This should be obvious based on the in-depth media coverage. If Trump had simply paid Stormy Daniels with his own money and publicly admitted he banged a porn star then he would not have any legal issues. Instead he had his business cover his expense, funneled via his lawyer, misidentified as legal expenses in reimbursements -- all of these are misdemeanors. Now doing this to provide Trump with an advantage in an election upgrades these charges to felonies. As a side note - Can you imagine an HR department in a corporation (the Trump organization is a business corporation) approving business payments funneled via a lawyer as a settlement for an executive banging a porn star and wanting to keep it hidden from public disclosure. Tell me that the HR department would not outright reject doing this knowing the legal ramifications of this type of behavior.