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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiuliani: What if Daniels allegations came out during 2016 election?
By LOUIS NELSON 05/03/2018 08:47 AM EDT
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the presidents longtime personal attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election was intended to silence allegations of an affair at a sensitive time for the Trump campaign.
Imagine if that came out on October 15th, 2016, in the middle of the, you know, last debate with Hillary Clinton, Giuliani told Fox Newss Fox & Friends of the $130,000 payment made by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trumps personal lawyer. Cohen didn't even ask. Cohen made it go away. He did his job.
Daniels has alleged that she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and is in the midst of two lawsuits against the president: one to be released from a nondisclosure agreement that she says is invalid because Trump never signed it and another suing the president for defamation over a tweet in which he accused her of making up a 2011 episode in which she claims to have been threatened by an unknown man to leave Trump alone in a Las Vegas parking lot.
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was insistent though that the payment to Daniels was unrelated to Trumps 2016 campaign. The newly installed member of Trumps legal team said it was clear as a bell that Cohen had been reimbursed for his payment to Daniels through a retainer fee and not from campaign funds.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/trump-stormy-daniels-allegations-rudy-giuliani-566045
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Giuliani: What if Daniels allegations came out during 2016 election? (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2018
OP
Hey, Rudy - what part of "for purposes of influencing an election" are you having trouble getting?
EffieBlack
May 2018
#2
I am waiting for the details of that there STRUCTURED payment reimbursing
asiliveandbreathe
May 2018
#3
Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)1. We would be saying "Madam President" right about now. That's what if.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)2. Hey, Rudy - what part of "for purposes of influencing an election" are you having trouble getting?
The only thing richer than your astounding ignorance is your arrogance and confidence that youre smarter than everybody else.
My first year law students were better at this than you are.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)3. I am waiting for the details of that there STRUCTURED payment reimbursing
Cohen...the amount and the time line should be very interesting...."trump paid Cohen over several months"....my coffeemaker doesn't make this much noise when it percolates ......
As Rachel would say "watch this space"