What is the case even about? Didn’t Stormy Daniels get her money, then she broke the agreement to quit telling “her stories” and was found liable to pay it back. We are in court because a politician paid a blackmailer money? Congress has a fund set aside for them to pay off their tattletale victims, and WE FUND IT!
They are trying to say he lied about the nature of the payment (just a lawyer fee) in order to cover for his election bid. It’s hybrid charge (commingling Federal and local law) that will be thrown out as such on appeal.