“In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own persol funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford,” Michael Cohen said in a statement on Tuesday. “Neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” the New York Times quoted him as saying. “The payment to Clifford was lawful and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone,” Cohen said. He previously said that Trump denied an affair with Clifford, whose stage me is Stormy Daniels. She had said the affair took place soon after Trump’s wife, Melania, gave birth to the couple’s son, Barron.