, according to US media. [...] Though his involvement is not a crime, prosecutors said Lieber "purposely and repeatedly" lied to authorities about his affiliation with the university in Wuhan and failed to declare income earned in China.