Michael Cohen, corroborating others, says Trump wanted to silence Stormy because of the election

If Michael Cohen’s testimony yesterday had a familiar ring, that’s because his main role at the outset was to confirm the account of the National Enquirer’s publisher.

While there were bits and pieces of news, prosecutors walked through meetings, phone calls, e-mails and texts with Donald Trump and others as he vouched for just about everything David Pecker had told the jury.

But if there’s one line that jumped out at me, it was this: When Trump confided he would soon launch his first campaign in 2015...