LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 for expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to a financial disclosure form released Wednesday [5-16-18]. The document did not explicitly state what the payments were for. But Trump’s lawyers have previously said that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels has alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, a claim he denies…Trump submitted the document on Tuesday [5-15-18], the deadline for administration employees to file their financial documents. The agency reviewed the form and made it public on Wednesday. Trump’s representatives said in the document that revealing the payments made to Cohen was not necessary by law, instead saying they were listing them ‘in the interest of transparency.'”
-Kevin Liptak, “Trump discloses payment to Cohen in financial form,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 16, 2018 2:06 pm