Near the end of the 2016 election cycle, most of us condemned Trump's Hollywood Access Tape. Little did we know, that was only the tip of the sexual harassment, misconduct, and other-behavior iceberg.

Recently, a woman by the name of Stormy Daniels has been taking the news and media by (no pun intended) storm. Here's the gist of the situation:

Basically, Daniels and Trump met at (who would have guessed) a golfing tournament and so started the affair. Trump was married to Melania at the time, around the birth of his son Barron.

As the 2016 election cycle was coming to an end, Micheal Cohen (one of Trump's lawyers), paid $130,000 to Daniels in exchange for her silence regarding the affair.

So... in response to all of this, you may be wondering: why should I care? And you bring to the table a valid point. What a president does in their private life (so long as it's legal and consensual), in my opinion, is irrelevant to their performance as a leader. They should be judged by their political, and not personal, actions.

However, what if Cohen is perpetuating fallacious claims? What if his actions were in accordance with the wishes of the Trump campaign? Then, the question shifts from personal pastimes into the murkier, darker realm of legality.

By federal law, a bank has to flag monetary transactions that are either suspicious or have no discernable business or legal purpose. And what do you know? The 130,000 dollar transaction in question was flagged and reported to the Treasury Department.

To worsen matters, though Cohen claims he was not given financial reimbursement for said payment from the Trump Organization or campaign, he did not (and declined to) declare whether or not Trump or any other person in particular reimbursed him.

If Cohen and Trump coordinated their efforts to silence Daniels, then it would violate federal election law.

The word collusion is one that never fails to hover around Trump's actions. First Russia and now this. If the allegations are true, is there anybody with which he did not collude?