re: #29 lawhawk

Yup. All this talk of Cohen doing all of this for Trump to bury the story is part and parcel of the plan to bury these stories before they get out, and to cover for Trump by any means necessary. You’ve got Trump who signs off on billing and CFO Weisselberg also deeply involved in the financial matters and payments/reimbursements, which puts all of them squarely on the criminal conduct alleged in the indictments.

The defense team seem to actually be trying to work themselves around to a mafia-style defense of Trump: That Cohen did it all of his own volition out of “loyalty” to Trump, that he made the payment and told his boss that it was all perfectly legal, and then later changed his story to implicate Trump in an effort to save his own ass.