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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."
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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.
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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.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. Here are some of Mr. Trump and the White House's responses to the allegations over the past few months.
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.
New assertions, accusations and counter-accusations involving President Donald Trump's alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels are aswirl today thanks to tweets by the president and remarks by his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In October 2016, shortly before the presidential election, Trump's private lawyer, Michael Cohen, used a newly established limited liability company to quietly pay an adult film star $130,000.
A White House spokeswoman said that President Donald Trump did not know as recently as a month ago that he had reimbursed his personal attorney for spending $130,000 to keep a porn star quiet. Speaking at the daily press briefing Thursday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump "eventually learned" that the money he reimbursed longtime lawyer Michael Cohen for included the payment to Stormy Daniels.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that 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." Trump previously claimed he didn't know about the payments or the source of them.
' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told "CBS This Morning" he was "stunned" and "speechless" after he heard President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, say the for a $130,000 payment he made to Daniels from personal funds as part of a non-disclosure agreement.. Daniels alleges she had sex with Mr. Trump in 2006, which Mr. Trump denies, and Cohen paid her to keep quiet 11 days before the election.
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.