
NYDA probing Trump payment to Stormy Daniels despite Barr's efforts to make it go away
The Rachel Maddow Show
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Trump Organization Lawyer Michael Cohen Paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to Keep Her Story Quiet Before the Election
The national inquirer and their publisher with the funny name, them being granted immunity, is at least rational. We understand what prosecutors did there. When it comes to Trump though, and the Trump Organization, it never really made any sense that they escaped sort of Scott Free despite the fact that prosecutors had this crime dead to rights. The Justice Department policy says no indictment can be brought against a sitting president. But were it not for that policy, would Trump have face charges for this crime? How it be that Michael Cohen did and Trump didn't? It's still to this day has not made sense that Mr. Cohen is the one who went to prison for this when no one else did.
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