WASHINGTON
In a startling disclosure, President Donald Trump's legal counselor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Trump reimbursed his own lawyer $130,000 in an arrangement made just before the 2016 race to keep porn star Stormy Daniels close-lipped regarding her tryst with the president, specifically repudiating Trump's announcements about the quiet cash.
Amid an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," the previous New York City leader and US lawyer said the cash to reimburse Michael Cohen had been "piped ... through the law office and the president reimbursed it."
Inquired as to whether Trump thought about the game plan, Giuliani stated: "He didn't think about its specifics, to the extent I know. In any case, he knew about the general course of action, that Michael would deal with things like this, similar to I deal with things like this for my customers. I don't load them with each and every thing that goes along. These are occupied individuals."
The remarks repudiate proclamations made by Trump half a month back, when he said he didn't know in regards to the installment to Daniels as a component of a nondisclosure understanding she marked days before the presidential race.
Asked on board Air Force One whether he thought about the installment, Trump said straight: "No." Trump additionally said he didn't know why Cohen had made the installment or where he got the cash.
In a telephone meet with "Fox and Friends" a week ago, nonetheless, Trump seemed to sloppy the waters, saying that Cohen spoke to him in the "insane Stormy Daniels bargain."