Wasnt plausible, Wasnt Believable but it was at least relatively co teernt. To recap, Michael Cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that Michael Cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated as cohen put it 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. Now, the money came out of cohens pocket allegedly taken from a Home Equity Line of credit we were told. The president had not repaid it. In fact, mr. Trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. Nothing to do with skel change an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. On wednesday night Rudy Guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. Its not Campaign Money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through a law firm. Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. Oh, i didnt know h
yeah. the president repaid cohen, he said, so that that was the damage control. and it s a sign of how well it played that mr. guiliani was back on fox the very next morning to try to clean up his mess, except he didn t, he made an even bigger mess because he blew a hole in perhaps the most important claim that michael cohen had been making, that the original hush payment had nothing to do with the election. cue legal eagle, rudy guiliani. imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016 in the middle of the last gate. cohen didn t even ask. cohen made it go away, he did his job. imagine if it came out then, just like that michael cohen s claim that it was just a coincidence this happened less than two weeks before the election became even more laughable. remember, cohen had said he could have made the payment months before but just happened to do it when he did it. just a short time after that fox appearance as all this was blowing up mayor guiliani told cnn he had, quote, caref
no campaign finance violation. they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. oh, i didn t know he did? yeah. the president repaid cohen, he said, so that that was the damage control. and it s a sign of how well it played that mr. giuliani was back on fox the very next morning to try to clean up his mess, except he didn t, he made an even bigger mess because he blew a hole in perhaps the most important claim that michael cohen had been making, that the original hush payment had nothing to do with the election. cue legal eagle rudy giuliani. imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016 in the middle of the last debate. cohen didn t even ask. cohen made it go away, he did his job. imagine if it came out then, just like that michael cohen s claim that it was just a coincidence this happened less than two weeks before the election became even more laughable. remember, cohen had said he could have made the payment months befor