somehow, to sign the checks reimbursing him, but they wanted to keep it, remember, in this small circle. it s basically at this point, weisselberg, trump, and cohen. and, you know, those at that time to trump, are trusted soldiers. right. cohen s gone now and weisselberg, you know, he s going to get immunity and he s not the kind i think willing to take a bullet at age 71 for the president. this goes to show that from the beginning, this was not your standard political operation, right? this wasn t operating the way any other white house would have operated. it was operating like a small family business. and with the president writing checks. of dubious legality, we should also note. or of dubious compliance, let s just say. sure. not real compliance nerds up in there. this is not what was happening in the obama white house. no! for sure. i know that for a fact, yes. so again, it s all a little sopranos-ish, i mean, this is not business as usual. but then the
and with the president writing checks. of dubious legality, we should also note. or of dubious compliance, let s just say. sure. not real compliance nerds up in there. this is not what was happening in the obama white house. no! for sure. i know that for a fact, yes. so again, it s all a little sopranos-ish, i mean, this is not business as usual. but then the question becomes like, what s the bar, right, for what that trespass means in a sort of constitutional sense and a criminal sense. in a criminal sense, the southern district has already implicated the president as individual one in conspiring with or directing these illegal payments. in a constitutional sense, and you re someone who does constitutional law, like, there s a constitutional question of like, what rises to the high crimes and misdemeanors threshold? again, not clear that this is it. we ve never. in this situation before. the constitution doesn t specifically lay out what would constitute a high cri