This is key.

Pecker killed the Karen McDougal story but was never reimbursed by Cohen and Trump as promised, and Pecker got frustrated.

So when the Stormy Daniels story popped up, Cohen/Trump got desperate.

And that desperation led to the crimes in question.#TrumpTrial pic.twitter.com/Coqwmc04gz

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