ma machiavelli. the second thing that s so familiar is how inept these folks were when they tried to carry out little schemes like this. once again it just seems like sort of amateurish. if if they were this inept on the small, could they have done larger? cohen was reimbursed on this all cash payment. he was reimbursed by a hand written note, okay, so he didn t have any receipt, right? it was a hand written note and then basically repaid by trump personally. this is according to the wall street journal. this says a lot about cohen s role. and just how seedy the whole operation was. and one thing you can be sure the republicans are going to raise when he testifies publicly is did he get more money from donald trump than he actually turned over to the did he