Not only that, but per the DOJ plea deal with Cohen, the Trump Foundation recorded the expenses as "legal expenses". Paying your lawyer to execute an NDA is certainly a legal expense. The DOJ's only claim was that these expenses occurred in 2016, not 2017. An absolute crock.
"The Company (Trump Foundation) accounted for these payments as legal expenses. In truth and in fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices COHEN submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017.
Just because I have a car restored in late 2016 doesn’t mean I don’t pay for it in 2017.
There was no crime. If President Trump actually HAD spent campaign money on the stormy daniels case THAT would have been a campaign finance violation. He did not spend campaign money. He spent his OWN money on the Daniels Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). An NDA is perfectly legal.