President Donald Trump repaid his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for an alleged hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, Rudy Giuliani, one of the lawyers representing the president in the special counsel’s probe, said Wednesday night.
Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York made the remark on Wednesday night’s edition of “Hannity” on Fox News.
“Funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it,” Giuliani said.
The $130,000 payment to the porn star, which came as part of a nondisclosure pact brokered by Cohen shortly before the 2016 election in exchange for Daniels’ silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
Trump said last month that he didn’t know about the payment.
Cohen has previously maintained that he made the payment himself, and with his own funds,
Giuliani said the payment “is going to turn out to be perfectly legal.”
“That money was not campaign money. Sorry, I’m giving you a fact now that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money. No campaign finance violation,” Giuliani said.
On April 5, Trump, in one of his few public statements about Daniels, denied knowledge of the payment.
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