Article snippet: MORE on Thursday defended hush money paid to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, saying he reimbursed his personal attorney through a retainer that had “nothing to do with the campaign.” Trump in a series of tweets said his attorney, Michael Cohen, received a monthly retainer “from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.” The president said the Daniels agreement “was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair." Contradicting past claims that he knew nothing about the payment, Trump said such arrangements “are very common among celebrities and people of wealth.” Trump offered his most extensive comments to date about the payment one day after Rudy Giuliani, another Trump lawyer, said the president reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 he paid ahead of the 2016 presidential election in exchange for Daniels’s silence about the alleged sexual encounter. Giuliani’s comments were at odds with Trump’s prior statements that he had no knowledge of the payment by Cohen and did not know the source of the money. During an interview late Wednesday with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Giuliani said the payment was “funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it.” The former New York City mayor said Trump did not know about the specifics of the payment, but did have general knowledge of the agreement. “He did know about the general arrangement, that Mich... Link to the full article to read more