Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims that HE was the one who paid off Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket. Yeah, okay. Update!

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a pornographic-film actress who had once claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump. 

In the most detailed explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, Mr. Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said he was not reimbursed for the payment. 

“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement to The New York Times. “The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.” 

He declined to answer several follow-up questions, including whether Mr. Trump had been aware that Mr. Cohen made the payment, why he made the payment or whether he had made similar payments to other people over the years.

Pop quiz.

Have any of you ever hired a lawyer?

And if you did, was there EVER a time that the lawyer offered to pay for something on your behalf without billing you for it later.

I have only hired a lawyer a few times in my life, but in my experience they are all about billable hours.

So you can bet your house that if Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels, he recouped those losses with his next retainer.

And taking this a step further does ANYBODY believe that Trump, who is notorious for not paying his workers, is willing to pay shut up money to somebody that he does not desperately need to shut up?

No, this is obviously bullshit.

And the fact that they are spinning it so hard means that this story is terrifying them.

P.S. By the way, Cohen is also shopping a supposedly "tell all" book that he claims will set the record straight, and to rebut the Michael Wolff book.

Which means the flood of bullshit is just beginning.

Update!

Cohen says Trump campaign was not "a party to the transaction." But that's not the law. If $130k hush money payment to Stormy Daniels was made "in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate’s campaign," it violated fed election law. https://t.co/ytfPHiwv5T

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 14, 2018

Aha!