LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday [5-4-18], and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. ‘And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s been covered wrong by the press,’ Mr. Trump said. Mr. Giuliani, who joined Mr. Trump’s legal team last month, ‘just started a day ago,’ Mr. Trump said, speaking to reporters on Friday as he left Washington to attend a National Rifle Association convention in Dallas. ‘He is a great guy,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘He’ll get his facts straight.’ It was the first time the president addressed the inconsistent narrative about the payment made by his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels…Mr. Trump’s remarks capped a week of evolving facts surrounding the Oval Office.”
-Eileen Sullivan, Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler, “Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels,” The New York Times online, May 4, 2018