What did Trump’s doorman say about his alleged lovechild?

Whatever other sins Donald Trump may have committed, there is little evidence that he fathered a secret child with his former housekeeper.

Reporters from the Associated Press and The New Yorker who investigated the claim in 2017 and 2018 found little to back it up, and the housekeeper herself explicitly denied it.

But that did not stop the publishers of theNational Enquirer paying one of Mr Trump's former doormen $30,000 in 2015 – allegedly at the behest of Mr Trump and his aides – with the goal of suppressing his story.

Now that claim is part of Mr Trump's ongoing hush money trial in New York City, where prosecutors allege that the former president engaged in a «criminal conspiracy» to bury unflattering stories in advance of the 2016 election.

So what did Mr Trump's doorman really say, and why does it matter now?

Dino Sajudin started working at Trump Tower in 2008, according to his self-published memoir Trump Doorman.

The Trump Organization, he wrote, reminded him of «the gangsters of Brooklyn», where he grew up.

At one point, Mr Sajudin claims that he complained about the rude behaviour of the tower's concierge, a Colombian-born woman who spent ages away from her post on lunch breaks and luxury shopping sprees.

That was when a man known as «Mr C» told him that the woman was Mr Trump's secret daughter.

«Dino when you have Trump’s kid, you can do whatever the hell you want to,» Mr C supposedly told Sajudin. «Little Tiffany and Ivanka are not the only girls out there carrying the big guy’s DNA.»

Once again, journalists have not found anything that corroborates this claim. The alleged mother of the child told the AP that it was «all fake» and that the Enquirer «lost their money», and the father of the family told The New