Of course that's what he was doing. Didn't Cohen set up the LLC in Oct 2016? Right before the election? Cohen was also (or still is?) a RNC fundraiser? Trump probably didn't give him an appointment because he's the money man and wanted to keep him at least at arms length from the WH, but yet he got a spot at the RNC, which probably didn't happen without Trump's insistance.

And wouldn't surprise me a bit. In fact, I kind of assume that DT was receiving most of it, with a cut going to Cohen as a fee. It wouldn't have gone directly to Trump, but to one of his own shell companies. Or Ivanka and Jared. Or some other bizarre arrangement that's going to blow our minds when revealed.

Trump and Cohen use the slushy money to take care of their garbage payments.

Russian oligarch money to people like McTurtle, the zombie eyed granny starver, and a host of other republicans who seem to be complicit in the Russian takeover of our country.

That'd be an insane hypothesis, right?

To your OP, of course the grifters with a history of grifting were continuing to grift. After all this is the same guy who rents golf carts to the Secret Service at his properties for thousands of dollars.

This scumbag has used his presidency to make money off of the American taxpayer. What a thief!

Pay for play, most of the money going to the idiot republican president. And soon we'll uncover the laundering routes.

Because we know that that llc paid Donnie's personal hush money expenses.

The money doesn't have to hit Donnie's personal checking account to prove it was bribery.