Rudy Giuliani confirms Trump repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels hush money

Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen $ 130,000 he had given to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election to buy her silence over an alleged affair with the then US presidential candidate, one of the president's lawyers said on Thursday.

Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a recent addition to President Trump's legal team dealing with the Russian investigation, let out the bombshell detail during an interview on Fox News.

The disclosure contradicts Trump's own firm statement, made on Air Force One in April, that he had no knowledge of his private lawyer Michael Cohen having paid Daniels the $130,000 sum.

"That money was not campaign money. It's not campaign money. No campaign finance violation," Giuliani said.

He said that the money was funnelled through the law firm and the President repaid him.

"He (Trump) paid him back. No campaign finance violations, no crime of any kind. Michael had the discretion to solve these," Giuliani told The Wall Street Journal in another interview.