Rudy Giuliani defended a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on Thursday by arguing it was to protect President Trump “personally” from her allegations of an affair, but then questioned what would have happened if her claims had come out during the campaign.

“If we had to defend this as not being a campaign contribution — I think we can do that. This was for personal reasons,” Giuliani said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

Giuliani said the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen took it upon himself to make the payment to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 election because her allegations had damaged the president and his family.

“The president had been hurt personally, not politically, personally so much and the first lady by some of the false allegations that one more false allegation, 6 years old — I think he was trying to help the family,” Giuliani said. “For that, the man is being treated like some kind of villain and I think he was just being a good lawyer and a good man.”

“It wasn’t for the campaign, it was to save not so much their marriage, as much as their reputation,” he continued.

He went on to accuse Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, of hitting on “rich guys, older ones and then shake them down for a couple of million bucks.”

“Imagine if that came out on Oct. 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton?” Giuliani said. “Cohen made it go away. He did his job.”