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President Donald Trump said Thursday reimbursement to his personal lawyer for hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels was done through a monthly retainer and "had nothing to do with the campaign." On Twitter, Trump says his personal attorney Michael Cohen received a monthly retainer "from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA."
US President Donald Trump confirms reimbursing his personal lawyer for a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels AFP/MANDEL NGAN WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed a "reimbursement" as part of a hush agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels over allegations of a decade-old affair, but he said campaign money wasn't involved. Trump's comments in a series of tweets, which contradicted his earlier denials of knowledge of a payment to Daniels, came after former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a member of the president's legal team, said Trump reimbursed his long-time lawyer Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Daniels.
Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, joined Stephen Colbert on the Late Show Wednesday night to discuss his client's current lawsuit against President Donald Trump. Daniels is currently suing Trump for defamation in federal court in New York.
In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. President Donald Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, May 2, 2018, the president repaid attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Giuliani made the revelation during an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity."
Former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told Fox News on Wednesday night that the president has reimbursed his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 paid to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Add Donald Trump as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Donald Trump news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
With few details about Gina Haspel's undercover career, debate over President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA descended Wednesday into verbal spatting between those who praise her experience and others who want her disqualified because of her role in the spy agency's harsh interrogation of terror subjects after 9/11. Haspel faces a contentious hearing in the Senate intelligence committee next week ahead of what the White House admits will be a close confirmation vote in the full Senate.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday hired a veteran attorney who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process as the White House shifted to a more aggressive approach to a special counsel investigation that has reached a critical stage. The White House announced the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.
The Latest on porn actress Stormy Daniels' claims that she had sex with President Donald Trump : The attorney for Stormy Daniels is calling for "serious consequences" for President Donald Trump after his new lawyer says the president reimbursed his personal "fixer" for a $130,000 payment to the porn actress. Michael Avenatti said Wednesday: "This is a stunning revelation.
Rudy Giuliani , the former New York City mayor who is now part of President Donald Trump 's legal team, confirmed one of the reasons James Comey was fired as director of the FBI last year. "He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn't a target of the investigation," Giuliani told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday night.
President Donald Trump hired a veteran attorney who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process as the White House shifted to a more aggressive approach to a special counsel investigation that has reached a critical stage. The White House announced Wednesday the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.
The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea, a group of Republican politicians have said. The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea, a group of Republican politicians have said.
President Donald Trump has presented the National Teacher of the Year award to a Washington state educator who gave him a stack of letters from some of her teenage refugee pupils. Mr Trump did not mention the types of students Mandy Manning teaches during a White House ceremony honouring her and other winners.
Donald John Trump Top Trump trade official: 'Any country or entity' exempt from tariffs will face quotas Pence in Arizona hails Arpaio as 'champion' of 'rule of law' Ex-Trump aide decries Senate Russia probe over high legal bills: report MORE 's legal team was still "several weeks away" from determining whether the president would consent to an interview with special counsel Giuliani, who joined the president's legal team roughly two weeks ago, said the decision would be determined in large part by how "objective" he and his colleagues perceive Mueller to be. "The more objective [Mueller] is, the more likely we would be willing to cooperate.
A group of House Republicans is seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are working out the details of a historic summit that could take place by the end of May or early June.
"Grab a Puppy Before It's Too Late," the animal welfare group's latest campaign created by cross-cultural agency The Community, looks to entice the president into adopting a dog by playing on what may be his most infamous quote. Several media outlets have reported on Trump's decision to break from a longstanding tradition of owning a pet in the White House.
President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system's westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America's judges as conservative or liberal, implying they bring an ideology to their decision-making that goes beyond a careful assessment of law and precedent.
None of Trump's lawyers can even look at Mueller's real questions on Russia and obstruction of justice because they don't have security clearances President Donald Trump's lawyers may have another legal hurdle to clear as they prepare for the possibility of a battle royal with the special counsel's office Jay Sekulow, Rudy Giuliani and Martin and Jane Raskin are not believed to have the necessary securirty clearance to review some of the materials Trump is on the path to a historic confrontation with special counsel Robert Mueller, who has threatened to subpoena him if he doesn't play ball The White House says its position is that complying will make the probe end more quickly, and that is what it wants And Trump defiantly claimed this morning, 'There was no Collusion and there is no Obstruction of Justice ' President Donald Trump 's lawyers may have another legal hurdle to clear as they ... (more)
In this Feb. 21, 2018, file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gestures to the Utah House during a visit at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Retiring Hatch is looking to cement his legacy after more than 40 years in Washington as he unveils plans for a think tank and library bearing his name in Salt Lake City.
President Donald Trump is slamming a leaked list of questions that the Justice Department's special counsel may want to ask him as part of the Russia investigation. Trump on Twitter Wednesday promoted a comment from attorney Joseph diGenova describing the questions as an "intrusion" into the president's constitutional powers and saying it would be "outrageous" to ask the president what he was thinking when firing members of the executive branch.
President Donald Trump angrily insisted again Tuesday that there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russians in the 2016 election, but special counsel Robert S. Mueller III apparently isn't convinced. After speaking with prosecutors on Mueller's team, Trump's lawyers prepared a list of nearly four dozen questions the prosecutors had that could be posed during a potential interview with the president, according to sources with knowledge of the process who declined to speak publicly.