Court documents released Thursday closely tied President
Donald Trump and his former top aide
Hope Hicks to hush money paid to a porn actress ahead of the 2016 election.
The
FBI warrant requests released Thursday show the law enforcement agency believed Trump and Hicks were intimately involved in arranging the $130,000 payment to
Stormy Daniels -- the screen name for Stephanie Clifford.
The documents map out a flurry of phone calls and text messages in October 2016, when Cohen was arranging the payment to Daniels to keep her from going public with her claim of an affair years earlier with Trump.