A list of former President Donald Trump’s most famous contacts, including celebrities, billionaires and business associates, was shown to the jury during his hush money trial Thursday — and it had some surprising names.
Top on the list of eye-openers was tennis star Serena Williams, who hit the ceremonial first serve at a new tennis center at the Trump National Golf Club in 2015, two months before Trump declared his candidacy for the presidency.
Also on the list was former NFL quarterback Tom Brady. In 2015, a photograph showing a “Make America Great Again“ hat in Brady’s football locker went viral. At the time, Brady said “It would be great” if Trump were elected president, a statement he later walked back.
Trump’s contact list was revealed when former White House aide Madeleine Westerhout testified on Thursday in the former president’s hush money case, where he is accused of falsifying business records in connection with a payoff to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who claimed she had a sexual encounter with him.
Westerhout testified that she reached out to Trump’s executive assistant, Rhona Graff, to get an updated contact list from the Trump Organization to use at the White House. Graff testified earlier in the trial that Trump kept contacts in the Trump Organization computer system for Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.
The contacts, which had phone numbers redacted, were displayed on a video screen Thursday as an exhibit as Westerhout discussed its provenance and how she used it.
The list included names pertinent to the trial, including David Pecker and Michael Cohen, but also a few less expected contacts.
Here’s who was included in Trump’s contact list:
Joe Scarborough, MSNBC “Morning Joe“ host
Allen Weisselberg, former Trump executive
Serena Williams, tennis star
Steve Wynn, casino magnate
David Pecker, former CEO of American Media
Jeanine Pirro, Fox News host
Ike Perlmutter, former Marvel CEO
Phil Ruffin, Las Vegas casino owner
Peter Ward, former president of the Hotel Trades Council
Bill O'Reilly, former Fox News anchor
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney
Tom Barrack, real estate investor
Bill Belichick, NFL coach
Tom Brady, NFL quarterback
Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general
Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC “Morning Joe“ host
Mark Burnett, executive producer of NBC's "The Apprentice”
Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, an entertainment agency that owns the UFC and WWE
Jerry Falwell Jr., former President of Liberty University
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.
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