He told the Post that the president re­imbursed Cohen by paying him $35,000 a month in 2017 for legal work for the previous year. Giuliani called it a "straight-out bill," explaining that if Trump didn't pay it "every month, he paid it many months."

"The monthly bill was paying down the expenditures. .?.?. It was not a loan," Giuliani added. "Some of it was for taxes, some of it was for incidental expenses. It covered things that might come up."

Giuliani has emphasized that the Clifford payment was not a campaign expenditure to make certain she didn't talk — even though she was paid shortly before the presidential election.
Giuliani told host Sean Hannity that the president reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 payment, appearing to contradict repeated denials from the White House and Trump's legal team that the president was even aware of the payment to Daniels.

"Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA," Trump tweeted, reiterating Giuiliani's characterization of Trump's reimbursement to Cohen.