Cohen as his attorney supposedly was acting on his behalf, with money from a monthly retainer that came from the Trump organization. No question he was paid this retainer. So, money is fungible, also Cohen says he paid from his own money, some of which came from Trump. This seems like the weakest point, how can anyone say what money in Cohen's checking account was from Trump?
Cohen took out a fraudulent mortgage using overvalued taxi tokens and laundered the money to Daniels through front companies. This is what he went to jail for. Why would he do this if he was getting the money through the retainer. Were his retainer payments ever adjusted to accomodate these payments? Nobody has ever shown evidence of such.
When we get to the end of the road here we are going to find out that Trump never had an affair with this two bit hooker, he never knew a thing about any so called hush payments and Cohen was either a mole from his hiring date and was activated to set Trump up or the affair was between Cohen and Daniels and he was hiding it from his wife.
Lawyers are required to keep separate accounts of client money that they hold. A retainer can be a refundable deposit against charges (i.e., client money) or it can be a fee (i.e., the lawyer's money). If the lawyer doesn't specify or classify correctly, it could be malpractice.
But that would be Cohen's problem. Now we have the actual "evidence" for these charges in invoices and such, the worst I can see is that some dates don't match--but Trump didn't do that either.
There was never any payment from trump. There is no case.
Cohen as his attorney supposedly was acting on his behalf, with money from a monthly retainer that came from the Trump organization. No question he was paid this retainer. So, money is fungible, also Cohen says he paid from his own money, some of which came from Trump. This seems like the weakest point, how can anyone say what money in Cohen's checking account was from Trump?
Cohen took out a fraudulent mortgage using overvalued taxi tokens and laundered the money to Daniels through front companies. This is what he went to jail for. Why would he do this if he was getting the money through the retainer. Were his retainer payments ever adjusted to accomodate these payments? Nobody has ever shown evidence of such.
When we get to the end of the road here we are going to find out that Trump never had an affair with this two bit hooker, he never knew a thing about any so called hush payments and Cohen was either a mole from his hiring date and was activated to set Trump up or the affair was between Cohen and Daniels and he was hiding it from his wife.
Yes. I think the back story of Cohen's many problems at the time is illuminating as to how this mess started.
This right here^^^^^
It is also on record in a court of law that Trump had no idea Cohen made any such payment.
Per Cohen himself
Yes.
Lawyers are required to keep separate accounts of client money that they hold. A retainer can be a refundable deposit against charges (i.e., client money) or it can be a fee (i.e., the lawyer's money). If the lawyer doesn't specify or classify correctly, it could be malpractice.
But that would be Cohen's problem. Now we have the actual "evidence" for these charges in invoices and such, the worst I can see is that some dates don't match--but Trump didn't do that either.