Vox Sentences: “Big Mouth” Rudy Giuliani H

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Vox Sentences: “Big Mouth” Rudy Giuliani

Hired to do damage control, Rudy Giuliani is just doing damage

By Ella Nilsenella.nilsen@vox.com May 3, 2018, 8:00pm EDT



•Last night, Rudy Giuliani went on Sean Hannity’s Fox show and let slip a very, very interesting detail. And so began the latest snafu in the Trump White House. [BuzzFeed / Hazel Shearing]

•Giuliani said that Trump paid back his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money Cohen had paid porn actress Stormy Daniels. (Daniels says this money was to keep her quiet
about a Trump affair; Trump denies the affair ever took place). [NYT]

•Trump paid Cohen back the $130,000 and then some; he reportedly paid Cohen $460,000 from a personal family account, Giuliani said. This directly contradicts claims Trump made that he had no knowledge of the Daniels payment. [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

•Trump, per usual, went on Twitter on Thursday to spout some legalese and specify that Cohen never received money from the Trump campaign to stop “false” claims by Daniels about the affair. [Donald Trump via Twitter]

•The revelations from Giuliani sent the White House into full damage control mode. It seemed that Giuliani was trying to bat away speculation that Cohen was paid with campaign funds (an obvious campaign finance law violation), but he opened up a bunch more questions that the White House definitely wasn’t commenting on Thursday. [Politico / Louis Nelson and Josh Gerstein]

•So just how bad is this for Trump legally? It gives investigators more questions to look into, and more proof that Trump has trouble with the truth. [Vox / Sean Illing]

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