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Giuliani: Trump repaid Cohen $130K for payment to porn star
Yahoo ^ | 5-2-18 | Catherine Lucey and Jill Colvin

Posted on 05/02/2018 8:52:23 PM PDT by Angels27

In a startling revelation, President Donald Trump's new lawyer said Wednesday that Trump repaid his personal attorney $130,000 in a deal made just before the 2016 election to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about her tryst with the president, directly contradicting Trump's past statements about the hush money.

During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the money to repay Michael Cohen had been "funneled ... through the law firm and the president repaid it."

Asked if Trump knew about the arrangement, Giuliani said: "He didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as I know. But he did know about the general arrangement, that Michael would take care of things like this, like I take care of things like this for my clients. I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people." Trump told reporters several weeks ago that he didn't know about the payment to Daniels as part of a non-disclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election.

Asked aboard Air Force One whether he knew about the payment, Trump said flatly: "No." Trump also said he didn't know why Cohen had made the payment or where he got the money.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: rudygiuliani; stephanieclifford; stormydaniels; stormydnaiels; trump
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To: txrefugee
"So Rudy’s exposing it now, prevents Mueller from using this issue as a perjury trap later."

..... You have a good point there. Probably more to come in an effort to defuse any perjury traps in the event of an Mueller interview under oath.

21 posted on 05/02/2018 9:05:56 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Parley Baer

“He had Cohen on a retainer and asked him to handle it. I would say President Trump did not know the details or the amount. As to payment it was probably all handled through the monthly retainer fees. In fact Trump may not have even written the checks.”

That’s all that Giuliani is saying here. Judging by the reaction on this forum so far, though, it will be easy for the Press to spin this into much more fantastic things.


22 posted on 05/02/2018 9:06:03 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (We)
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To: All

Juanita broaddrick: The press largely ignores a RAPE that happened years ago

Stormy Daniels: consensual relationship years ago....nonstop 24/7 news


23 posted on 05/02/2018 9:07:26 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: rightwingcrazy

You are correct. This is a big nothing burger.


24 posted on 05/02/2018 9:08:10 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: janetjanet998

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Bill Clinton aggravated rape: irrelevent!
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25 posted on 05/02/2018 9:09:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Angels27
_Classics IV - Stormy
26 posted on 05/02/2018 9:10:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Angels27

There is nothing here. You do understand?


27 posted on 05/02/2018 9:11:38 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: amihow

"...Cheaper to pay than defend even a false charge..."


Exactly. We observed a very similar lesson in the classic gangster movie A Bronx Tale years ago.
Sonny showed Calogero how he could not have to ever deal with Louie Dumps for just a $20.00 bill.

The attorneys for a successful billionaire chased away a bothersome gnat from their client for what is essentially pocket change for most of us.
The reality is President Trump is a person who is a germophobe. We are asked to believe he had sex with a filthy porn star? Absurd.


28 posted on 05/02/2018 9:14:18 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: P-Marlowe

Methinks this release of information was intentional.


29 posted on 05/02/2018 9:14:50 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Angels27

Who. Cares.


30 posted on 05/02/2018 9:15:10 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: Angels27

Of course this is Faggot Drudge’s headline. Scum sucking lowlife.


31 posted on 05/02/2018 9:15:14 PM PDT by heights
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To: cornfedcowboy

had to be..makes no sense to even mention her name it had nothing to do with the subject matter he said it for a reason


32 posted on 05/02/2018 9:15:43 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Maris Crane
'To tell the truth, after my daughter was born, I did not feel like being cozy. Barron was only months old. And President Trump is a very considerate man'

Your complimenting Trump for sleeping with a porn star while his wife takes a break from child birth?

33 posted on 05/02/2018 9:17:51 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Angels27

The President has denied he ever has an affair with this bimbo. No reason he would and every reason for some broke gutter snipe to claim he did.

This yahoo thing is a bit twisted. It’s assuming things that were never said.


34 posted on 05/02/2018 9:21:13 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Sarah Barracuda

For some reason it appears Trump is trying to get all the bad news out in the open. The criminality of election finance laws are very weak in this instance. I don’t think Trump is too worried about charges over this.


35 posted on 05/02/2018 9:22:25 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Theoria
Your complimenting Trump for sleeping with a porn star while his wife takes a break from child birth?

You don't know if Trump did or not.

Trump met with and had his picture taken with various people of different backgrounds throughout his colorful life.

This woman may have asked Trump to sleep with her and Trump told her to get bent. So now she's going to run with some story that she slept with Trump. And rather than fight her during the middle of a crucial election, Trump decided it was easier to pay her to shut up.

If Trump really slept with Daniels, why did she only ask for $130,000 to sign a non-disclosure form? Why not ask for maybe $5 million?

IMO this woman is a liar, probably has a dozen STDs, and was paid off by the DNC or Soros to violate her NDA.

36 posted on 05/02/2018 9:24:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Maris Crane

ZERO proof the President ever had an affair with this porn scum. His attorney paying her to shut her yap during the election does not mean it ever happened.

For financial gain that was her best move.


37 posted on 05/02/2018 9:26:19 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: cornfedcowboy

from what Rudy told John Roberts what he meant was Trump paid Cohen for services rendered because he was his lawyer and Cohen did work for him he didn’t know exactly what work was done just that he did things for him if he had said that on Hannity this would have been a non story


38 posted on 05/02/2018 9:28:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Not my cup of tea. The other freeper was hinting at that. The amount of info that is being released from the Trump Admin is increasing. Giuliani looks to be ‘clearing’ the record as soon as possible.
39 posted on 05/02/2018 9:28:55 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: 1035rep

Giuliani never mentioned the affair, simply that Trump repaid the $130K that Cohen sent to Stormy. It is pretty obvious(to me anyway) that Trump had the one night stand and knew about the hush money. This isn’t necessarily illegal though. IMO they are arguing plausible deniability that Trump was simply paying his attorney expenses for representing him with no particular knowledge of the preceding money trail.


40 posted on 05/02/2018 9:31:17 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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