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What You Need To Know About Alleged Russian Payments To Trump's Lawyer Cohen

An attorney suing Trump and his attorney, Michael Cohen, says he has documented hundreds of thousands of dollars in transfers. Here's why that could be significant.

An explosive document released on Tuesday by an attorney suing Donald Trump and his personal lawyer could be the most important public evidence in the Russia imbroglio since Donald Trump Jr. released his emails last year.

The "executive summary" of material compiled by investigators working for lawyer Michael Avenatti ties together two threads that had previously appeared separate: Trump's confirmed payment to porn actress Storm Daniels to buy her silence and the alleged ties between Trump world and powerful Russians.

What Avenatti claims now is those two stories are connected.

Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, has acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 just before Election Day in 2016 to keep her

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