Cohen and the White House sidestep questions about the payment but deny an affair between Daniels and Trump ever took place. “This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client," Cohen tells the Journal. “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” he says. March 28: David Schwartz, an attorney for Cohen, tells CNN that Trump was completely unaware of the payment. Trump weighs in: ‘I don’t know’April 5: Trump flatly tells reporters he did not know about the $130,000 payment.

Source: Washington Post August 23, 2018 00:56 UTC