The lying about the affair with the porn star is not years before running for office. It’s happening today. The hush agreement providing for the suppression and destruction of evidence was not years before running for office, it was just days before the election.
If the Russian influence claims are dubious then why has the Trump team lied so many times in denying any such connections?
I love the effort to sanitize a tape bragging about sexual assaulting women as mere “locker room” stuff. Bull. Then you same gullibles don’t believe women accusing the President of doing to them exactly what he bragged about doing to women.