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The deal the National Enquirer made for the Playmate’s story is similar. They paid $80,000 or thereabouts, and had her sign an exclusivity agreement for a story they never published. Staff call it a “catch and kill”.
Notice that Cohen doesn’t say that Donald Trump didn’t reimburse him for the payment, just that the Trump campaign didn’t reimburse him.
The publisher of the Enquirer is a friend of Trump’s. The Cohen payment is more troublesome for Trump. The Enquirer is in the business of buying salacious gossip and can reasonable argue they purchased the story in the normal course of business. Cohen has no such excuse.
You might want to take a reading comprehension class, from the OP:
How can something be troublesome when you're not aware of it?“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford,” Cohen told the New York Times, “and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.”
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