Question for Q:

It has been eluded to that the Cohen Raid was cover to launder evidence for unrelated things into the investigatory system. Was that whole SD thing conceived for this purpose or was it a real attack being used to our advantage (which the enemy would never expect)? The later seems more likely.

The brainworm that has been bugging me is that detail about Cohen paying her off by taking out a home equity loan. That makes no sense. That only reason I can imagine why the layer would do that, at great legal risk to himself, is if something bad would to happen to him personally if Ms. Clifford didn't get her money. And what lawyer for a billionaire who get paid this kind of retainer doesn't have $130G lying around? People don't normally go and commit bank fraud to float cash for a client while waiting to be reimbursed.

You keep telling us to "Think logically". My logical thinking leads be to suspect that it's actually Cohen who SD and her lawyer were blackmailing:

SD's lawyer finds dirt on Cohen, they approach Cohen with demands that he convince his boss to pay-up for their bs extortion OR ELSE, Trump laughs it off and refuses, this put Cohen in a tight spot, so he tells them he succeeded in convincing Trump to capitulate, but actually pays them his own capital from a home equity line on his own home.

This is the only story I can come up with that fits all the details in a logical way. And him being almost broke (by billionaire-lawyer standards) makes me wonder if they are not the only people to have found that dirt and tried this scheme.

How am I doing?