Twitter Blows Up Over New Report on Trump Lawyer Paying Stormy Daniels: ‘Just for Kicks’?

Twitter predictably went nuts over the return of Stormy Daniels into the news cycle.

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is now claiming that he paid Daniels the $130,000––but isn’t giving much more information than that––out of his out pocket, a claim that’s being met with varying degrees of astonishment and skepticism:

"Hi, it's me, the lawyer to the president who paid a porn star $130,000 out of my own pocket for reasons I won't explain. I assume there will be no further questions." https://t.co/f3xWlDWxmw

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 14, 2018

This seems credible, LOL – they’re all so honest so why wouldn’t we believe him. ? https://t.co/DIry5LdU3r

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) February 14, 2018

It'd be a complete abdication of congressional oversight authority if an investigation into this Stormy Daniels payoff isn't immediately announced. https://t.co/1yuYqUsEIM

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) February 14, 2018

Cohen, not very convincingly, claims he just did this on his own with his own money. Just for kicks I guess. https://t.co/0nfEgqlFqQ

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 14, 2018

Fine yourself someone who loves you enough to pay $130,000 out of his own pocket without your knowledge to make a problem go away. Extra love points if it’s your lawyer. https://t.co/WoHW76EFhM

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) February 14, 2018

“Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me." https://t.co/KTNr69BLPt

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 14, 2018

Listen, I’m not a lawyer, but do they usually cover a client’s settlements out of their own pocket and without that client’s knowledge? https://t.co/G1n3yakK71

— Adam Smith (@asmith83) February 14, 2018

Just a personal lawyer making an unexplained $130,000 out of pocket payment to a porn star.

Nothing to see here!https://t.co/0v13d0uXmG

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 14, 2018

This seems like a tacit admission. https://t.co/697MObcHpq

— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 14, 2018

On the up and up https://t.co/jxe5iTHEXT

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) February 14, 2018

Also… why on earth would you claim this? It’s both totally unbelievable and would utterly fail to put the story to rest even if people *did* believe it. https://t.co/P0lWbpLGDe

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) February 14, 2018

you're never getting that money back pal https://t.co/yGM7UDGTRM

— Muscular Baby (@Mobute) February 14, 2018

Sometimes one guy has his lawyer pay his adult actress paramour $130K in hush money after she spanks him with a magazine that has his face on it and the lawyer does it and is never reimbursed

You know…just normal dude stuff https://t.co/oKWapFgTVr

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) February 14, 2018

Just a normal thing that a normal person does for normal, non-cover-up reasons. https://t.co/3AZRStr8sC

— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) February 14, 2018

Has he paid any other porn stars six figures for no particular reason? https://t.co/jVWkhQx9bE

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) February 14, 2018

We live in the dumbest timeline. https://t.co/c3eEz5ihY2

— Calvin (@calvinstowell) February 14, 2018

He decided to pay off a porn star who claims she slept with the president out of the goodness of his heart? ? https://t.co/lXNLVFF60v

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 14, 2018

Michael Cohen doesn't seem like a very good lawyer

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) February 14, 2018

lol Michael Cohen says he made the payment out of his own pocket yeah right https://t.co/eBUue7PvEK

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 14, 2018

Michael Cohen had told friends privately in the initial aftermath of the news of his role in the Stormy Daniels payment was, and I quote, “bullshit” and “fake news.” He is admitting to Maggie here that he was lying to close friends. Surprise! https://t.co/f10XZSeZkT

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) February 14, 2018

Me yesterday: That Stormy Daniels story disappeared pretty quickly – surprising given how incompetent this White House is.

Michael Cohen (Trump's lawyer) admitting today he paid her $130,000 to the New York Times: pic.twitter.com/ysv1ROj8Tn

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) February 14, 2018

if the Porter fiasco doesn’t go away fast Michael Cohen is gonna call CNN and kidnap a hooker on live TV

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 14, 2018

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