Shep Smith: Trump’s ‘hush money’ wasn’t about sex but about influencing election

Fox News host Shepard Smith on Friday said Michael Cohen’s admission that he was directed by President Trump in 2016 to pay off women over alleged affairs shows the “hush money” was about not sex but the attempts to keep the information from the public eye ahead of the election.

“It’s important, though we know this, to remember and report often that this is not an investigation, a story of, an unfolding drama of, a man’s personal dalliances outside of his job — this is not a story about that,” Smith said on his show Friday. 

{mosads}“The issue here is, did the president, in an effort to sway the results of the 2016 election, commit a federal crime when he gave hush money or directed the hush money be given to women who were accusing him of things and might be able to hurt him in the eyes of the public before the public went to vote,” Smith continued.