Michael Cohen’s Fmr. Attorney: He Didn’t Actually Believe the Stormy Daniels Allegation

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STEUBE: “Obviously, when we started to talk about the NDAs -- and this is the very first meeting at the Regency Hotel, when, by the way, Rudy Giuliani was not involved in representing Donald Trump at that time. Cohen testified that it was a conspiracy between Giuliani and Costello as of this date -- totally false. In any event, he also said that he didn't discuss the Stormy Daniels matter with us. And he certainly did. I specifically asked him, because he kept on going back saying, 'I can't believe they're trying to put me in jail for these NDAs.' So I said, 'Michael, tell me about the NDA. Tell me about Stormy Daniels. What did you do?' He said, 'I got a call from -- from a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, who represented that she was going to testify that Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels.' Michael Cohen said, 'I didn't believe the allegation, but I knew that such an allegation would be terribly embarrassing.' He said, it would be embarrassing. He focused on Melania Trump. He said, 'I didn't want to embarrass Melania Trump.' He said, 'That's why I decided to take care of this on my own.'“