Sorry, it’s you that are being obtuse. Mark Levin and an expert on campaign financing law spent a lot of time on this issue the first time it came up. To assert that a NDA is a campaign contribution is ludicrous. Cohen was performing actions that a celebrities attorney performs on a regular basis, and who undoubtedly did it before. Campaign finance law specifically permits actions that would have been performed if not in a campaign.
If the “contribution” was made by Cohen Trump could not be charged with wrongdoing. If interpreted as a Trump “contribution” he has unlimited ability to contribute to his own campaign.
It’s a ludicrous charge. Weaker than Russian Collusion, which is also a farce.
Levin and the ex-FEC chair made a good defense when this came up months ago. And they were right in what they said . It just doesn’t apply anymore now that we know the details, and the Cohen bungled the handling of the payment. You are being deliberately obtuse because no one saying an NDA is a campaign contribution. An NDA is an NDA. Trump can make unlimited contributions, but expenditures then have to be reported, and they weren’t. Trump knew about the payments, we have the audio recordings, so if Cohen made them illegally they can rope Trump in for it as well. Anyway, whatever, it sucks for Trump, it was the Lawyers fault. Doesn’t help for you to act obtuse and ignore the facts now that they are out.