My take on the Cohen/POTUS/Stormy Daniels saga…..POTUS is just a pay-ahead client and that's it
This article indicates POTUS had a retainer agreement with Cohen where POTUS paid $35,000/month…
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/qa-on-stormy-daniels-payment/
Now this article tells the layperson some important details about properly accounting for clients' retainers…
https://www.thebalancesmb.com/common-iolta-mistakes-2151215
To sum it up….POTUS has absolutely nothing to do with Cohen's payments to Stormy Daniels. In layment's terms …POTUS paid Cohen ahead of Cohen providing services. All of the accounting and bookkeeping was Cohen's responsibility and at any given moment he should have been able to tell POTUS his balance of his retainer.