Trump lawyer Michael Cohen: I paid Stormy out of my own pocket

Does Trump have even one competent attorney working for him?

Sure, just like that friend of John Edwards was the one who had the affair with Rielle.

I was thinking the same thing -- I have a law degree and and have retained my license. However, I have not practiced law in the past 20 years and would never feel I could competently represent anyone, but even I know enough to see that half of the things his attorneys do are inept. I am guessing he is not the easiest client and the combination of his reputation for being a megalomaniac and also for stiffing people, many of the top notch attorneys are going to stay far away from his toxicity.

It's very believable. He paid $130,000 for his client and was never reimbursed. I wish I had a lawyer like that! It was so incidental, he must have taken it out of the petty cash fund used to buy postage stamps.

Trump probably promised to pay him back, but you know how that goes.

ya, I believe that....

Did he get a go on that famous puss in exchange for all that cash?

That was so nice of his attorney to pay her. Did it all go for her tits?

R E C E I P T S !

And he paid her this money for WHY??

Wow!

Sounds like Stormy could have gotten a lot more. Poor dummy. What's $130,000 in L.A.- a year's rent, a boob lift and a gently-used car?

Did she pay tax on it?

Michael Cohen's face is what you'd see if you opened the dictionary to "pedophile"

I believe she lives in Texas.

He's her pimp.

But he's Trump's bitch.

How is this helpful? It can still be argued that the $130,000 was an in-kind campaign contribution by anyone with a head! Cohen is a major dipshit.

Umm Trump did not fuck Story at all. It was more like she put on a strap on and fucked him!

I meant Stormy

This is so deliciously rich.

What will Mika say in a few hours?

Some of Trumps friends are every bit as nasty and shitty as he is.

Did they all gangbang Stormy? Why in the world would I pay for my client's affair without getting reimbursed?

Can someone explain to me the significance of this fact? Is he supporting Trump or undermining him?

They have been denying the affair, R23. Why does his dumbass lawyer now admit that he paid the money when they initially denied that the affair ever happened. Remember the "signed statements" from Stormy Daniels that sounded like Trump had written them and that had different signatures which didn't match?

What a shitshow this "Unpresidency" is. If only 16 intelligence agencies had warned us that a reality TV star compromised by Russia wasn't going to be a good choice for the highest office in the country!

That's mighty white of him. I had to cash in my investments to pay the Paula Jones settlement.

Porn star who alleged Trump affair: I can now tell my story

NEW YORK (AP) — Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom President Donald Trump’s personal attorney acknowledged paying $130,000 just before Election Day, believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with Trump, her manager told The Associated Press Wednesday.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, believes that Trump attorney Michael Cohen invalidated a non-disclosure agreement after two news stories were published Tuesday: One, in which Cohen told The New York Times that he made the six-figure payment with his personal funds, and another in the Daily Beast, which reported that Cohen was shopping a book proposal that would touch on Daniels’ story, said the manager, Gina Rodriguez.

[quote]I paid Stormy out of my own pocket

Poor crazy thing!

I think he attended the University of Walmart Law School a la Idiocracy.

I’m an attorney who knows there are a lot dumb asses practicing law out there. But this takes the Dump Cake.

Cohen obtained his law degree at Trump University and graduated with great honors, or “MAGA scum fraud” as their call it.

He actually went to Thomas Cooley which Above The Law (a snarky law website) has deemed to be the worst of the worst:

Did Stormy say whether or not Trump paid her for the sex itself? I mean, $130,000 works out to about $40,000 per minute, so I'd hate to think he paid more on top of that.

He has never actually practiced law. His living consists of being Trump's bitch

What a tool!

He was a partner at Phillips Nizer.

Question for the lawyers out there: Wouldn't it have made more sense to "purchase her autobiography" with an advance of $130,000?

Doesn’t this just raise a BRIGHT RED flag that campaign finance fraud is going on vis-a-vis unreported donations. It’s basically exactly what Bunny Mellon and John Edwards did.

Of course he did and as Trump's lawyer he never lies.

R35, I think anyway you slice it, it ultimately still looks like a payoff.

Anyone directly associated with Trump contracting with Stormy Daniels = PAYOFF.

From Ted Lieu’s Twitter:

[quote] Legal standard for fed election law is not whether a person pays from personal funds. An in-kind contribution is any "expenditure made by any person in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate’s campaign." Cohen is in big trouble..

He is an attorney BTW...

This is all for the stupid Deplorables so they can say "Well, Donald had nothing to do with it, the lawyer got bamboozled by that skank because he believed her while Trump is totally innocent!"

As all pathological liars do, they lose the ability to craft a believable story. They really think people are going to believe that pile of bullshit.

only hire the best people...

She's ready to talk.

WOW, that's a smart ass whore

Haha, I can’t wait to hear what she has to say.

I want to suck Michael Cohen's big, fat, cut, Jewish cock.

When will this nightmare end?

Melania....humiliated once again.

R48, oh please! The woman gets humiliated twelve times a day on average.

Why do people stand by Trump?

That's what I keep wondering R50. He ultimately destroys everyone in his orbit.

Stormy Daniels pulled a Monica Lewinsky and held on to the dress she wore to an alleged hotel rendezvous with President Donald Trump, and now we are told she’s going to get it tested for DNA to back up her story.

Sources close to Daniels tell The Blast the shimmering gold mini dress with a plunging neckline was kept in pristine condition after her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump at the Lake Tahoe hotel suite.

We’re told Daniels is planning on having the dress forensically tested to search for any DNA that proves she isn’t lying about her tryst with Trump, including samples of skin, hair or … anything.

Apparently because babyfingers doesn't pay his bills, it's hard for him to get decent lawyers.

Michael Cohen, Stephen Miller, and Carter Page.

Well!

R53, why would Trump get a different lawyer when his current one apparently pays his bills?

The Deplorable Army is all over the internets saying "Relax... it's just sex". So much so that pundits feel sleazy and voyeuristic bringing it up.

Don't let them intimidate you, Media. Trump paid a sex worker (through a proxy) to keep quiet about a sexual liaison (probably where money was left on the dresser; do you think Stormy would fuck that for free?) so as not to interfere with his POTUS campaign.

"What constitutes a "contribution?". Besides checks and currency, the FEC considers "...anything of value given to influence a Federal election" to be a contribution."

So if they gave Stormy money to shut her up- thus benefitting his campaign- that could be considered an in-kind contribution.

God I hope it came out of the campaign coffers. We know Trump never paid it.

Trump. Can’t pay his own bills. But he makes everyone else his bitch.