Well it is not good news, but yes, it seemed Rudy had to disclose this. The bad is that Trump told a little white lie previously about no knowing about the payment, and clearly yes, he obviously did it as he didn’t need another scandal pre-election.
So he paid hush money. Not a good look. But how many hush payments has Hillary made in her career? If Mueller was looking for a smoking gun this is likely the best he is going to get. Not Russia collusion. Just a negative news story that Trump paid hush money to a prostitute.
It doesn’t make Trump Hitler, but is it enough basis for impeachment? I certainly don’t think even paying hush money to stop a bad news story is grounds for impeachment. But the Senate might differ. The worst of it would, for me, be he lied about knowing about it.
My prediction is that there are going to calls from the Democrats to start impeachment proceedings. Whether we hear the same calls from Republicans remains to be seen.
In Hillary’s case they rather famously just assume room temperature by the dozens.
“So he paid hush money. Not a good look.”
If Washington were to reveal who made payments to hookers, DC would be a ghost town and the swamp would be drained............
Trump was not a sitting president at the time any of the hooker foolishness went on.
And none of this meets the standard of high crimes or misdemeanors.
He “misspoke”.