He didn't do it, leftards. Ask Mike.
Quote:Michael Cohen, 12 January 2018
"President Trump... vehemently denies any such occurrence".
Mr Cohen denied making the payment, and said all allegations had been "consistently denied by all parties" for years.
So why are they saying it?
How the hell would Mr Trump know? It's all been debunked.
Quote:Michael Cohen, 17 January 2018
"This is not Breaking News... it's old news that wasn't true then and not true now," Mr Cohen told the New York Daily News. "All they did is recirculate an old and debunked story."
So what about the bank statements?
Quote:Michael Cohen, 13 February 2018
In February, Mr Cohen announced for the first time that he had in fact paid Ms Daniels the money.
He said neither the Trump campaign nor the Trump Organization had known anything about the payment, which he had made from his own pocket. "Neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," he told the New York Times.
"[It] was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone."
So that's that, it had nothing whatsoever to do with Mr Trump.
But did he do it?
Quote:Donald Trump, 5 April 2018
"No". In his first public comments about the alleged affair, Mr Trump denied knowing about the $130,000 payment.
Asked by a reporter why Mr Cohen had made it, he said: "Michael is my attorney, and you'll have to ask Michael Cohen."
Actually, don't ask Mike, he's fired. Ask Rudy.
Quote:Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's legal aide, 3 May 2018
The former New York City mayor, who had only recently joined Mr Trump's legal team, told Fox News that the president had personally repaid Mr Cohen for the $130,000 payment.
"That money was not campaign money," he said. "They funnelled it through a law firm and the president repaid it."
Hang on, Mr Trump
repaid it?
Quote:Donald Trump, 4 May 2018
Speaking at the White House, Mr Trump cast doubt on Mr Giuliani's account by explaining that his lawyer was new to the job and not "familiar with everything".
"He started yesterday," the president told reporters. "He'll get his facts straight. He's a great guy."
Rudy's just getting his head around it. Look, it's complicated. Anyway, she's a complete bullshitartist.
Quote:Donald Trump, 3 May 2018
President Trump said the payment to Ms Daniels had been made and that Mr Cohen had been reimbursed through a "monthly retainer" as opposed to campaign funds.
"Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction," he tweeted.
He branded Ms Daniels' claims of an affair "false and extortionist".
So he didn't do it.
Look, sometimes you have to grease the wheels. Mike paid her some cash, Don bought Mike a drink, and that's that.
Go talk to Rudy. He's got the story straight now.
Quote:Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's legal aide, 4 May 2018
In Mr Giuliani's subsequent statement "intended to clarify" his remarks, he said: "There is no campaign violation.
"The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president's family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not."
He added: "My references to timing were not describing my understanding of the president's knowledge, but instead, my understanding of these matters."
Quote:Michael Avenatti, 3 May 2018
"Every American should be outraged... This should never be acceptable in our America. We will not rest until justice is served."
Give me a break already. What would this guy know? He didn't just win the biggest landslide election in the history of America - maybe even the world.
He's gotta be fu
cking her. No, she's fu
cking
him. Quote:Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's legal aide, 7 June 2018
"A woman who sells her body for sexual exploitation, I don't respect".
You go, Rudy. They used to call him America's mayor, did you know that?
Quote:Michael Avenatti, the porn star's lawyer, responded by calling Mr Giuliani an "absolute pig".
Yeah? But he's the Don's pig, don't ever forget it.
Quote:Donald Trump, speaking in secret recording from September 2016, broadcast on 25 July 2018
Mike: I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David (from the National Enquirer).
Don: So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?
Mike: We'll have to pay.
Don: ...Pay in cash?
Mike: No, no, no...
Hang on, what was Mike doing taping their conversations? That's a crime, right?
Quote:Michael Cohen, pleading guilty to electoral finance violations, 21 August 2018
"I participated in this conduct with the purpose of influencing the election."
Cohen told a court in New York that he had in fact paid hush money to two women, believed to be Ms Daniels and Ms McDougal, and had done so "at the direction" of Mr Trump.
Mike's talking out of his ass, Mr Trump never trusted the man.
You find this stuff out in hindsight. Another disgruntled former employee
Quote:Donald Trump, speaking in interview, 23 August July 2018
"Later on I knew."
Mr Trump admitted that the hush money paid by Cohen was his own but argued that the law had not been broken because it had not come out of his campaign funds.
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