Why would Cohen pay Daniels for her silence without reimbursement?
What lawyer just says, oh there’s 130k in my pocket, I’ll give it to this porn star threatening to tell on my client, because I really like the guy. Chump change.
Cohen is an A-grade suckup, so that could be a reason to pay her off from his money, knowing he would get more than enough to cover that in future work.
I read quotes from Cohen saying he paid Stormy to get rid of her and to prevent Melania Trump from finding out. Also, Cohen didn’t want his wife finding out about Stormy.
I think Cohen was the one riding that Storm.
That is why he never asked Trump for reimbursement of the Stormy hush money.
My understanding - this letter was written back when Cohen still worked for Trump, and the point of it was to try to lie, which Cohen is famous for, by wording it in such a way to protect Trump from any potential wrongdoing. It was ultimately considered inaccurate during his trial, after Trump had abandoned him, and Cohen pleaded guilty to the charge of paying her for Trump.
What lawyer just says, oh there’s 130k in my pocket, I’ll give it to this porn star threatening to tell on my client, because I really like the guy. Chump change.
Again, my understanding is, Cohen didn’t even have that much money laying around, and had to take out a loan to make the payment to her in the first place. Then, to mask it, Tump paid him back in smaller monthly payments, per Trump’s own Presidential financial disclosure documents, up to $250K overall. Trump himself, and his lawyer Giuliani, did eventually admit he had paid Cohen for it, trying to point to the fact he used personal funds, rather than campaign funds, to claim that alone might prove it wasn’t a campaign violation.
So this letter is old, and completely overcome by events. Bragg is a dirtbag for trying to extend the statute of limitations, and prosecute federal election law which is outside his jurisdiction, especially against a former President, but this attempt by Trump to use this old letter from back when Cohen still represented him is dubious as well.