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Earlier on Friday, a former White House aide [Madeline Westerhout] who worked closely with Mr. Trump testified about planning a meeting between him and Mr. Cohen. At that meeting, held in the Oval Office in February 2017, the two discussed the hush-money payment Mr. Cohen had made to Ms. Daniels, a porn star who said she had sex with Mr. Trump in 2006 at a hotel in Lake Tahoe, Nev.