RE: Because she was making an accusation to get some money out of him because she felt she had him “over a barrel” since he was running for President?
The issue is this — are the accusations true?
If not, why bother paying?
The fact that he paid her and asked her to keep quiet about it does not give me much confidence.
Please!!!
You really cannot be this dense.
He is running a Presidential campaign as a Republican with a completely hostile FAKE NEWS press, and you cannot see the reason for him paying her to be quiet?
Let’s do a thought experiment here...
What if he had defiantly decided to just let her take her accusations to the press while denying the tryst ever occured?
What do you think would have been the outcome?