Seeing as you are regular readers of the Levin Report, we assume that most of you are wealthy individuals with a healthy amount of liquidity to your name who could, if you so chose, make a habit of paying off adult-film stars to keep quiet about alleged affairs. But have you? We ask because according to the current president of the United States, this is a completely commonplace occurrence for “people of wealth,” akin to letting your nanny push the double-wide Bugaboo while you head off to SoulCycle, complaining about the impossibility “of finding good help,” or spending the summer “out east.”

Let’s back up.

Last night on Fox News, in an unintentionally hilarious attempt to clear his client‘s name, our man Rudolph W. L. Giuliani informed host Sean Hannity that not only did Donald Trump know about the hush money lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels, but the president repaid the $130,000. In what appeared to be an (unsuccessful) effort to get Trump off for potential campaign finance violations, Giuliani told Hannity that the whole thing was “perfectly legal” because “they funneled it through a law firm, and the president repaid it.” As my colleague Abigail Tracy points out, it doesn’t actually matter where the money came from—Trump’s own pocket, campaign contributions, or elsewhere—or if it was repaid; if, per the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the money in question was used “for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office,” it’s still a crime! Which made Giuliani’s Thursday morning appearance on Fox & Friends slightly problematic, considering he told the group it was a good thing Cohen made the Daniels story “go away,” as it would have been really bad if “that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton.”

But hey, we’re not here to debate what is or isn’t a federal crime—we’re here to discuss the social mores of the 1 percent. After Giuliani finished his media blitz, Trump logged onto Twitter to inform his followers that despite how things might look, paying porn stars six figures for their silence is standard operating procedure for the rich.

While it’s true that non-disclosure agreements are fairly commonplace for Wall Street employees or household staff who may be privy to their boss’s personal life, they’re typically signed before a person starts a job, rather than after they’ve (allegedly) slept with an adult-film star. (They have also been used in Harvey Weinstein-type situations.) But perhaps we’re wrong! Are private contracts between lawyers of “people of wealth” and the porn stars said wealthy people have allegedly banged totally customary? Do you just assume that all of your fellow rich people have paid someone off to keep a lid on it at least half a dozen times? So far, at least one billionaire has called this custom into question:

But by all means, let us know!