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AGAIN: unproven, the nature of the payment. It could have been Cohen making the payment completely on his own, as he has stated.

In any case, it's a huge stretch to make that it was somehow a campaign violation. It occurred 11 years before the campaign, and was not a payment made with Trump campaign funds.

It was a rich guy who had sex with a pornstar, and didn't want Stormy Daniels to go public, because he has a wife and children, a situation any number of married well-off men find themselves in. As I recall, Trump and Stormy Daniels met at a golf tournament, that they are both celebrities, and the $130,000 paid was for a business non-disclosure agreement, that is certainly not unheard of in the business or entertainment world, particularly when both are famous. Again, for (if the porn star mercenary can be believed) a consensual one-night liason. Given Trump's lifetime PUBLIC image with women, even admitted in one of his own books, does anyone think an affair would hurt Trump politically, given what Trump voters already knew about him?

You're trying to manufacture smoke where there is no fire, M E M.

The payment was made during the 2016 campaign not 11 years ago.

Attorney Michael Cohen said:
"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," Cohen said. "The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone."


Business Insider, "Meet Stormy Daniels"

Yep, Trump's lawyer has made that claim. So?

So there's no proof that it was campaign related. Cohen says it was something he did entirely independently.


Meanwhile there's all those mountains of ACTUAL evidence against Hillary Clinton, who has ACTUAL collusion with the Russians over the "Russia Dossier", Fusion GPS, 33,000 deleted e-mails that were deleted to hide her guilt, her illegal private server that allowed the Russians and the Chinese to hack her e-mails and know White House communications as they occurred in real time on a variety of top secret national security matters.
That's for openers.

But because of Meuller's Soviet-style investigation that serves his Deep State/DNC masters, equal justice under the law, and actually looking at the facts, takes a distant backseat to weaponizing law enforcement against Trump, using whatever contrivance is available.
In this case, Trump's still unproven one-night affair with a porn star.