[metmom]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

Only a voyeuristic pervert would even care.

Was the whore telling the truth now but was lying then, or was the whore telling the truth then and is lying now?

[1Old Pro]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

Cover up Michael Cohen's affair with her.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

So she couldn’t lie and say they did.

Basically, it was a pay off because she has a picture of them together.

[OldGoatCPO]

It is paid to avoid the publicity. Wealthy or famous people pay NDA(s) for many different reasons. It is not always about sex. In this case, an unscrupulous person or persons capitalized on a chance meeting to make a few grand so Trump could avoid bad publicity. You can fight and win outrageous claims or even legitimate claims of an affair between consenting adults and pay tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers and deal with the yellow journalists or pay less and hush the claim.

The charges, I believe, are that he illegally used campaign funds to pay the hush money and knew it. But the feds investigated and said nothing illegal was done, so why a trial now?

[Verginius Rufus]

She could have alleged the affair and it would have hurt Trump’s chances in the election—she wouldn’t need to produce any proof to cause millions of people to assume it was true. I don’t believe there was an affair. The media would have played it up and it could have cost Trump the election, just like the DUI story (true but 24 years old) almost cost GWB the election in 2000.

[CrosscutSaw]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

To make her go away. Happens all the time with nuisance claims.

[georgia peach]

To end the annoyance.

[A strike]

“Then the hush money was for what exactly?”

From whom was the hush money exactly ?

[VideoDoctor]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

The TRUE story is that, now DISGRACED and DISBARRED former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, is who actually had the affair
with porn star Stormy Daniels, paid her hush money, got her to sign an agreement.. then attempted to BILL his client Donald Trump
for the $130,000 dollar payment. Trump has DENIED again and again that he has EVER had an affair with Stormy Daniels...

Yet the MSM IGNORES his continued statements of innocence.

[Harpotoo]

Pay off a blackmail?

[Hatteras]

You don’t pay them to come, you pay them to go away.

[Harpotoo]

Pay off a blackmail?

[DiogenesLamp]

Then the hush money was for what exactly?

I would assume it was for not claiming she did.

People will lie if there is money in it, and by claiming she had an affair with Trump, she could have made money by lying about it.

Trump didn't need the aggravation and potential loss this might cause, so his people may have thought it was cheaper to just pay her to go away.