Fox News Airs Flashback of Rudy Giuliani Saying Hush Money Payments Had Nothing to do With Campaign
In the flurry of news this afternoon regarding Michael Cohen‘s plea deal, and the revelation that he implicated “a candidate for federal office” in directing his activities paying women to remain silent about having affairs with Donald Trump, Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry played a clip with a timely reminder of current Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani‘s prior denial of wrongdoing.
“This is the first time you see anyone in the president’s orbit pleading guilty to charges directly involved in the 16 campaign,” Ed Henry noted, as he listed the details of the situation so far.
Henry was listing the potential problems arising for Trump from the admission. Among them, prior statements.
“Remember that this development really contradicts what his new personal attorney Rudy Giuliani told our own Sean Hannity back in May,” he said. “Remember that Giuliani said back then that the president made the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels but insisted it did not break any campaign finance laws.”
He then played the clip, where Giuliani said the payment would turn out to be “perfectly legal.”
“That money was not campaign money,’ said Giuliani at the time. “That money was not campaign money. I’m giving you a fact now that you don’t know.”
“It was funneled through a law firm, and then the president repaid it,” Giuliani said at the time.
In the above clip, Henry points out that it “stands in stark contrast to what we’re hearing from this courtroom here in New York City that this broke campaign finance laws.”
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