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Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Wouldnt Remember Stormy Payout, Suggests More Hush Money Agreements May Exist
by Chris Riotta | 11:01 am, May 3rd, 2018
President Donald Trumps longtime friend and new personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined his legal team with guns blazing, vowing a speedy end to Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation and unleashing a tirade of controversial media interviews.
Its almost as if Giuliani cant keep up with his own words: First, he told Fox News Sean Hannity on Wednesday night the president had repaid his other lawyer, Michael Cohen, the $130,000 accompanying a gag order for Stormy Daniels. Until then, the president had claimed not to know anything about the agreement, which arose near the end of the 2016 election after Daniels claimed to have an affair with Trump years earlier.
By Thursday, Giuliani appeared to be correcting the record, telling the Washington Post in a phone interview that Trump wasnt told about the payment to Daniels but even if he was told, he wouldnt have remembered it.
Via Washington Post:
Rudolph W. Giuliani: He wasnt since it was somewhere between 10 and five days before the election. And he wasnt told. But even if he was told, he wouldnt have remembered it, like I wouldnt have remembered it. When, when he paid out of his own personal funds and if you listen to Cohens statement, it was very careful, he said, I wasnt paid from the campaign and I wasnt paid from the Trump Organization. Absolutely true. He was paid by Donald Trumps personal funds. And he was paid out of personal funds, which covered that, and possibly a few other things that, you know, would be considered incidental. This is not the kind of money that you would absolutely think of as the settlement of some kind of substantial case. Itd be more the kind of money that youd think of to be used to pay for a harassment case, which is the way they always thought of this. They never thought of it as true. And I dont think its true. And Im absolutely positive its not true.
Later on in the interview, Giuliani mentioned there may be other payments made during the 2016 election similar to Daniels, in which Cohen allegedly was repaid with the Trumps personal funds to silence various women alleging affairs with the future commander in chief.
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https://www.mediaite.com/online/rudy-giuliani-says-trump-wouldnt-remember-stormy-daniels-payment-suggests-more-gag-orders-may-exist/
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Both are making a huge point of saying this money didn't come from campaign funds. It has come from SO MANY different sources, they don't even remember where it came from.
Cohen's equity in his house...
Trump's personal funds...
Monthly payments from Trump...
Make up your minds!
marble falls
(57,106 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)When he says that a lawyer doesn't always "burden" his wealthy clients with every last little detail of something, I can say for a fact that any client - wealthy or impoverished - is going to look at a $35,000 or $130,000 expense and want to know what that's all about. Rudy's assertion that this ongoing installment reimbursement was of no concern to Trump because of his vast wealth (or whatever) is just so much nonsense.