Friends and colleagues of Dylan Howard contacted me to say that Howard had boasted that he had evidence that Trump may have fathered a child with his former housekeeper in the late 1980s. Howard “would sometimes say things when drunk or high. Including telling me they would pay for stories and not publish, to protect people,” one of the friends told me. “You don’t forget when someone says, ‘Oh, by the way. The maybe-future president has a love child.’”