Mastodawn

To pay Stormy, Donald ordered his team
- to create a shell company
- to come up with fake names for the agreement
- to come up with fake invoices for repaying Cohen

NOT to hide it from Melania.

This was to hide it from campaign finance regulators, journalists, and all of us.

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Threadbane Apr 30, 2024

@tristansnell
I do wish people would stop giving Defendant Trump credit for creating this complex subterfuge. It's on record that #CitizenTrump wanted to pay Stormy in cash, but *Cohen* insisted on the financial rigamarole to hide the transaction. #UnindictedCoConspirator1 has the mind of a child, incapable of thinking up a shadowy chain of loans and shell companies. This sort of crap was always left up to more intelligent criminals like Weisselberg and Mitnick.