On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t believe Michael Cohen’s allegations are presidency-altering, “the moral affront is so gigantic.”

Brooks said, “I mean, to me, one of the things about — weird things about our culture is, the president of the United States paid off two porn stars to keep them silent from an affair, and we’re talking about campaign finance. I mean, to me, the moral affront is so gigantic. The legal affront seems to me less. And so, I don’t think that’s the kind of — whether the — whether Michael Cohen fronted him some money to pay off the hush money, that doesn’t strike me as the sort of thing that really alters a presidency. It does open up a lot of legal avenues.”

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