Also breaking news Thursday, there were reports about a possible wiretap between the White House and Cohen.
Cohen is under investigation by the FBI, which raided his home and office last month and seized documents that included information about the payment to Daniels. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his home and office several weeks ago seeking records about the nondisclosure agreement.
“What they did was pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels to stop her from going public right before the election, because they were afraid it was going to hurt (Trump’s) chances in the election”, Noble said.
The changing accounts about the president, the payment and the pornography actress came as a surprise to the attorneys of Clifford and Cohen and are forcing some of Trump’s advisers to prepare for a new round of questions from the public. “Were you lying to us at the time, or were you in the dark?”
There was one White House official who managed to come up with a more professional way to convey what it’s like for staffers to realize that they’re now subject to the whims of two celebrities who could call in to Fox News and start ranting at any moment.
1 NEWS’ US Correspondent Rebecca Wright has the latest from NY. His election expressed the degradation of American bourgeois politics and the entire political system. Alternately, an indictment could become part of an impeachment effort should the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections. But he did it in a staggeringly clumsy way that implicated Trump himself.
That could open the door for prosecutors to attempt to prove that Trump “knowingly and willfully” prompted his campaign committee to file incomplete disclosures with the FEC, the experts said.
White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who is dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russian Federation, is leaving his position and being replaced by Emmet Flood, the attorney who represented former president Bill Clinton during his impeachment proceedings.
He says Mr Trump was not a party to the transaction.
These are the methods of palace coup, without the slightest democratic or progressive content. So the Trump campaign at that moment was reeling from a sexual misconduct scandal.
The White House issues a statement calling the Journal’s story “old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election”.
No one on team Trump was informed of this shift.
“We have a new new bombshell in the Stormy Daniels Hussia investigation, thanks to former NY mayor and current Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani“.
Baran, however, offered caution about drawing too many conclusions. It was revealed that Mueller has warned that he can serve the president with a grand jury subpoena if Trump does not agree to a voluntary interview. His replacement, Emmet Flood of the powerhouse Williams & Connolly firm, represented Bill Clinton in his battle against impeachment.
Flood has been described in the press as a “wartime consigliere”. “So the legal strategy is now fight, fight, fight”.
Sanders said she learned that Trump had reimbursed Cohen only during the Wednesday night bombshell Giuliani interview.
“If anything, the facts surrounding Mr. Edwards were arguably more campaign-related than what is happening today”, Baran said.
The question roiling Washington, ever since Giuliani disclosed the stunner late Wednesday, is “Why?” Giuliani told The New York Times he had documentation proving Trump had reimbursed the sum, which he said “removes the campaign finance violation” prospect.
In a stunning turnaround, Mr Trump confessed on Friday (Thursday night local time) that he reimbursed his lawyer Michael Cohen $US130,000 for a payment to Ms Daniels for her silence over an alleged affair in 2006.