Granted the article is very biased but there is certainly truth in the article.
Trump started out denying that he even knew Stormy Daniels, then he denied having a sexual relationship with her, then he said he didn’t know about any payoffs to her. Next, he filed his required federal financial disclosure form in which he effectively admitted making the $130,000 payment to shut her up just before the election in 2016.
He did an about-face on trade restrictions on China, announcing that he would seek to help the Chinese communications giant ZTE, which paid a $1.2 billion fine last year for violating sanctions against trade with North Korea and Iran. Three days previously, China had issued a half-billion dollar loan to a development project in Singapore that includes Trump-branded hotels, golf courses and condos.
There is just so much evidence of his lying, cover ups, and incompetence, you just can't ignore it. Throughout his life he has literally surrounds himself with crooks, shyster lawyers, porn stars, escorts, and mobsters. He's admitted he bribed city officials back in the 70's. Claimed he out smarted the judge in his bankruptcy. He bragged about how he took the New York banks to cleaners. Laughs about how he cheated New York out of building a promised museum and sports arena. He has been a defendant in 1900 lawsuits for breach of contract, sexual harassment, defamation, fraud, physical assault, verbal abuse, intimidation,...... He has been the target of over 100 investigations by the IRS. The amount he has spent on settlements in litigation is unknown but it has be in the hundreds of millions.