Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he paid Stormy Daniels $130k from his personal home equity line

Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen sent $130,000 to Stormy Daniels by transferring money from his home equity line, ABC News reports.

“The funds were taken from my home equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank.”

Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Daniels, provided emails to ABC News to prove Cohen used his Trump Organization email to facilitate a payout to Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election.

Avenatti said Cohen’s use of the email proves Trump was aware of the payout.

"We're one step closer to demonstrating that the assertion by Cohen and the White House that President Trump knew nothing about this is ridiculous," Avenatti said.

In a statement to ABC News, Cohen said Daniels’ attorney “has clearly allowed his 15 minutes of fame to affect his ludicrous conclusions”

“ The earth-shattering uncovered email between myself and the bank corroborates all my previous statements; which is I transferred money from one account at that bank into my LLC and then wired said funds to Ms. Clifford’s attorney in Beverly Hills, California. How Mr. Avenatti or the media at large believes this to be ‘breaking news’ is a mystery to me,” Cohen said.

Cohen—when asked where the money came from—told ABC News, “the funds were taken from my home equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank.”