For the last time to people who seem to know what's going on but really don't know what's going on ... It’s the cover up of the cover up. It’s not that Trump had sex with Daniels and it’s not that he paid her $130,000 for her silence - it’s that he was involved in creating fraudulent records to hide the purpose of the payment.
This document is the bank’s bank statement showing the $130,000 withdrawal from Cohen’s account, reflecting the payment to Stormy’s lawyer. The handwriting at the bottom left is Weissslberg’s (authenticated by some of the Trump org employees), and includes in chicken scratch the calculation of the total of $420,000, over 12 months. Cohen got $35,000 per month from Trump. (The handwriting at the bottom right is Cohen’s)
And ... Nothing the defense has presented is sufficient to overcome the evidence presented by the prosecution.
If you take the position that Cohen did it of his own accord, as the defense has asserted, it would seem that you are confronted with some questions.
For being such a groveling man, who is presumably motivated by jealousy of trump, why wouldn't he have told Trump what he did? How is he advancing his position by keeping it secret from Donald?
And, two, why did Trump repay him? The DA has introduced that bank statement that confirmed the wire to Daniels, on which Weisselberg wrote up a repayment (adding in a bonus, other fees and a cushion for taxes). This calculation
exactly matches the repayments to Cohen. This isn’t Cohen’s salary working for the Trump Org, and he isn’t working for Trump in Washington. What are the checks for?
At the end of the day, the most logical conclusion is that, yes, Cohen was a dirt bag and a liar, but he did it in service to Trump. And, yes, he’s bitter and biased against Trump, because he went to jail for him while Trump did nothing, but that just became the motivation to disclose the dirty tricks he pulled on Trump’s behalf.