Sentences with phrase «hush money revelations»

Giuliani's hush money revelations spur new questions about White House's (lack of) credibility.

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In a tweetstorm this morning aimed at containing the fallout from Wednesday night's revelation by Rudy Giuliani that Donald Trump repaid Michael Cohen for hush money Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels, the president attempted to thread the various legal needles involved in trying to explain how this arrangement did not violate campaign finance law.

President Trump tried to contain the legal and political fallout from his attorney Rudy Giuliani's revelations that Trump paid hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, which the president had previously denied, by posting a series of tweets early Thursday.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, now an attorney for President Trump, has rocked the political and legal worlds not only with his revelation that Trump reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for hush money paid to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels, but that the president fired James B. Comey because the then - FBI director wouldn't publicly clear Trump in the Russia affair.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.