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
we should say we don t know what he used the rest of this money for, whether it was something relating to president trump or not, but certainly the timing of all this is really interesting. right. that s what s the most interesting thing to me aside from the large amount of the sums, of course, of money here is the timing in the wall street journal piece which is that the money that cohen started receiving was around february 2016, which as we both know having been there was when his fortunes and his poll numbers started to rise as a presidential candidate. we know he won the new hampshire primary on february 9th, for example, and he became suddenly a serious sacandidate out of al of these 17 candidates. nobody was dismissing him anymore. the question you have to raise is that we thought this was a campaign and i ve been told this by people in the campaign, you know, we never expected to win. we never expected to win. and suddenly when he became a