President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has exposed Trump in an interview with the NeW York Times on Tuesday stating that he once paid a porn star who had had an affair with Trump $130,000 of his own money.
Michael Cohen, an attorney also added he has not been paid back for the payment to the Stephani Clifford, stage name Stormy Daniels.
Cohen stated the payment was legal and would not answer why he had decided to make it.
“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,” Cohen said, according to the Times.
“The payment to Ms Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.”
Media tabloids have revealed that the payment was made a month before the November 2016 election.
The encounter happened in 2006 when Trump was a private citizen when the . However Trump was married to Melania who had birthed a son for him not up to four months earlier.
Trump through his lawyers and Clifford have both denied the encounter.
However In an article from an interview with Daniels in 2011 published in Touch magazine last month, it goes to great length describing a relationship with Trump in what she called “Textbook Generic” sex.