May 3, 2018 at 9:31 a.m. PDT
President Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called “false and extortionist accusations” about a decade-old affair.
In morning tweets, the president confirmed that Cohen entered into a nondisclosure agreement with Daniels, something Trump called “very common among celebrities and people of wealth.”
Trump stressed that no campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen, calling it a “private agreement.”
“Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction,” he wrote.
Giuliani: Trump repaid attorney Cohen for Stormy Daniels settlement
Trump’s explanation on Twitter came the morning after former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a recent addition to Trump’s legal team, acknowledged for the first time that Trump had repaid Cohen — despite Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment. Giuliani made the comments Wednesday night to Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
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