Stormy Daniels Crashes SNL in the Biggest Cold Open of the Season

Mr. Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 in October 2016 using a shell company, and said he paid Daniels with his own money.

However, Giuliani said in an interview Wednesday night on Fox News that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the “so-called hush” payment made to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, applauds at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy at the Grand Hyatt on Saturday in Washington.

Either way, Giuliani said it’s time for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to shut down Mueller’s investigation.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One several weeks ago, Trump said he did not know about the payment or where the money came from. “I don’t know. How do you separate fact and opinion?” If he’s not even willing to say it now, why should we believe he would do it then? “That’s why these people who think they’re chasing this down are involved in the same witch hunt that Judge Ellis was so concerned about with (ex-FBI director) Robert Mueller“, he said.

As the real Daniels answers the phone, the audience cheers and Trump asks Daniels what she’s wearing, much to the apparent dismay of his attorney. Most people of means, most people of wealth and celebrity, they don’t have extramarital affair slush funds and the suggestion is insulting.

He also defended Trump’s ability to pardon people while saying that a pardon for Michael Cohen, the president’s lawyer, “has not been discussed”.

Giuliani continued to push back against arguments made by Daniels’ attorney and other government watchdog groups, who accuse the Trump campaign of violating federal campaign finance laws by not reporting the payment on Trump’s campaign finance documents.

When it was pointed out to him that those were his own words he was dismissing, Mr Giuliani said, “right now I’m at the point where I’m learning”. He said the raid on Cohen’s office and home and publication by the New York Times of a list of possible questions Mueller’s team wants to ask Trump – a list said to be compiled by Trump’s legal team – lessened the chances that Trump would voluntarily agree to be interviewed for the probe.

On Sunday, in an exclusive interview on “This Week”, Stephanopoulos asked Giuliani if Trump learned about the payment to Daniels after Election Day in 2016. He told CNN on Thursday that the announcement of Trump’s repayment of the hush money was a planned strategy, saying: “You won’t see daylight between me and the president”.

The uncertainty regarding whether Trump will sit for an interview with Mueller, which has played out both in public comments made by the president and his legal team as well as behind-the-scenes wrangling, could ultimately make its way to the Supreme Court if it is not resolved.

In the sketch, Stiller’s Cohen is attempting to do damage control and finally get the White House’s story straight about Stormy Daniels-though it seems the cast members are stuck in a never-ending game of telephone-all while a pair of stunned F.B.I. agents listen in. “He’s the President of the United States”, Mr Giuliani said.

We know that Ivanka Trump was present when Donald Trump fired James Comey.