I never thought this much corruption and malfeasance by one administration was even possible!

That's hysterical. He lies about EVERYTHING.

Won’t even talk to you on the phone without billing you for the time. Does anyone actually believe a lawyer is going to shell out that much of his own money, out of the goodness of his heart, to protect a client? Lol

Wasn’t he VP of Trump Org?

Edit to add:

Michael Dean Cohen (born 1966/67) is an American attorney who works as a lawyer and spokesperson for U.S. President Donald Trump.[1] Prior to this appointment he was Executive Vice-President of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump.[2] Cohen also previously served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and a member of the board of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity.[3] He joined the Trump Organization after having been a partner at Phillips Nizer.[3]

Wiki

Great stuff.

That he is running a crime family and lies about everything shouldn't raise eyebrows anymore.What the real problems seems to be is that each lie into itself would bring down a regular President. When Trump lies it seems so "normal".

That's scary.

ivanka or the cost of a stamp or something weird that relates to another event, etc, it might help her lawyer with a jury, etc

There is simply no way in hell that an attorney would pay $130,000 out of his own pocket to shelter a client from bad publicity. 45* (aka Spanky) surely sent money to Cohen somehow, now someone needs to find proof of that (and it sounds like that's getting closer and closer).

leaving 69 cents for Trump to foot. These lawyers have no sense of the ironic

To help make up some of his loss.

never rang true to me. I thought it strange that he would drop this in to polite conversation unless they were creating a cover story. I just don't think it's something even a hack like Cohen would divulge unless it was orchestrated.

so just wait and see as the money has to have found a way back to Cohen....

Slap on the wrist, a fine, the death sentence?

This would be an action by the FEC comparable to the Edwards situation, which would mean possible action another year or two down the road. However, it is unlikely this FEC is going to do much of anything.

It's always the cover-up.

that would mean something, right? So okay, we see here that x amount of money was paid to x....Now what was for?

Then there should be proof that it came from his bank account or proof that he took out a mortgage on his house PRIOR to the payment to Daniels.

And that the money is actually gone and not still sitting in a bank account somewhere still under his name or one of his Llc's.

There has to be a digital or paper trail.

Simple for those who know to find out.

It's also nice to know that this will kill his future as a lawyer, who on earth would ever hire him after this is all figured out?

and the home equity loan money went into a new LLC he set up just for the purpose of paying Stormy. Cohen owns several properties including in Trump Tower so he may have several properties including a primary residence as collateral with that bank that issued this particular home equity loan.

Hopefully Mueller probe will get to bottom of details, since it would take an FBI investigation to entangle all of the complicated finances involving multiple properties and shell companies plus the campaign funds that Cohen and Trump have used to avoid detection.

With so many scandals to choose from I didn't really read too much about this one so far.

Loan forgiveness is also a possibility that could be looked into. Let's see whether the money was really borrowed. If this theory is true, then it probably was.

But what about money paid on other NDAs, assuming there really were some.

Just theories, but worth examining.

Need to Ask Sarah at the next WH briefing.

More damning is the apparent fact that Trump didn't even thank his attorney. Indeed, he implies he didn't so much as acknowledge the payment. And why should he when Trump continues his claim that he never touched her?

None of that makes any sense without considering it a payment from the campaign to stanch a sex scandal days before the election.

If it is just a coincidence that the payments were off by 28 cents from the $130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels, surely there is a reason for the payments?

and got away with, like so many other things?

My guess is if that is true, the money trail will be examined.

Donald Trump has proven himself to be a control freak and a chronic liar. I really don't see a situation where he allowed his personal attorney to go off and do shit without having knowledge of it or ordering it. Hopefully Mueller connects the dots back to Trump.

I guess, since Mueller's investigation doesn't get into campaign finance. It might be other ways that Cohen handled illegal money that might relate to obstruction of justice or Russia collusion.

Campaign finance is within the purview of Congress.

Manafort was not originally investigated for the crimes with which he and Gates were initially charged. Yet Mueller found what his team considered crimes, filed charges that ultimately flipped Gates, now Mueller is looking into actual Manafort Russian collusion with information that Gates appear to be providing.

I don't see him doing that, since the $130k didn't come knocking on Mueller's door, so he didn't "run across" it while investigating the Russian connection matters. And a campaign finance law would be pretty small potatoes compared with all the heavy things Mueller is dealing with. I don't see him spending time on campaign finance fraud, esp since that's in the news and Congress has oversight on that, anyway. It's not in the same league as Manafort's money laundering issues.

Totally different than Mueller running across the $130k thing in the records he has and is analyzing for Russian connections and obstruction of justice.

But I guess he could...especially if he has his sights on Cohen for other reasons. Or if this is part of a bigger pattern in Trump's campaign.

The total for three meals could be the exact daily amount allowed, but no two meals anywhere on the expense report could cost the same. Stupid, because most people end up eating meals on business at the same places each day and usually settle on a favorite meal. So one guy came up with a program to generate random amounts. Maybe Trump's accountants have a similar program for shady payments and there's a slight bug in it or they are so clever they add a very small error. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit. They seem to leave breadcrumbs all over the place.

being the smartest genius in the stable.

paid back. So, he ripped off Cohen and the donor. Sounds par for Trump

Why do we waste so much time analyzing DJT's words?

The president is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR who manipulates truth as a way to assert power. HE LIES. ALL THE TIME. Our default assumption should be that he lied.

Relax.

there are likely to be about 129,999 of them.