Rudy Giuliani argued Monday that hush money payments, such as those at the center of the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Trump, are a “business expense.”
NewsNation anchor Dan Abrams asked the former Trump attorney on “Dan Abrams Live” to weigh in on the payments made to two women during the 2016 election and whether Trump falsified business records as a result. Trump was indicted over the payments last week, with his arraignment in New York set for Tuesday.
Abrams posited that “it seems” that the former president had falsified business records by writing the hush money payments off as a legal expense instead of a personal one.
Giuliani responded by questioning whether Trump actually falsified the records, asking, “Did he? Did he enter the business records?”
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Giuliani said that whether such an expenditure was legal expense or not, it would still be a business expense, noting that it would just affect someone’s “reputation.”
Abrams pushed back, saying, “Well, it’s not a business expense if you’re paying off women to not tell people about your affair.”
Giuliani responded that “it sure is” — and that the Internal Revenue Service would accept it as such.
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