Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani talks with reporters at Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 12, 2017. That outline looks like this: Trump paid Cohen a retainer of $35,000 a month (Post interview) despite Cohen’s “doing no work for the president” (“Hannity” on Wednesday night). In total, Cohen was paid at least $460,000 from Trump’s “personal family account” (Times). It is possible, yes, but it would be unusual.” Especially, we’ll note, if Cohen was on retainer without doing any work, as Giuliani stated. One can theorize that Trump and Giuliani wanted to publicly argue that Cohen had been repaid but had only the retainer payments documenting flow from Trump to Cohen.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2018 15:36 UTC