If he directed Mr. Cohen to pay it on his behalf, then that could qualify as an illegal, coordinated campaign expenditure, even if Mr. Trump later paid him back.
Vandevelde asked Flanagan if he directed, approved or planned any "phony testing". "No, I did not," Flanagan answered.
But when asked if he directed Cohen to make the 2016 payments to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in order to keep them from going public with alleged extramarital affairs, Trump pinned the blame on Cohen.
If he direct critical hit rockets towards you, it will kill you instantly, and even splash damage from a critical hit rocket will kill you anyway, or leave you with very little health.
If things turn critical, he directs his Treasury Secretary to seize the bank, as authorized by the Dodd-Frank Act.
"Shred it, no save it," he directs, as if ordering from a menu.
If the films he directed really did win over North Korea's population, it's probably because they had to be won over, or else.
He directed (if revisited) just the one, and it ends in 1796 with the 26-year-old Napoleon (Albert Dieudonné) leading the French Army into Italy for what became known as the First Italian Campaign.
His tweets were meant to argue that he didn't specifically direct his former longtime personal attorney Cohen to do anything illegal, even if he did direct the payments.
