President Donald Trump says the new addition to his legal team, Rudy Giuliani, will « get his facts straight. ».
The Latest on President Donald Trump and payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels (all times local):
10:30 a.m.
President Donald Trump says the new addition to his legal team, Rudy Giuliani, will « get his facts straight. »
Trump, speaking to reporters Friday, suggested that Giuliani had misspoken about reimbursements to the president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for payments to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
Trump said Giuliani « is a great guy but he just started a day ago. » He said the former New York City mayor is « learning the subject matter. »
The president added that « virtually everything » reported about the payments were wrong. He did not elaborate.
Giuliani said this week that Trump knew about Cohen’s 2016 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels and that Trump had repaid Cohen through monthly retainers.
Trump had previously denied knowing about the payments.
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12:37 a.m.
President Donald Trump is insisting that his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign.
But the surprise revelation of the president’s payment clashed with his past statements, and has created new legal headaches and stunned many in the West Wing.
White House aides were blindsided when Trump’s recently added attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Wednesday night that the president had repaid Michael Cohen for $130,000 that was given to Daniels to keep her quiet before the 2016 election about her allegations of an affair with Trump. Giuliani’s revelation seemed to contradict Trump’s past statements.
