Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. How much Mr. Trump knew about the payment to Stephanie Clifford, the actress, and who else was aware of it have been at the center of a swirling controversy for the past 48 hours touched off by a television interview with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new a…
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Giuliani, who joined Mr. Trump’s legal team last month, “started a day ago,” Mr. Trump said, speaking to reporters on Friday as he left Washington to attend a National Rifle Association convention in Dallas. “He’s a great guy,” Mr. Trump said. “He’ll get his facts straight.” It was the first t…
The Path of Stormy Daniels’s $130,000 Payment to Keep Quiet
[ad_1] It may prove to be the most-talked-about secret payment in American political history — the $130,000 that President Trump’s lawyer Michael D. Cohen paid to the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Mr. Trump before he became president. That payment to Ms. Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, was a mere 0.005 percent of the $2.4 billion spent on the 2016 election. But it could have an outsize impact on the presidency. The payment has helped spur a lawsuit by Ms. Clifford aga…
The Legal Issues Raised by the Stormy Daniels Payment, Explained
[ad_1] In the end, a jury acquitted Mr. Edwards of one charge while deadlocking on the other five, and prosecutors opted not to seek a new trial. Richard L. Hasen , a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, said that after the Edwards mistrial, federal prosecutors will be reluctant to go forward with similar cases unless they have “documentary proof, a smoking gun, that a payment was in fact election-related.” What is the argument that the payment was not campaign-related? In an interview on Thursday on the Fox News p…
Sarah Sanders waves the white flag on Stormy Daniels – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] On April 5, President Trump specifically said he had no knowledge of the $130,000 payment Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels, and referred all questions back to Cohen. Last night, Rudy Giuliani admitted that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 in a series of payments that completed in 2017. During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Sarah Sanders was presented with a very difficult task are explaining how these two things are consistent. She barely tried. Sanders initially said that “this was information the president…
What Giuliani Said About Cohen’s Payment to Stormy Daniels
[ad_1] HANNITY: They funneled it through a law firm. GIULIANI: They funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it. HANNITY: Oh. I didn’t know that. He did. GIULIANI: Yep. HANNITY: There’s no campaign finance law. GIULIANI: Zero. Just like every — Sean, Sean — HANNITY: So this decision was made by — GIULIANI: Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. I wasn’t. I knew how much money Donald Trump put into that campaign, and I said, “$130,000? He could do a couple of checks for $130,000.” When I heard of Cohen’s …
Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels Hush Money
[ad_1] Mr. Giuliani said that he had spoken with the president before and after his interview on Fox News, and that Mr. Trump and other lawyers on the team were aware of what he would say. On Thursday, Mr. Trump said that he paid a monthly retainer to Mr. Cohen, suggesting, as Mr. Giuliani had, that the payment to Ms. Clifford was not a campaign contribution. The president has repeatedly denied that he had an affair with Ms. Clifford, who has described having intimate contact with Mr. Trump before he became president. Mr. Giuliani’s c…
Everything wrong with Trump’s new tweets on Stormy Daniels – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] After months of relative silence, Donald Trump has taken to using Twitter to address the allegations of Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who said she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006. The first occasion, an April 18th tweet in which Trump did not mention Daniels by name but nevertheless complained about “A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools,” earned the president a defamation lawsuit . But this morning, in a series of three tweets, he has made things much worse. Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received …
Trump Says Payment to Stormy Daniels Did Not Violate Campaign Laws
[ad_1] Photo President Trump backed up a surprising announcement by his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who said Mr. Trump repaid a $130,000 payment that Michael D. Cohen made to the actress Stephanie Clifford. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he paid a monthly retainer to his former lawyer and fixer, suggesting that a payment to a pornographic …
Giuliani just created a new Stormy Daniels problem for Trump – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] In his first public comment about the Stormy Daniels hush payment, President Trump pretended he knew nothing about it . Pressed on why his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, would, just before the 2016 election, make a $130,000 hush payment to Daniels — a woman who claims to have had an affair with Trump — Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You’ll have to ask Michael.” On March 7, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders specifically denied Trump had any knowledge a…
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