I just want everyone here to know that it’s nights like this that I can take some pleasure in the hellscape that is Trump’s America. Stormy skies ahead!
Trump put 66 millions of his own money into his Campaign.
Even if he took 130,000 back out of the 66,000,000 that he put in, its kind of silly to say it was campaign money and not his money (don’t know why he would have done it that way, though.
"Giuliani, who joined Trump’s legal team last month, said the president had repaid Cohen over several months, indicating the payments continued through at least the presidential transition, if not into his presidency. He also said the payment “is going to turn out to be perfectly legal” because "that money was not campaign money."
This whole thing is based on Giulianis statement. I think he would have checked this out before making this statement.
End of story.
IMO Giuliani did good with this. He got everything out at once and made an argument as to it all being legal. If he had done nothing, it would have drip, drip dripped out anyway and that always makes it look suspicious (as in the oft repeated “if nothing happened, why did they lie?”
The point of the payment was to positively affect Trump’s electoral chances. The fact that the money did NOT go through the campaign is the actual problem.