Trump accuser and ex Playboy model Karen McDougal shares suggestive hot tub photo as she throw ‘brutal shade’ at the former president amid his hush money trial

Ex-Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal posted a suggestive bathroom photo on social media and appeared to attack former President Donald Trump.

McDougal has claimed in the past to have had an affair with Trump, although it is not directly related to the charges at his current criminal trial in Manhattan.

On Saturday, McDougal posted a single word, “Reflecting,” next to the photo of herself in the bath with the book “Catch And Kill,” giving her a moment to reflect on what happened during Trump’s trial.

The term “catch and kill” was used several times during the first two weeks of Trump’s hush money trial. It describes a tactic in which a tabloid newspaper such as the National Enquirer buys a story containing damaging information about someone and then “kills” it so that the story will never see the light of day.

McDougal usually writes about Jesus or sports on her X account and hasn’t posted about Donald Trump in more than a year.

McDougal says she was paid $150,000 for her accusation of affair with Trump, which Trump denies

‘Cheeky shadow. Fantastic book,” wrote attorney Howell Ellerman.

“Karen McDougal Talks the Trump Trial.” added New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the National Enquirer paid tens of thousands of dollars for stories about Trump to keep them out of the public eye.

McDougal says she was paid $150,000 for her accusation of an affair with Trump, which Trump denies. The Enquirer never published the story.

Earlier in the trial, The Enquirer’s former publisher David Pecker described in court how Donald Trump infuriated him when details of the secret deal with McDougal became public just four days before the 2016 election.

On November 4, 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported that Pecker’s company American Media paid McDougal $150,000 but did not publish her account.

Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial told how Karen McDougal’s lawyer negotiated with National Enquirer editor to buy her story about alleged affair

David Pecker, former publisher of The Enquirer, testified that he had been friends with Trump for decades and had helped stamp out negative stories during the 2016 election after a key meeting at Trump Tower

At the time, Pecker denied that his company was killing negative stories about Trump, but in court he admitted that the statement was false.

“I wanted to protect my business, I wanted to protect myself and I also wanted to protect Donald Trump,” he said.

Pecker described how McDougal wanted $150,000, as well as writing assignments and other business opportunities, for her claims of an affair.

“That suited me because I didn’t really want the story to get out,” she said. ‘I thought my contract was for work and it was a win-win situation. I didn’t know the term catch-and-kill at the time. I was a pawn in that scenario because of all the things I wasn’t aware of,” McDougal said recently.

McDougal claims to have had an affair with Trump for 10 months, from June 2006 to April 2007, about a year and a half after he married former first lady Melania Trump.

The former model says she met Trump when Hugh Hefner threw a pool party at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles. McDougal (bottom center) and other Playboy bunnies pose with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (top center left)

Trump watches as David Pecker testifies at his trial

The trial is entering its fourth week in Courtroom 1530 of Manhattan Criminal Court

The former model says she met Trump when he hosted Celebrity Apprentice and when Hugh Hefner threw a pool party for the show’s participants at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.

McDougal wore a see-through dress over her swimsuit at the party, which caught the future president’s attention.

“He followed me around like a puppy dog ​​trying to get my attention,” she told DailyMail.com in an interview last year. “He liked me so much that the Bunny Mom said, ‘Wow, he really has a thing for you.’

McDougal recalled that as she said goodbye, Trump asked his bodyguard for her number.

“He called a few days later and asked me to have dinner with him at the Beverly Hills Hotel,” she said. ‘I’m ashamed of it now because I knew he was married, but at the time it was out of sight, out of mind. I was a different girl then, I had fun and didn’t think too deeply about things.’

McDougal said that during her consensual affair with Trump, she met with the real estate developer five or more times a month.

She said her feelings about Trump were real.

‘I was in love with him. He was in love with me. I know that because he told me all the time. He would say, “You’re my baby and I love you.” He showed me off to his friends,” she said.