Giuliani: What if Daniels allegations came out during 2016 election?

[DonViejo]

By LOUIS NELSON 05/03/2018 08:47 AM EDT

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the president’s 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 News’s “Fox & Friends” of the $130,000 payment made by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s 2016 campaign. The newly installed member of Trump’s 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

[Arkansas Granny]

1. We would be saying "Madam President" right about now. That's what if.

[EffieBlack]

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 you’re smarter than everybody else.

My first year law students were better at this than you are.

[asiliveandbreathe]

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"