Hollywood and Beyond Ridicules Trump's Lawyer for Paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 Out of Own Pocket

Twitter's response as Daniels' name once again became a trending topic Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning? "LOL, yeah right."

"Michael Cohen doesn't seem like a very good lawyer," Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter tweeted, while "Westworld" star Jeffrey Wright wanted to know what he paid Daniels for. Former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod tweeted, "I feel like such a fool. My lawyer makes ME pay HIM!"

In a statement to the New York Times on Tuesday night, attorney Michael Cohen claimed, "In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford [Daniels' given name]. Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone."

The statement is worded in such a way as to specify that those two organizations did not reimburse him, but that certainly leaves open the possibility of reimbursement from some other entity, just as Cohen allegedly used an LLC established out of Deleware to make the payment to Daniels. It is also rather vague about who may or may not have known about the transaction, and what the payment was for. All of that gray area let many on Twitter scratching their heads.

Was Cohen just a great guy who wanted to give Daniels some money? Is he the best wingman an aspiring presidential candidate could ever have? Is he so rich he can afford to pay more than $100k to someone who's lying about an affair with his guy? With a great many questions come a great many tweets, and we've gathered some of the best for you below.