The recurring issue of hush money payments by US presidents.
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Former President Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to be arraigned on charges of falsifying business records as part of a cover-up of payments to an adult film star with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair. However, he is not the first president to be implicated in a hush money scandal. Thomas Jefferson, Warren Harding, and Richard Nixon were also accused of making hush money payments.
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