Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
MIS-UNABBREVIATED
Jan. 12, 2018
News reports reveal that Cohen arranged the deal to pay Clifford $130,000 during the campaign and that a contract amendment identifies Clifford as Peggy Peterson and Trump as David Dennison.
Cohen responds in a statement, “These rumors have circulated time and again since 2011. President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms. Daniels,” and forwards a denial from Clifford. A White House official says, “These are old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied before the election.”
Feb. 13, 2018
Cohen tells The Times that he paid the $130,000 to Clifford out of his own pocket, adding that neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed him.
The implication: Cohen struck the deal with Clifford on his own and without the knowledge of the president. The watchdog group Common Cause alleges that Cohen’s payment was in effect a campaign contribution made to help protect Trump from negative news toward the end of his campaign; individual donations to candidates were limited to $5,400 per election cycle in 2016.
March 6, 2018
Clifford files a lawsuit, and reveals that Cohen took her to arbitration to secure a restraining order to silence her, which her lawyer declares invalid because Trump never signed the contract.
March 7, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, says, “There was no knowledge of any payments from the president,” adding, “I’ve had conversations with the president about this.” She says, “He has denied all these allegations.”
March 9, 2018
Cohen provides a detailed account of the payment to Clifford, describing where the money used for the payment came from. “The funds were taken from my home equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank,” he said.
Cohen repeats his statement that he was not reimbursed by either the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign.
April 5, 2018
Reporters on Air Force One ask Trump if he knew about the
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1 Projects
5 Nowhere close
11 First name on the Supreme
Court
15 Delight
18 Supercollider bit
19 Online tracker
20 Country whose capital lent its name to a fabric
“____ reading too much into this?”
22 Meadows filled with loos?
25 Originally
26 Bar that might be dangerous
27 Ax
28 Be agreeable
30 Negligent
35 Old letter opener
37 Blotto
38 Where sailors recover from
their injuries?
42 No longer edible
43 Square figure
44 Actor Paul of “There Will Be
Blood”
45 Lead-in to -tainment
46 Quashes
48 Chart again
50 Checkpoint offense, for short
52 Gusto
55 Goings-on in accelerated
classes?
61 “My man”
62 Subject for The Source
magazine
63 Sch. of 30,000+ on the
Mississippi
64 Bill’s support
65 It dethroned Sophia as the No. 1 baby girl’s name in the U.S. in 2014
67 Home for a Roman emperor
69 Onetime Bond girl ____
Wood
71 “So obvious!”
74 Common core?
75 Like
76 Prime-time time
80 Dog that doesn’t offend
people?
87 Come down hard, as hail
88 Barnyard male
89 First name on the Supreme
Court
90 Dreyfus Affair figure
91 Subject for Ken Burns, briefly 21 93 Burg
96 Went by air?
99 Dorm monitors
100 Cry of devotion from a nonacademy student?
105 Source of the line “They shall beat their swords into plowshares”
106 Things that may be rolled
or wild
107 Soprano Tebaldi
108 Some fasteners
110 They aid in diagnosing A.C.L.
tears
112 Funny face?
116 Old White House nickname
117 Morning-zoo programming?
123 Panama City state: Abbr.
124 Substantive
125 “Don’t doubt me!”
126 Clue
127 Divinity sch.
128 Chatty bird
129 Provider of aerial football
views
130 Actress Kendrick 1
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Best Picture nominee with three sequels
2 Pac-12 school that’s not really
near the Pacific
3 Completely, after “in”
4 Like wet makeup
5 Media watchdog grp.
6 Parent co. of HuffPost
7 Hundred Acre Wood denizen
8 Agrees to
9 Lord’s domain
10 Fixation
11 Slice for a Reuben
12 Things that have slashes
13 With nothing out of place
14 “What other explanation is
there?!”
15 Former “Today” show host
16 Word before pan or after
Spanish
17 Investment figures
20 GMC truck
23 Like poor months for oysters,
it’s said
24 Mentally wiped
29 Stiff
31 Sch. with an annual Mystery
Hunt
32 Words of compassion 33 Stuffed
34 Weak period
36 “Fifty Shades of Grey”
subject, briefly
38 Symbol of China
39 Onetime Blu-ray rival
40 Blue-green
41 Albright’s successor as
secretary of state
42 Craft-shop item
47 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer,
1985
49 Combo bets
51 Absolutely harebrained
53 Astonishment
54 Cryptanalysis org.
56 Queens player, for short
57 Pledge
58 ____ Poly
59 Green org.
60 Caesar dressing?
66 Some neckwear 67 Italy’s ____ d’Orcia
68 Laid up
70 Second U.S. feature-length computer-animated movie, after “Toy Story”
71 Modern subject of reviews
72 Row maker
73 Elite court group
77 Ecuadorean coastal province
known for its gold
78 Micronesian land
79 Some future execs
81 Inclined to stress?
82 Bygone gas brand with a
torch in its logo
83 Druid’s head cover
84 Studio sign
85 Ransack
86 Boca ____
92 2007 female inductee into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
94 Hex 95 Our, in Tours
97 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” girl
98 Stave off
100 Rice dishes
101 Of service
102 Gore’s successor as vice
president
103 Green-skinned god of the
underworld
104 Harley-Davidson competitor
109 “____ Against Evil” (IFC
series)
111 Totally awesome, in slang
113 Role in “Thor,” 2011
114 Islamic spirit
115 Second letter after 118-Down
118 Second letter before 115Down
119 Word with camp or care
120 L.L.C. alternative
121 That: Sp.
122 Dr. ____