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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/trump-hush-payment-stormy-daniels.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news<snip>
WASHINGTON President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
How much Mr. Trump knew about the payment to Stephanie Clifford, the actress, and who else was aware of it have been at the center of a swirling controversy for the past 48 hours touched off by a television interview with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new addition to the presidents legal team. The interview was the first time a lawyer for the president had acknowledged that Mr. Trump had reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payments to Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels.
It was not immediately clear when Mr. Trump learned of the payment, which Mr. Cohen made in October 2016, at a time when news media outlets were poised to pay her for her story about an alleged affair with Mr. Trump in 2006. But three people close to the matter said that Mr. Trump knew that Mr. Cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it.
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In interviews on Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Giuliani insisted that the president had reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the $130,000 hush payment and then paid him another $330,000, if not more which was in direct conflict with the longstanding assertion by Mr. Trump and the White House that he did not know about the hush money or where it came from.
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Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It (Original Post)
kentuck
May 2018
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Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)1. Money laundering. n/t
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Hope they can prove he knew about it before the election.
genxlib
(5,526 posts)3. I call bs
He knew about it before it was made.
Are we really supposed to believe he let Cohen spend his money without his knowledge? No chance
The only question is whether there is a record of the approval.