be tied to a legal defense for him, and also, the trump organization is not known for parting with its money very easily, and neither is the president. so i don t think they re in the business of just giving away tens and tens and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for what could happen in this ca you think back, though, to previous presidential scandals and the lengths that previous presidents, i m thinking about richard nixon, gone to prevent people from being tempted to cooperate with prosecutors, being tempted to tell prosecutors what they know, in part because they lt hung out to dry or that they were the ones being left holding the bag when it was really the president on whose behalf they were acting. in this case, because michael cohen was a trump organization executive, the trump organization could legally pay him hush money. sure. could even have a rational argument for paying him h money by paying for hisal fees if they so desired because
shadow, but also kind of a long tail that reaches directly to the trump presidency because the man who is widely believed to be president trump s best friend, the wealthy investor tom barrack, you might remember him speaking at the republican national convention, then came head of the trump inaugural committee. you might remember that the trump inaugural like nixon s presidential campaign apparently generated way more a slush fund thereafter left that has now come under scrutiny by federal investigators, tom rrick, you what his first job was after law school? you want to know where he got his start in buss? he worked for herb kalmbach, worked for herb kalmbach s law firm and directly for herb kalmbach. during thest nixon administration, when kalmbach was still nixon s personal lawyer, before he went to prison and lost his law license, during the time when he serving as nixon s bagman, carrying around a bag full of $100,000 in cash,
literally to deliver $100,000 in cash, in bills, money in a big bag that kalmbach handed over to that gubernatorial election in 1970. the way it worked is kalmbach showed up with $100,000 c a bag. he met a stranger, somebody he had never met before in the lobby of the sheri netherland hotel in new york city. the way he knew that that particular stranger was the right person to give the bag with the $100,000 in was when that stranger recognized the code words for that operation. those code words were herb kalmbach s personal lawyer introducing himself as mr. detr. heas not mr. jenson of detroit. he w herb kalmbach of newport beach, chasm. but that was the code word, and that s how they handed off the money. nixon s personal lawyer. he was never part of the nixon administration formally, but he ended up involved in all of this