“And the legal expense was to Michael Cohen for the Non-Disclosure Agreement. Isn’t a Non-Disclosure agreement a LEGAL document? If so, how is payment for this agreement not a legal expense?”
Because the money wasn’t a payment to Cohen for prepping the document, it was a payment to Cohen to reimburse him for paying Daniels.
If Trump had paid Cohen $140,000 for example, 10K for prepping the NDA and 130K to be paid to Daniels then the 10K could have been legitimately classed as legal fees. NDAs are a common legal event, there are presumably standard ways to classify payments for NDAs.
RE: If Trump had paid Cohen $140,000 for example, 10K for prepping the NDA and 130K to be paid to Daniels then the 10K could have been legitimately classed as legal fees.
OK, so the $130,000 should have been declared as WHAT exactly so that it would not be illegal?