Dear Mr. Trump:

Finally, we see how it worked, thanks to Stormy Daniels’s lawyer.

Mr. Putin, your puppet master, has his friends, the Russian oligarchs, send to your lawyer, Mr. Cohen, $500,000. Call it a “retainer” or “consulting services.” Yeah.

Mr. Cohen, with this slush fund, settles your tawdry “business” problems; in other words, he pays off Stormy Daniels and God-knows-how-many-others.

In “consultation,” Mr. Cohen gets the word of what Mr. Putin wants you to do and whispers it in your ear. Here are the instructions, today, Mr. President, I can hear him saying.

For sure, we all know that Mr. Cohen continued to have contacts with the White House.

The system provides you with the maximum deniability, Sir. Except that you’ve forgotten one thing: no attorney-client privilege exists when the conversation is in furtherance of a crime.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger