{"id":8471,"date":"2018-05-03T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:44:12","slug":"trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/press\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Claims Open President to Criminal Prosecution in Stormy Daniels Case"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8471","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Rudy Giuliani tonight put President Trump in legal peril for \u201cknowing and willful\u201d violations of campaign finance law related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a., Stormy Daniels). Giuliani, as a member of President Trump\u2019s legal team, told Fox News tonight that President Trump repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen the $130,000 that Cohen had paid Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet just prior to the 2016 presidential general election.\r\n","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[137,149,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Statement of Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause Vice President for Policy and Litigation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\nRudy Giuliani tonight put President Trump in legal peril for \u201cknowing and willful\u201d violations of campaign finance law related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a., Stormy Daniels). Giuliani, as a member of President Trump\u2019s legal team, told Fox News tonight that President Trump repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen the $130,000 that Cohen had paid Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet just prior to the 2016 presidential general election.\r\n\r\nGiuliani seemingly thought he was doing President Trump a favor\u2014but instead made Trump\u2019s legal problems much, much worse. In January, Common Cause filed complaints with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Election Commission alleging that the Trump campaign violated campaign finance law disclosure requirements by failing to disclose Cohen\u2019s payment to Daniels as an expenditure. Americans have a right to know who\u2019s spending money to influence their votes on Election Day. Team Trump\u2019s failure to disclosure this payment violated this right and the law.\r\n\r\nPresident Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Cohen\u2019s payment and criminal prosecution can only be brought for \u201cknowing and willful\u201d violations of campaign finance laws. Giuliani\u2019s admission that Trump reimbursed Cohen amounts to an admission that Trump actually knew about the payment. In other words, Trump\u2019s own lawyer has now handed the DOJ evidence that President Trump committed criminal violations of federal law.\r\n\r\nGiuliani\u2019s statement tonight also makes clear how thoroughly and unflinchingly President Trump and his team have lied to the American people about just the Stormy Daniels case. These repeated denials call into question everything the President and his staff have said about his ties to Russia and his ongoing efforts to obstruct justice by attacking Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Claims Open President to Criminal Prosecution in Stormy Daniels Case - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/press-releases\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"vi_VN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Claims Open President to Criminal Prosecution in Stormy Daniels Case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/nhan\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-claims-open-president-to-criminal-prosecution-in-stormy-daniels-case\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Claims Open President to Criminal Prosecution in Stormy Daniels Case - 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