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Sen. Orrin Hatch eyes legacy with archive, think tank plans

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST humans,” he said.
Associated Press Tax filings show Hatch’s
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — foundation raised nearly
Signed boxing gloves from $6 million by 2016, the most
Muhammad Ali, docu- recent year documents
ments from the Bill Clinton are available. Donations
impeachment and 3,000 have come from places
boxes of other papers and like Visa, the NFL, the to-
memorabilia from a 42-year bacco manufacturer Altria
career in Washington, D.C., and the Pharmaceutical
will be part of a library and Research and Manufactur-
think tank being named for ers of America, according
retiring U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch to federal disclosure forms.
on Wednesday. Because Hatch is chair-
After helping pass a sweep- man of the powerful Sen-
ing overhaul of the tax code ate Finance Committee,
and persuading President the fundraising has raised
Donald Trump to downsize questions about possible
two national monuments, conflict of interest. The
the Republican Hatch an- foundation has said dona-
nounced in January he will tions have been handled
be leaving office at the Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, looks on during news conference Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in Salt Lake properly and it retained an
end of the year. City. ethics-expert attorney.
“Presidents normally open Associated Press Organizers declined to say
entire libraries to house their granite building will also tute named for him at the of Ohio last year, Hatch said Wednesday how much
papers, and those normally house a full-sized replica University of Utah. he was tired of the Demo- the Hatch Center project
cover a period of just four of Hatch’s Senate office Hatch, 83, is a staunch con- crat’s “bull crap.” Earlier this might cost.
or eight years,” Hatch said. for him to write his memoirs servative who worked with year, Hatch used an exple- It will host speakers and
“With 42 years of service, I and meet with students. the late liberal lion Massa- tive during a speech to de- public debates, as well as
have quite a bit of history Groundbreaking for the chusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy scribe supporters of former use his contacts to study
that I’d like to share with structure located along a to pass the Americans with President Barack Obama’s the legislative process.
my fellow Utahns and those row of stately Salt Lake City Disabilities Act and the health care law, though he Researchers and others
who come here from out of buildings like the governor’s Children’s Health Insurance later apologized. will have access to his ex-
state.” mansion could be as soon Program and also authored Overall, Hatch’s body of tensive papers, including
The Orrin G. Hatch Center as this summer. landmark bipartisan legisla- work reflects the center’s drafts of legislation and let-
is partnering with the Uni- “The only thing wrong tion, increasing access to bipartisan mission, founda- ters from people like Nancy
versity of Utah with the goal with it is, it may not be big generic-drugs. tion director Trent Chris- Reagan.
of “leading a movement” enough,” joked Utah re- Hatch also clashed with tensen said. Similar centers include the
toward bipartisanship and al-estate developer Kem opponents in recent years. “The beauty of the con- Edward M. Kennedy Insti-
civility in politics. Gardner, who sits on the During a tax-cut debate cept of civility is that it al- tute in Boston and the Mc-
The center that’s envi- Hatch Foundation board with liberal firebrand Dem- lows people to be people, Cain Institute at Arizona
sioned as a columned and also has a policy insti- ocratic Sen. Sherrod Brown it allows for humans to be State University.q

Giuliani: Trump repaid Cohen $130K for payment to porn star

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- ment she signed days be- Daniels says she had a sex-
dent Donald Trump’s new fore the 2016 presidential ual encounter with Trump in
lawyer Rudy Giuliani said election. 2006 and was paid to keep
Wednesday that Trump Asked aboard Air Force quiet as part of a nondis-
repaid his personal attor- One whether he knew closure agreement she is
ney Michael Cohen for a about the payment, Trump now seeking to invalidate.
$130,000 payment to porn said flatly: “No.” Trump also She has also filed a defa-
star Stormy Daniels, directly said he didn’t know why mation suit against Trump,
contradicting the presi- Cohen had made the pay- who denies having sex with
dent’s past statements. ment or where he got the Daniels. “Mr. Trump evi-
During an appearance on money. dently has participated in
Fox News Channel’s “Han- Giuliani, who joined a felony and there must be
nity,” Giuliani said the mon- Trump’s legal team last serious consequences for
ey had been “funneled ... month, said the president his conduct and his lies and
through the law firm and had repaid Cohen over deception to the American
the president repaid it.” several months, indicating people,” he said.
Asked if Trump knew about In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Gi- the payments continued Cohen’s payment to the
the arrangement, Giu- uliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster club- through at least the presi- president’s accuser in
liani said: “He didn’t know house in Bedminster, N.J. dential transition, if not into the weeks leading up to
about the specifics of it, Associated Press his presidency. the presidential election
as far as I know. But he did things like this for my cli- Trump told reporters sever- He also says the payment could be cast as an illegal
know about the general ents. I don’t burden them al weeks ago that he didn’t “is going to turn out to be contribution but not if he
arrangement, that Michael with every single thing that know about the $130,000 perfectly legal” because were acting on the presi-
would take care of things comes along. These are payment to Daniels as part “that money was not cam- dent’s behest and with his
like this, like I take care of busy people.” of a nondisclosure agree- paign money.” money..q