Donald Trump has repeatedly denied an affair with Stormy Daniels and attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump has also attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. We trace his explanations in a timeline.
Here is a timeline of statements by Trump and his spokespersons or lawyers about the Stormy Daniels case.it was"absolutely, unequivocally" false that Trump and Daniels had had a relationship.revealed that Cohen arranged for Daniels to receive $130,000 in exchange for her silence.
Separately, Cohen provided a two-paragraph statement — addressed to"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN" and ostensibly signed by Daniels — denying the affair.Daniels has also contradicted herself about whether an affair occurred. However, she has Cohen told The New York Times he made a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission after a government watchdog filed a complaint alleging the payment was an in-kind contribution to Trump’s presidential campaign that violated campaign finance laws.
Giuliani:"Having something to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000, I mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. That money was not campaign money, sorry, I'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. It's not campaign money. No campaign finance violation. So —"Giuliani:"Funneled it through a law firm, and the president repaid it."Giuliani later suggested Trump reimbursed Cohen through installments paid to the attorney’s legal retainer.
"Some time after the campaign is over, they set up a reimbursement, $35,000 a month, out of his personal family account," Giuliani said, adding that Trump paid Cohen some $470,000 through the payments, which included"incidental expenses."acknowledging the arrangement with Cohen and again denying the affair:
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