Chris Christie and Dan Abrams Talk Trump’s Latest Denials of Stormy Affair: It ‘Makes Even Less Sense’
Mediaite founder and ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams and ABC contributor Chris Christie reacted on Thursday to President Trump‘s tweets denying his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels violated campaign finance laws.
The two appeared on ABC to talk about the conflicting stories Trump, Michael Cohen, and Rudy Giuliani have offered on reimbursements for the October 2016 Stormy Daniels hush money payments. Christie argued that Giuliani gave his bombshell interview last night to make public the repayment that would otherwise come out in news reports, and Abrams pointed out that Robert Mueller likely already knows everything regarding the Daniels payment.
“I think at this point they’re saying let’s get this out there so when it comes out later — just as Chris says — where it’s not going to be a surprise or news, let’s just put as much out there as possible.”
The discussion soon moved on to Trump’s latest statement insisting Cohen didn’t break campaign finance laws with the Daniels payoff. Christie said that a lawsuit against Trump and Cohen on this front would be a “weak case,” though Abrams said there’s a significant question of whether the Daniels payment was done to help Trump’s campaign or his family life.
“By the way, he’s still denying he even had an affair with Stormy Daniels,” Abrams noted, referring to the president’s morning tweets. “So its sort of shocking this morning we’re seeing in the tweets that he’s still denying the affair, yet he’s admitting he repaid Michael Cohen now for the amount through Rudy Giuliani.
“So to some degree the entire story makes even less sense.”
From there, the two continued to talk with George Stephanopoulos about Trump’s legal vulnerabilities and the new strategy he’s likely to take with his new team of attorneys.
Watch above, via ABC.
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