Ukraine paid for Prez meet

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S personal lawyer received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to arrange talks between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, according to a report Wednesday.

The hefty payment was made to Michael Cohen by intermediaries acting on behalf of Ukraine’s leader, Petro Poroshenko, the BBC reported.

Poroshenko (below, with President) met briefly with Trump at the White House last June.

The Ukrainian leader had described the Oval Office sitdown as part of a “substantial visit” while the White House called it a “drop-in.”

Sources told the BBC that the Ukraine’s registered lobbyists and embassy in Washington could only arrange a brief photo-op with Trump.

Poroshenko wanted something that could be portrayed as a “talk,” so Cohen was hired.

A former aide asked a Ukrainian politician for help in creating a backchannel into Trump’s orbit — which was established through connections at the Chabad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island, according to the report.

The link to Cohen was made in part by his longtime friend and Trump business associate Felix Sater, the BBC said.

Sater denied any involvement in the arrangement when asked by the Daily News.

Cohen and two Ukrainians who were said to have been involved told the BBC the story was bogus.

However, a second source told the network that Cohen was paid as much as $600,000 and the Ukrainians were unhappy with his lackluster results.

Shortly after Poroshenko returned home last year, the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency halted its investigation into former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.