Trump says money reimbursed to Cohen wasn't connected to campaign

Source: Politico | May 3, 2018 | Louis Nelson

President Donald Trump insisted Thursday morning that his longtime personal attorney acted outside the auspices of the 2016 Trump campaign when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement, and that the president’s reimbursements to his lawyer was not made from campaign funds.

The president’s statement, delivered via Twitter, follows the Wednesday night revelation from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani that the president had indeed reimbursed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the payments to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. That concession from Giuliani ran counter to previous statements from the president himself, who told reporters last month that he did not know about the payment, and from Cohen, who has said he made the payment from his personal funds and was not reimbursed.

“Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA,” Trump wrote on Twitter, stretching his message across three posts to accommodate the social media site’s character limit. “These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth.”

“In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair,” the president continued on Twitter. “Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction.”

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