Donald Trump, according to under-oath testimony from Michael Cohen, his former attorney and fixer, was worried the story of his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels would be “a disaster for the campaign” and make women hate him.

But even as Trump pondered the potential scandal of a tryst with an adult film star, he was oafish and egotistical enough to say, according to Cohen: “Guys may think it’s cool.”

That comment, which Trump is welcome to deny if he’d like to take the stand and do so under oath, has little, if anything, to do with the core of the case against the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee. The case is about election interference — a hush money payment it is alleged was intended to keep the American people from learning sordid details of a presidential candidate before the election.

But those words — “Guys may think it’s cool”........

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