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Giuliani is spin spin spinning to save his neck: First: There is no campaign violation. The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the President’s family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not. Second: My references to timing were not describing my understanding of the …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump said Friday his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is “a great guy” and “he’ll get his facts straight.” “He’s learning the subject matter. He’s going to be issuing a statement, too,” Trump said of the former New York City mayor, on the White House South Lawn. “He started yesterday. He’ll get his facts straight.” Once he …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump crowed Friday morning that “NBC NEWS is wrong again” after the network was forced to issue a correction on reporting that initially said Trump’s longtime personal attorney had been the subject of a federal wiretap. NBC News issued both on-air and online corrections to state that Michael Cohen, the attorney at the center of efforts …

Just in from hate group leader Tony Perkins: After eight back-breaking years, you can’t blame people for being skeptical about Donald Trump’s promise to pull religious liberty out of Obama’s trash heap. After all, most Christians had emerged from the last two terms like veterans of a war, bruised and traumatized. For the first time, they’d seen an American president …

Newsweek reports: The husband of a top White House counselor to President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday a Federal Election Commission law pertaining to gifts and loans to candidates. The tweet came following the revelation that Trump had repaid his personal lawyer the money given to an adult film actress for her silence about a brief affair. George Conway, spouse to …

The Washington Examiner reports: The lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels said the American people have been “lied to” after Rudy Giuliani claimed President Trump repaid his personal lawyer Michael Cohen the $130,000 he gave to Daniels as part of an agreement for her silence about her alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago. “I have to tell …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham said President Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani contradicted Trump’s claims that he didn’t know about his personal attorney Michael Cohen’s payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, calling the conflicting statements “a problem.” “Did Trump pay it after April 6th?” Ingraham asked, the day Trump denied knowing about the payment. “The left …

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump tried to clean up the mess from Rudy Giuliani’s self-immolation on Fox News in a series of Thursday morning tweets. Giuliani, who joined Trump’s legal team last month, admitted to Fox News host Sean Hannity that the president had repaid $130,000 to longtime attorney Michael Cohen for a hush money payout to porn actress …

The New York Post reports: President Donald Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani says the president repaid attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump had told reporters that he was not aware of the payment and that he didn’t know where Cohen had gotten the money. Giuliani made the revelation during an appearance on Fox …

ABC News reports: The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions about whether the Trump campaign may have violated campaign finance laws. Federal Election Commission records show three payments made from the Trump campaign to a …

The Hill reports: Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Trump in addition to her ongoing one against his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted Monday that his client has filed the lawsuit for Trump’s “irresponsible and defamatory statements” about Daniels, whom Cohen paid $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement weeks …

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Friday delayed a lawsuit by porn actress Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump and his personal attorney. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, asked for the delay after FBI agents raided his home and office earlier this month. The FBI was seeking records about a nondisclosure agreement Daniels signed days before the 2016 presidential election. …

Politico digs into this morning’s scream-a-thon: President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to distance himself from longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen, claiming the New York attorney currently under federal criminal investigation is “really a businessman” who handles only “a tiny, tiny little fraction” of his legal work. “Let me just tell you, Michael is in business — he is really …

Multiple outlets are reporting that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will plead the Fifth Amendment “in connection with all proceedings” in the Stormy Daniels case. Cohen asserted his protection against self-incrimination in a filing with the California district court hearing the porn star’s defamation lawsuit. The Hill reports: “Based on the advice of counsel, I will assert my 5th amendment rights …

Bloomberg reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter. By contrast, Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that’s now led …

“There’s no question that Michael Cohen knows where many, many bodies are buried. They’re going to turn him, and when they turn him, the president is going to be in a very, very bad place. And I’m going to make a prediction now. I do not think the president will serve out his term.” – Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, …

The Scotsman reports: Donald Trump has retweeted a woman from Lanark convicted of stealing thousands of pounds from a community group, in the latest example of the president’s unpredictable social media behaviour. Mr Trump shared a message from Sheena Fox – a vocal supporter of America’s commander-in-chief – which casts doubt on the veracity of a threat claim made by …

USA Today reports: President Trump prepared for the second day of a Japan summit by tweeting Wednesday about Stormy Daniels, mocking the new police sketch of a man she says threatened her in 2011. Trump’s comment accompanied the re-tweet of a Twitter user — “Deplorably Scottish” — who said the sketch resembled Daniels’ ex-husband. Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, …

Moments ago Stormy Daniels and her lawyer Michael Avenatti appeared on The View where they displayed a “composite sketch” of the man who allegedly threatened to murder Daniels if she didn’t stop talking about her affair with Glorious Leader. After showing the sketch, Avenatti announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the man’s identification. Avenatti also provided an email …

ABC News reports: A federal judge rejected a request from President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a temporary restraining order that would have kept federal prosecutors from reading files seized in raids last week. Judge Kimba Wood said a government taint team can weed out privileged documents, but she left open the possibility an independent third …