President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s former lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday testified that lying to first lady Melania Trump Melania TrumpMelania Trump: Ginsburg's 'spirit will live on in all she has inspired' The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - You might want to download TikTok now Warning label added to Trump tweet over potential mail-in voting disinformation MORE about payments made to women the president allegedly had affairs with in order to keep them quiet was one of his “biggest regrets.“

Cohen, speaking before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, called then-candidate Trump a “conman" for orchestrating the payments.

“He asked me to pay off an adult-film star with whom he had an affair and to lie to his wife about it, which I did,” Cohen said in prepared remarks.

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“Lying to the first lady is one of my biggest regrets,” Cohen continued. “She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly and she did not deserve that.”

Cohen provided the congressional panel with a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer he sent to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, born Stephanie Clifford, just days before the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump later acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment.

The former lawyer testified that Trump directed him to use his own personal funds from a home equity line of credit “to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign.”

“I did that, too, without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether it was the right things to do or how it could impact me, my family or the public," Cohen told the committee.

Cohen was sentenced late last year to three years in prison for a series of crimes he committed while working for Trump, including campaign finance violations stemming from the hush-money payments.

Cohen last year reportedly approached Melania Trump at a Republican fundraiser hosted at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to apologize “for the pain” the money caused.

Melania Trump was reportedly “blindsided” by the reports of the payment and kept out of the public eye for several days.

She suddenly backed out of a scheduled trip to travel with Trump to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last January just days after the news broke.

The president has vehemently denied the affair allegations. Daniels claims the encounter happened in 2006.

The first lady brushed off allegations of her husband’s rumored affairs in October, saying she has “more important things to think about.”

“It is not concern and focus of mine,” she said.