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A long-time personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump has said that he paid USD 130,000 out of his own pocket to a porn star, who once claimed she had an affair with the President, a decade before he took office. "In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford," Michael Cohen said in a statement on Tuesday.