Rick HasenVerified account

That is crazy. To begin with if it is campaign related, it would be an unreported loan to the campaign from Cohen. Then it would be an unreported expenditure.https://twitter.com/pbump/status/991855353242451968 …

It also could implicate problems with fraud in relation to the reasons for the home equity loan, but that's outside my area.

If the campaign is paying Cohen's legal fees now, on grounds that the Stormy Daniels issue is campaign related, then it is harder to argue that the initial payment (in the heat of the campaign) was also not campaign related.

It's not impossible to make the argument that it was personal before the election when it was private, but now it is a campaign issue for Trump 2020 campaign. But that seems weak given the timing.

This lends credence to the idea that they sent Giuliani to get ahead of this story, rather than Giuliani speaking out of schoolhttps://twitter.com/costareports/status/991883505033342977 …