LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides are ‘panicking,’ the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels said Thursday [5-3-18] afternoon, and are ‘just making it up as they go along’ as they deal with Trump’s mounting legal challenges. Rudy Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team last month, disclosed Wednesday [5-2-18] that the president had repaid his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen over the course of last year for a $130,000 payment made to Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement related to an alleged sexual affair with Trump. That statement ran counter to Trump’s comment last month that he did not know about the payment, and to Cohen’s claim that he was never reimbursed for it…Avenatti predicted that the new disclosures from Giuliani could further legal issues for Trump’s aides and other allies, including money laundering, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. The payment to Daniels is reportedly already the subject of a federal investigation after the FBI executed a search warrant from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York against Cohen’s office and residences.”
-Louis Nelson, “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer: Trump and his aides are ‘panicking’,” Politico, May 3, 2018 1:35 pm