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  February 13, 2018 10:08pm EST

  NYT: Trump's lawyer paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket

  President Trump's longtime personal lawyer paid $130,000 to a porn star over an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006, the New York Times reported.
  The Times' Maggie Haberman, who reported the story, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Michael Cohen claimed he paid porn star Stormy Daniels with money out of his own pocket.
  "It was money out of his own pocket — that it was not money from the campaign or money that was routed to him through some other fashion," she said.
  He made a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission after the group Common Cause filed a complaint about the "nature of the payment," Haberman said.
  Watch Haberman's interview: