Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial has given the public about the former president's sex life. But, after weeks of testimony, one mystery lingered. According to one of the prosecutors in the case, Trump had an affair with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, while his wife, Melania Trump, was pregnant.
The claim that McDougal and Trump had an affair was not new. The idea that the affair took place while Melania Trump was expecting a child, however, had never been previously reported. The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass, disclosed it at a hearing just before jury selection began, on the morning of April 15.
And it was that detail that would bolster the prosecution's argument that Trump , he said. "The fact that this relationship occurred during the defendant's wife's pregnancy, and after the birth of their child, speaks directly to the extent to which the defendant believed the story would be damaging to his campaign," Steinglass told the judge. According to two sources with knowledge of McDougal's relationship with Trump, the prosecutor got the detail wrong.
"We were just as surprised as you when Josh Steinglass stated that Melania was pregnant at the time," Carol Heller, a representative for McDougal, told Business Insider. A second source with knowledge of the trysts between Trump and McDougal, and who testified in the trial, confirmed the relationship began "soon after the birth." Steinglass dropped the apparent bombshell on the very firs.