Giuliani just created a new Stormy Daniels problem for Trump – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] In his first public comment about the Stormy Daniels hush payment, President Trump pretended he knew nothing about it . Pressed on why his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, would, just before the 2016 election, make a $130,000 hush payment to Daniels — a woman who claims to have had an affair with Trump — Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You’ll have to ask Michael.” On March 7, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders specifically denied Trump had any knowledge about the payments. Yeah, I’ve had conversations with the President about this…There was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he’s denied all of these allegations. During his first interview as a member of Trump’s legal team , Rudy Giuliani told a very different story about the payment. Giuliani said that Trump personally reimbursed Cohen for the “perfectly legal” payment, but downplayed how unusual that would be. “That money was not...