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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUDY GIULIANI BOMBSHELLS The former New York City mayor revealed on Fox News last night that Trump had known about the $ 130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, since he had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for the expense.
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On Wednesday evening he sat down for a softball interview with Sean Hannity, and he ended up confirming that Donald Trump knew about Michael Cohen's $ 130,000 hush - money payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
The explosive social media controversy that ensued over the Giuliani interviews centered on the fact that on April 5 the President had stated flatly «no» when asked if he was aware of the $ 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen had made to porn star Stormy Daniels as hush money over her allegations that she and Trump had had a sexual relationship.
Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises «difficult and serious» issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department.
On April 5, 2018, President Trump said he did not know about a $ 130,000 hush - money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels from Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Latest on President Donald Trump and money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels (all times local): 7:55 p.m. President Donald Trump insists his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign.
Last week, President Trump denied knowing about the payment, telling reporters on Air Force One that he didn't know where the hush money came from.
In an appearance on NBC's Today show, Avenatti said «yes» when asked whether Daniels and Trump had a sexual relationship, and he said there was «no question» that Trump knew about the hush money payment when it happened in October 2016.
We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.
On Friday, the Journal reported that Cohen, a deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee, arranged a $ 1.6 million hush payment for his RNC fundraising colleague, Elliot Broidy, who sought to silence a Playboy Playmate he had an affair with.
That was the message on Twitter from D.C. bar The Brighton in January, shortly after The Wall Street Journal broke the news of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's hush - money payment to the porn star.
On information and belief, despite having detailed knowledge of the Hush Agreement and its terms, including the proposed payment of monies to Ms. Clifford and the routing of those monies through EC, Mr. Trump purposely did not sign the agreement so he could later, if need be, publicly disavow any knowledge of the Hush Agreement and Ms. Clifford.»
The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.
Michael Avenatti, Ms. Clifford's lawyer, said Wednesday night on Twitter that Mr. Giuliani's comments amounted to an admission that the president had lied to the American people about whether he was aware of the hush payment.
Donald Trump acknowledges Michael Cohen reimbursement on financial disclosure forms for Stormy Daniels hush money weeks after he told a reporter on Air Force One that he didn't know anything about the payment.
Mr. Giuliani recognized the situation was problematic, two people close to him said, because Mr. Trump had previously said on Air Force One that he was unaware of the hush payments to Stephanie Clifford, the actress who performs as Stormy Daniels.