Both deny the one night stand story. So the question then becomes why the payoff?
Probably that scumbag lawyer Cohen was playing the long game. Pay her with his own money to set Trump up, submit a reimbursement request to Trump hoping he doesn’t look closely at it, just more “legal expenses” from the lawyer.
Then Cohen leaks the story to the scumbag demonrats.
Cohen’s not that bright or forward thinking. It was just a quickie/easy way to make the ho go away, IMO.
It would have worked had Trump not run for president AS A REPUBLICAN....automatically making him Target #1 of the radical left.