A search warrant application included among the hundreds of pages of documents released Thursday in the wake of Michael Cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges in the Southern District of New York place President Donald Trump in a series of phone calls to arrange an alleged hush-money payment to a former porn star to cover up allegations of an affair.

U.S. District Judge William Pauley III on Wednesday ordered that the warrants be made public, saying the campaign finance violations associated with the payments had concluded and that “the weighty public ramifications of the conduct” justified their public release.

In one of the documents released Thursday, an FBI agent said it appears then-candidate Trump was involved in discussions over the hush money payment to former porn star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels.

That document, an application to determine the location of Cohen's cellphones, details how phone records and two warrants showed Cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages and emails with Clifford's attorney, Keith Davidson; David Pecker and Dylan Howard of American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer; and Trump and Hope Hicks, who was press secretary to the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

The calls came in the wake of a story and video showing Donald Trump talking to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush and referring to women in vulgar terms, according to the document. Around the same time, Clifford was in talks with media about going public with her alleged affair.

“Based on the timing of the calls in the days following the Access Hollywood story, and the content of the text messages and emails, I believe that at least some of these communications concerned the need to prevent Clifford from going public, particularly in the wake of the Access Hollywood story,” the unidentified agent wrote.

The agent said Trump joined one of those calls on Oct. 8, 2016, which was between Cohen and Hicks.

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