Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen’s $130000 payment to Stormy Daniels, Giuliani says

Giuliani, for his part, said on Wednesday night that the payment is “going to turn out to be perfectly legal.”

“That money was not campaign money,” he said of Trump’s reimbursement to Cohen. “Sorry — I’m giving you a fact that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money — no campaign finance violation.”

Giuliani told The New York Times later Wednesday evening that after the presidential campaign, Cohen was reimbursed $460,000 or $470,000 in $35,000-a-month installments through a Trump family account for having “settled several problems” for the president.

Giuliani said he was “not clear” whether Trump was aware of the payments to Daniels when they were made, according to The Times.

“I don’t think he did [know] until now,” Giuliani said. “That removes the campaign finance violation, and we have all the documentary proof for it.”

In an interview with The Washington Post Wednesday night, Giuliani also said the president was “very pleased” that the former New York mayor had made public the additional details of the payments and that he and Trump had discussed the plan for the revelation in advance.

“He was well-aware that at some point when I saw the opportunity, I was going to get this over with,” Giuliani said, responding to a question about whether Trump was “angry” with him for the revelation.

Meanwhile, Norm Eisen, chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a nonprofit group that has filed a complaint with the Justice Department over the payment to Daniels, suggested Wednesday night on Twitter that Trump still may have broken the law “by failing to disclose the loan from Cohen on his federal presidential financial disclosures.”