Michael Avenatti, an attorney and spokesman for Daniels, and David Schwartz, an attorney for Cohen, spent nearly a half-hour trading insults and accusations and waving their hands at each other. “You’re a very passionate guy on behalf of your client, Michael Cohen,” Avenatti told Schwartz. In Tuesday’s CNN segment, Schwartz told Cooper that Trump was a third-party beneficiary to the agreement and that Cohen had acted on his own accord. Schwartz called Avenatti’s view of the agreement “absurd” and again said Daniels would be on the hook for a lot of money. Cohen has acknowledged that he personally paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and said he was not reimbursed by the Trump campaign.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2018 10:05 UTC