re: Okay. Trump concealed payments to Stormy...

The apparent defense for Trump was it was some accounting clerk coding it to legal expenses and that he was not aware of it. That was proven to be false as there were several separate testimonies that Trump was very involved and questioned everything on invoices, backup and also refused to sign some checks.

As to the defense that this was legal expenses, there is the recording with Trump's voice and that sure sounds like it was a payoff to keep it quiet before the election. Also, lawyers are not known for fronting cash for their clients. Cohen is the obvious dumbass who did this but he did cover his arse with documents and recordings.

As to the defense that Cohen is a convicted felon and served time for this, several high-level defendants have been convicted with similar circumstances.

The funniest part of this whole trial was hearing Trump's own lawyer refer to Trump as an Orange Turd at least 2 to 3 times when reading e-mails into the court record.