“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James B. Comey’s testimony,” he wrote on Twitter. The second is adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who was paid $130,000 shortly before the election by Cohen himself. Why might they be confident that the payments were both campaign related and that Trump was aware they were? That purchase never happened, because AMI’s attorneys reportedly informed chief executive David Pecker that being repaid (in essence) would undermine his own arguments that the payment wasn’t campaign-related. From a filing related to Cohen’s initial guilty plea.

Source: Washington Post December 10, 2018 14:48 UTC