The recurring issue of hush money payments by US presidents.
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.