Something just doesn’t seem right about the letter. The tone of the letter makes it sound like it was part of the settlement itself.
Did alvin not know this existed or was this one he was just pretending didnt exist?
Does it really matter? It is what it is............LOL!
Absolutely. She never claims there was no payout, nor does she address why she received a payout. Here are some facts:
1.) Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump met several times in at least three different states.
2.) There was a 130,000.00 payment to Stormy Daniels shortly before the election. Michael Cohen paid it, he took out a home equity loan to pay it so it wouldn't be obvious even to his own wife.
3.) There was an NDA agreed upon as part of this payment. It's difficult to know for sure what parties and what exactly was agreed upon, or if Daniels and Trump were even the primaries, since they listed under pseudonyms. There is no evidence Trump ever signed.
3.) After the election, Cohen asked for and received reimbursement for that payment from Trump or an entity diretly related to Trump. Rudy Giuliani confirmed this.
4.) Cohen paid for, and was reimbursed in the same manner for, securing a second NDA from a different porn star purportedly linked to Trump in the same time frame.
5.) None of the above is illegal on its own, even if Trump was engaged in multiple affairs with porn stars and paid for their silence himself. Maybe embarrassing, but not illegal.
6.)The only potential illegality here is if somehow the timing of the payouts and the nature of the funds used to pay for the NDAs constitutes a campaign contribution that was either hidden or misrepresented. This was investigated and not prosecuted at the federal level where it would actually make sense.