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CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday hit Donald Trump for speaking before he thinks, nailing the president's legal team for walking into a legal minefield with their every-shifting explanation of Trump's $130,000 payout to adult film star Stormy Daniels. According to Tapper, Trump "continued his attacks on the special counsel investigation into whether members of his team conspired with Russia to impact the 2016 election" at an NRA speech Friday.
Honduran immigrants with temporary work permits on Friday became the sixth group from a foreign nation to be told by the Trump administration that they should go home.
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA has told senators privately that she would stand firm against any effort to restart the brutal detention and interrogation program the spy agency ran after 9/11, administration officials said Friday. In comments meant to soften the public profile of Gina Haspel before her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, two administration officials said she was not the "architect" of the program, but a "line officer" who never interrogated any terrorism suspects.
The White House is considering the head of a veterans' medical association as it reviews potential candidates to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Samuel Spagnolo is a George Washington University Medical School professor and the president of the National Association of Veterans Affairs Physicians and Dentists.
Television personality and longtime Michael Cohen friend Donny Deutsch suggested at pharmaceutical deficiencies could explain former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's defenses of President Donald Trump, during a Friday appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House." "It is abundantly clear - and more clear by the hour - that the president is far more worried about what his friend, your friend, Michael Cohen, has on him," host Nicolle Wallace observed.
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: President Donald Trump talks to the media as he leaves for Dallas to address the National Rifle Association, Friday, May 4, 2018 at the White House in Washington.
Stormy Daniels speaks to members of the media while attorney Michael Avenatti listens outside Federal Court in New York on April 16, 2018. President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said hush money paid to a porn actress during the 2016 election didn't violate campaign finance laws, seeking to clarify comments he made earlier in the week.
Trump, speaking to reporters Friday, suggested that Giuliani had misspoken about reimbursements to the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for payments to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. Rudy Giuliani, a current member of the president's legal team, said on Thursday that President Trump repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen $130,000 in the Stormy Daniels case.
Donald John Trump Stormy Daniels lawyer: There were 'extensive communications' on settling hush-money deal before election Trump asks Pentagon to look at options for withdrawing troops from South Korea: report Adelson helped arrange canceled Pruitt trip to Israel: report MORE told the entire country for months that he knew nothing about the payment to Stormy Daniels and that we should "ask Michael," referring to his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who had also stated publicly that he made the payment without the president's knowledge. Then, Rudy Giuliani revealed that the president not only knew about it but repaid Cohen.
President Donald Trump insisted Thursday his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign. But the surprise revelation of the president's payment clashed with his past statements , created new legal headaches and stunned many in the West Wing.
President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer for $130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's attorneys, said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president's past claims that he didn't know the source of the money. During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Giuliani said the money to repay Michael Cohen had been "funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it."
In Thursday's edition of "A Closer Look," Meyers went directly at Rudy Giuliani's seemingly bizarre inability to shut up One of the wildest weeks of all of the wild weeks of Donald Trump's 15-and-a-half months as president - yes, it really has only been that long - continued apace on Wednesday and Thursday with Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani telling anyone who would listen, including interview spots on Hannity and "Fox and Friends" that Trump totally knew about Michael Cohen paying Stormy Daniels off after Trump spent the last couple months denying that. And in a new edition of "A Closer Look" on Thursday, Seth Meyers was exasperated by the whole thing.
But the surprise revelation of the president's payment clashed with his past statements, created new legal headaches and stunned many in the West Wing. White House aides were blindsided when Trump's recently added attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Wednesday night that the president had repaid Michael Cohen for $130,000 that was given to Daniels to keep her quiet before the 2016 election about her allegations of an affair with Trump.
We don't know how much credit President Donald Trump deserves for the thaw in relations between North and South Korea, and it's too early to tell if a lasting peace will result from it, but it's no longer entirely farfetched that Trump could win a Nobel Peace Prize. Stranger things have happened.
Then President-elect Donald Trump greets Rudy Giuliani at the clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, N.J. on November 20, 2016. Then President-elect Donald Trump greets Rudy Giuliani at the clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, N.J. on November 20, 2016.
Then-President-elect Donald Trump calls out to media as he and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2016. Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link on Thursday between the $130,000 payment to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged affair and the potential fallout if her story had gone public shortly before the 2016 election.
Some peers want the US president to address MPs and members of the House of Lords in Parliament's Royal Gallery. Conservative Lord Cormack said Mr Trump should be given the opportunity to speak to both Houses and be received "with proper good manners".
On Monday, April 9, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the office, home, and hotel room of Michael Cohen , the longtime council and business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump. The raid on the president's infamous confidant, which was authorized by the U.S. attorney's office , led to the reported seizure of records relating to the lawyer's $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels following an alleged sexual encounter with the president in 2006.